STRONGS NUMBER G4602


Word Summary
sigē: silence
Original Word: σιγή
Transliteration: 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: σιγή

σιγή, σιγῆς, (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.