Strong's G4601 σιγάω (sigao)

The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

Because I kept silence, my bones waxed old, From my crying all the day.

I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good words; And my grief was renewed.

These things thou didst, and I kept silence: Thou thoughtest wickedly that I should be like thee; But I will reprove thee, and set thine offenses before thee.

O God, who shall be compared to thee? Be not silent, neither be still, O God.

And he commands the storm, and it is calmed into a gentle breeze, And its waves are still.

A time to rend, and a time to sew; A time to be silent, and a time to speak;

And they shall no more at all tell a fool to rule, and thy servants shall no more at all say, Be silent.

Mine eye is drowned with tears, And I will not be silent, So that there shall be no rest,

But a remnant shall be left behind, and their relations shall take them, and shall strenuously endeavor to carry forth their bones from the house: and one shall say to the heads of the house, Is there yet anyone else with thee? And he shall say, No one else. And the other shall say, Be silent, that thou name not the name of the Lord.

And when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone. And they kept it close, and told no man in those days any of those things which they had seen.

And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.

But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place.

Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.

And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:

Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,

But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.

O ye men, is not wine the strongest, that enforceth to do thus? And when he had so spoken, he held his peace.

O ye men, how should not the king be mightiest, when in such sort he is obeyed? And he held his tongue.

To whom Tobit said, Hold thy peace, take no care, for he is safe.

But she said, Hold thy peace, and deceive me not; my son is dead. And she went out every day into the way which they went, and did eat no meat in the daytime, and ceased not whole nights to bewail her son Tobias, until the fourteen days of the wedding were expired, which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there. Then Tobias said to Raguel,

Also they told the king whatsoever Jonathan had done, to the intent he might blame him: but the king held his peace.

When I hold my tongue, they shall bide my leisure, And when I speak, they shall give good ear unto me: If I talk much, they shall lay their hands upon their mouth.

When a rich man speaketh, every man holdeth his tongue, And, look, what he saith, they extol it to the clouds: But if the poor man speak, they say, What fellow is this? And if he stumble, they will help to overthrow him.

A wise man will hold his tongue till he see opportunity: But a babbler and a fool will regard no time.