shavach · praise, still

What it means

shavach (שָׁבַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “praise, still”.

To praise, to celebrate: to speak with praise of someone or something; in other passages, to calm, to quiet.

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 say aloud how great and good someone is, giving him honor.
2. To quiet the sea or anger.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• Celebrate ×2
• glory ×2
• praised ×2
• calms it ×1
• extol him ×1
• still them ×1
• who stills ×1
• will extol you ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×7
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×2

• 1 Chronicles 16:35

  And say, ‘Save us, Elohim of our salvation; gather us and deliver us from the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to glory in your praise.’

• Psalms 63:3

  For better is your loyal love than life; my lips will extol you.

• Psalms 65:7

  who stills the roar of the seas, the roar of their waves, and the commotion of the peoples.

• Psalms 89:9

  You rule the pride of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them.

• Psalms 106:47

  Save us, YHWH our Elohim, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to glory in your praise.

• Psalms 117:1

  Praise YHWH, all nations; extol him, all peoples.

• Psalms 145:4

  Generation to generation will celebrate your works, and your mighty deeds they will declare.

• Psalms 147:12

  Celebrate, Jerusalem, YHWH; praise your Elohim, Zion.

• Proverbs 29:11

  All his spirit the senseless man lets out, but the wise calms it back.

• Ecclesiastes 4:2

  And I praised the dead who have already died more than the living who are still alive;

• Ecclesiastes 8:15

  And I praised joy, because there is no good for the human being under the sun except to eat and to drink and to rejoice, and this will accompany him in his toil through the days of his life which Elohim has given him under the sun.