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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Silent

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Silent

SI'LENT, adjective

1. Not speaking; mute. Psalms 22:2.

2. Habitually taciturn; speaking little; not inclined to much talking; not loquacious. Ulysses, he adds was the most eloquent and most silent of men.

3. Still; having not noise; as the silent watches of the night; the silent groves; all was silent

4. Not operative; wanting efficacy.

5. Not mentioning; not proclaiming. This new created world, of which in hell Fame is not silent

6. Calm; as, the winds were silent

7. Not acting; not transacting business in person; as a silent partner in a commercial house.

8. Hot pronounced; having no sound; as, e is silent in fable.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Silentiary

SILEN'TIARY, noun One appointed to keep silence and order in court; one sworn not to divulge secrets of state.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Silently

SI'LENTLY, adverb

1. Without speech or words. Each silently demands thy grace, and seems to watch thy eye.

2. without noise; as, to march silently

3. Without mention. He mentioned other difficulties, but this he silently passed over.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Silentness

SI'LENTNESS, noun State of being silent; stillness; silence.