Dictionaries :: Peace (Hold One's)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Peace (Hold One's):

signifies

(a), used intransitively, "to be silent" (from sige, "silence"), translated "to hold one's peace," in Luk 9:36; 18:39; 20:26; Act 12:17; 15:13 (in Act 15:12, "kept silence;" similarly rendered in 1Cr 14:28, 30, AV, "hold his peace," 1Cr 14:34);

(b) used transitively, "to keep secret;" in the Passive Voice, "to be kept secret," Rom 16:25, RV, "hath been kept in silence."
See SECRET, SILENCE.

Peace (Hold One's):

"to be silent or still, to keep silence" (from siope, "silence"), is translated "to hold one's peace," in Mat 20:31; 26:63; Mar 3:4; 9:34; 10:48; 14:61; Luk 19:40; Act 18:9; in the Lord's command to the sea, in Mar 4:39, it is translated "peace" (for the next word "be still" see No. 4); in Luk 1:20, RV, "thou shalt be silent" (AV, "dumb").
See DUMB, B.

Peace (Hold One's):

signifies "to be still;" it is used of "holding one's peace," being "silent," Luk 14:4; Act 11:18; 21:14, "we ceased."
See CEASE, A, No. 3, QUIET.

Peace (Hold One's):

"to muzzle," is used metaphorically in the Passive Voice, in Mar 1:25; Luk 4:35, "hold thy peace;" in Mar 4:39, "be still."
See MUZZLE.