shakat · be at rest, be quiet

What it means

shakat (שָׁקַט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be at rest, be quiet”.

Without war or alarm.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To be at peace, without war, or motionless.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• be quiet ×8
• was quiet ×6
• quiet ×4
• still ×4
• was calm ×4
• rest ×3
• became calm ×2
• been calm ×2
• quietness ×2
• against those at ease ×1
• others ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Joshua×2
• Judges×6
• Ruth×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×5
• Job×4
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×7
• Jeremiah×6
• Ezekiel×3
• Zechariah×1

• Joshua 11:23

  So Joshua took all the land, according to all that YHWH had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land became calm from war.

• Joshua 14:15

  Now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba; he was the greatest man among the Anakim. And the land became calm from war.

• Judges 3:11

  The land was calm forty years. Then Othniel son of Kenaz died.

• Judges 3:30

  So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel, and the land was calm eighty years.

• Judges 5:31

  So may all your enemies perish, YHWH! But may those who love him be like the going out of the sun in its strength.” And the land was calm forty years.

• Judges 8:28

  So Midian was subdued before the sons of Israel, and they did not again lift up their head; and the land was calm forty years in the days of Gideon.

• Judges 18:7

  So the five men went and came to Laish, and they saw the people who were in it, living in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, at rest and secure; and there was no one in the land putting them to shame in anything, no one possessing authority; and they were far from the Sidonians, and they had no dealings with anyone.

• Judges 18:27

  And they took what Micah had made, and the priest who had been his, and came upon Laish, upon a people at rest and secure, and struck them with the edge of the sword, and the city they burned with fire.

• Ruth 3:18

  She said, “Sit, my daughter, until you know how the matter falls out; for the man will not be at rest until he has finished the matter today.”

• 2 Kings 11:20

  All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet; and Athaliah they had put to death with the sword at the house of the king.

• 1 Chronicles 4:40

  And they found rich and good pasture, and the land was broad, quiet, and peaceful, for those who lived there before were from Ham.

• 2 Chronicles 14:1

  Abijah lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land was quiet ten years.

• 2 Chronicles 14:5

  He removed from all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars; and the kingdom was quiet before him.

• 2 Chronicles 14:6

  He built fortified cities in Judah, for the land was quiet, and there was no war against him in those years, because YHWH had given him rest.

• 2 Chronicles 20:30

  The kingdom of Jehoshaphat was quiet, and his Elohim gave him rest all around.

• 2 Chronicles 23:21

  All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet; and Athaliah they had put to death with the sword.

• Job 3:13

  For now I would have lain down and been calm; I would have slept; then I would have rest

• Job 3:26

  I have not been at ease, nor been calm, nor rested, and turmoil has come.”

• Job 34:29

  And when he gives quiet, who can declare him wicked? And when he hides his face, who can perceive him? So it is over a nation and over a human being alike,

• Job 37:17

  You whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind,

• Psalms 76:8

  From the heavens you made judgment heard; the earth feared and was still,

• Psalms 83:1

  A song. A psalm of Asaph. Elohim, do not keep silent; do not be mute, and do not be still, El.

• Psalms 94:13

  to give him calm from the days of evil, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

• Proverbs 15:18

  A man of wrath stirs up strife, but one who is slow to anger calms a dispute.

• Isaiah 7:4

  and say to him, ‘Be careful and keep calm; do not fear, and do not let your heart grow faint because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, at the burning of the anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.

• Isaiah 14:7

  The whole earth is at rest, is quiet; they break out into joyful shouting.

• Isaiah 18:4

  For thus YHWH said to me: “I will be still and look from my dwelling place, like dazzling heat over the light, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

• Isaiah 30:15

  For thus says Adonai YHWH, the Holy One of Israel: “In returning and rest you will be saved; in quietness and in trust will be your might.” But you were not willing,

• Isaiah 32:17

  And the work of righteousness will be peace, and the labor of righteousness, quietness and security forever.

• Isaiah 57:20

  But the wicked are like the tossing sea, for it cannot be quiet, and its waters toss up mire and mud.

• Isaiah 62:1

  For the sake of Zion I will not keep silent, and for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes out like brightness, and her salvation like a torch that burns.

• Jeremiah 30:10

  And you, do not fear, my servant Jacob, declares YHWH, and do not be dismayed, Israel; for look, I am saving you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity; and Jacob will return and be quiet and at ease, and there will be no one to make him afraid.

• Jeremiah 46:27

  But you, do not fear, my servant Jacob, and do not be dismayed, Israel; for look, I am saving you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity; and Jacob will return, and be quiet and at ease, and there will be no one to make him afraid.

• Jeremiah 47:6

  Ah, sword of YHWH! How long will you not be quiet? Withdraw into your sheath; rest and be still!

• Jeremiah 47:7

  How can you be quiet, when YHWH has given it orders? Against Ashkelon and against the shore of the sea, there he has appointed it.

• Jeremiah 48:11

  Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has rested quietly on his lees, and he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, and into exile he has not gone; therefore his taste has remained in him, and his scent has not changed.

• Jeremiah 49:23

  Concerning Damascus. Hamath is put to shame, and Arpad, for a bad report they have heard; they melt away; in the sea there is anxiety; it cannot be quiet.

• Ezekiel 16:42

  And I will make my fury rest on you, and my jealousy will turn away from you, and I will be quiet and will no longer be provoked.

• Ezekiel 16:49

  Look, this was the iniquity of Sodom your sister: pride, fullness of bread, and careless ease were hers and her daughters’, but the hand of the poor and the needy she did not strengthen.

• Ezekiel 38:11

  and you will say, “I will go up against a land of unwalled towns; I will come against those at ease, who live securely, all of them living without wall, and bar and doors they do not have,”

And 1 more times.