Topic
Still
10 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Judges 18:9ISBE
And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
- 1 Kings 19:12ISBE
And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
- 1 Kings 22:3ISBE
And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?
- 2 Chronicles 22:9ISBE
And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of…
- Job 4:16ISBE
It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
- Psalms 4:4ISBE
Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
- Psalms 23:2ISBE
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
- Psalms 46:10ISBE
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
- Psalms 107:29ISBE
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
- Zechariah 1:11ISBE
And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 10 references
stil: "To be still" is "to keep silence" (Ps 4:4, etc.) and so "to be quiet" (Ps 107:29, etc.) or "inactive" in any way (Jud 18:9; 1Ki 22:3; Zec 1:11, etc.). So "be still" in Ps 46:10 means "desist from your war" (compare the Revised Version margin "let be"). The "still small voice" of 1Ki 19:12 (the Revised Version margin "sound of gentle stillness") is due to taking the Hebrew demamah in its literal force of "silent," but the word here means "whisper"--"a whispering, little voice." This familiar passage, however, has made "still voice" good English, and the combination is used in Job 4:16 by the Revised Version margin. In Ps 23:2 the translation "still waters" takes "waters of rest" (so literally for menuchah; compare the Revised Version margin) to mean "waters with little motion." But the meaning is either "wells by which the flocks rest" or "wells that give refreshing water." As an adverb "still" is perhaps more emphatic than in modern English; compare "power to keep still the kingdom," 2Ch 22:9 the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) "to hold the kingdom").
Burton Scott Easton
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.