Word Summary
sigē: silence
Original Word: σιγήTransliteration: sigē
Phonetic Spelling: (see-gay')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: silence
Meaning: silence
Strong's Concordance
silence.
Apparently from sizo (to hiss, i.e. Hist or hush); silence -- silence. Compare siopao.
see GREEK siopao
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4602: σιγήσιγή,
σιγῆς,
ἡ (from
σίζω (onomatopoetic,
Etym. Magn. 712, 29) i. e. to command silence by making the sound
st or
sch; (yet
σιγή probably has no connection with
σίζω, but is of European origin (cf. German
schweigen); cf.
Fick, Part 3:843;
Curtius, § 572)), from
Homer down,
silence:
Acts 21:40;
Revelation 8:1.