Lexical Summary hēsychios: tranquil Original Word: ἡσύχιοςTransliteration: hēsychios Phonetic Spelling: (hay-soo'-khee-os) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: tranquil Meaning: tranquil Strong's Concordance peaceable, quiet. A prolonged form of a compound probably of a derivative of the base of hedraios and perhaps echo; properly, keeping one's seat (sedentary), i.e. (by implication) still (undisturbed, undisturbing) -- peaceable, quiet. see GREEK hedraios see GREEK echo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2272: ἡσύχιοςἡσύχιος, ἡσυχία, ἡσύχιον ((perhaps akin to ἧμαι to sit, Latinsedatus; cf. Curtius, § 568; Vanicek, p. 77)); from Homer down; quiet, tranquil: 1 Peter 3:4; βίος, 1 Timothy 2:2; Josephus, Antiquities 13, 16, 1. |