36 occurrences in 13 translations

'Quietly' in the Bible

"Your own blood brother, your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your friend who is like your soul mate may entice you quietly. He may tell you, "Let's go and serve other gods,' (whom neither you nor your ancestors have known

Verse ConceptsSecrecyEnticersUnknown GodsDifferent GodsEncouraged To Serve Foreign godsShow No MercyMothers Love For Her ChildrenSiblingsMothers And SonsDeath Of A Motheratheism

But Heber's wife Jael grabbed a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other, crept up to him quietly, and drove the tent peg right through his temple into the ground below after he had fallen sound asleep from exhaustion. That's how he died.

Verse ConceptsTentsTirednessHammersNailsPegsSharp ToolsTired In FlightKilling Named Individuals

And the king of the children of Ammon said to the men sent by Jephthah, Because Israel, when he came up out of Egypt, took away my land, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and as far as Jordan: so now, give me back those lands quietly.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsArnon

When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded the place and waited in ambush for him all that night at the city gate. While they were waiting quietly, they said, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”

Verse ConceptsDawnWaitingAmbushActing All NightAttempting To Kill Specific People

And they took that which Micah had made, and his priest, and came to Laish, to a people living quietly and without thought of danger, and they put them to the sword without mercy, burning down their town.

Verse ConceptsConflagrationsBurning CitiesMen Of Peace

After Boaz had finished eating and drinking to his heart's content, he went over and lay down next to the pile of threshed grain. Ruth came in quietly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.

Verse ConceptsAlcohol ConsumptionLying Down To RestEating And Drinking

David's men said to him, "This is the day about which the Lord said to you, 'I will give your enemy into your hand, and you can do to him whatever seems appropriate to you.'" So David got up and quietly cut off an edge of Saul's robe.

Verse ConceptsGiven Into One's Handssaul

Now go back quietly and you won’t be doing anything the Philistine leaders think is wrong.”

But when David saw that his servants were talking together quietly, he was certain that the child was dead: and he said to his servants, Is the child dead? and they said, He is.

Verse ConceptsClothing, Kinds OfFaintnessDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsUnder One's Breath

Then I'll bring everybody else back to you. When the man you're looking for is dead, all the rest of the people will return quietly."

Verse ConceptsReinstating People

So they returned to the city quietly that day like people come in when they are humiliated after fleeing in battle.

Verse ConceptsHiding From People

Now when Ahab heard these words [of Elijah], he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted, and he lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly (mourning).

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesGesturesClothAsceticism, TypesRegretRepentance, Examples OfSackcloth And AshesAfflictions Of The WickedConviction Of SinThose Who Tore ClothesDepression

My soul rests quietly only when it looks to God; from him comes my deliverance.

Verse ConceptsRestlessnessPeople Being SilentGod My SalvationThose Who Wait For GodMothers Death

When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.

Verse ConceptsDarkness Of NightProvision Of Night

The words of the wise which come quietly to the ear are noted more than the cry of a ruler among the foolish.

Verse ConceptsNo ShoutingFaintnessFools

For, the Lord said to me:I will quietly look out from My place,like shimmering heat in sunshine,like a rain cloud in harvest heat.

Verse ConceptsdewHeatHoly Spirit, Types OfHot WeatherGod Seeing All The EarthHerbsSunshine

Come quietly before me, O sea-lands, and let the peoples get together their strength: let them come near; then let them say what they have to say: let us put forward our cause against one another.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual RenewalIslandsGod Giving StrengthGod Gives StrengthPay Attention To God!Renewal

And all the princes came to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. And they withdrew quietly from him; for the matter was not reported.

Verse ConceptsInterrogatingUnhearing

Groan quietly; do not observe mourning rites for the dead. Put on your turban and strap your sandals on your feet; do not cover your mustache or eat the bread of mourners.”

Verse ConceptsCustomFeetBereavement, Expression OfHead coveringCovering The MouthSandalsTraditionsVeilsDressShoesClothing OneselfHeadgearFacial HairSilenceEating Forbidden Food

You will say, "I will invade a land of unwalled towns; I will advance against those living quietly in security -- all of them living without walls and barred gates --

Verse ConceptsFortificationsVillagesWalled TownsUnguardedEzekiel Invasion

'And stood up on his station hath a despicable one, and they have not given unto him the honour of the kingdom, and he hath come in quietly, and hath strengthened the kingdom by flatteries.

Verse Conceptsroyalty

I heard, and I trembled within;my lips quivered at the sound.Rottenness entered my bones;I trembled where I stood.Now I must quietly wait for the day of distressto come against the people invading us.

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanLegsLipsWaitingPeople RottingIndividuals TremblingBonesSoundPeople WaitingNations Attacking IsraelHealing CancerNatural Disasters

And Joseph her [promised] husband, being a just and righteous man and not wanting to expose her publicly to shame, planned to send her away and divorce her quietly.

Verse ConceptsFalse Accusations, Examples OfAdultery and DivorceLove, In RelationshipsQuietnessActing In SecretNot Put To ShamePeople UnwillingActual DivorcesResolving Conflict

and when they came to Jesus, they beheld the demoniac quietly seated, clothed and of sane mind--the man who had had the legion; and they were awe-stricken.

Verse ConceptsExorcismsevil, victory overDemons, Delivered FromFear, Caused ByLiving WitnessesNakednessClothing OneselfDrawing Near To ChristSitting At The FeetRegaining SanityFear Of ChristThose Demonised

Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away [unnoticed] since there was a crowd in that place.

Verse ConceptsCrowdsCrowds Around JesusNot Knowing About ChristHealing Sickness

But [afterward], when His brothers had gone up to the feast, He went up too, not publicly [with a caravan], but quietly [because He did not want to be noticed].

Verse ConceptsActing In SecretFestivals ObservedHalf brothers

Now we command and exhort such people by the Lord Jesus Christ that quietly working, they may eat their own food.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Stewardship OfQuietnessPhysical LabourDoing One's WorkMen's OrdersMen Working

Bible Theasaurus

Quietly (36 instances)
Softly (13 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּוּמם 
Duwmam 
Usage: 3

דּמם 
Damam 
Usage: 30

מנחה מנוּחה 
M@nuwchah 
Usage: 21

נוּח 
Nuwach 
Usage: 144

נחת 
Nachath 
Usage: 8

שׁאן 
Sha'an 
at ease , quiet , rest
Usage: 5

שׁאנן 
Sha'anan 
Usage: 10

שׁלוה שׁליו שׁלו 
Shalev 
Usage: 8

שׁלוה 
Shalvah 
Usage: 8

שׁלי 
Sh@liy 
Usage: 1

שׁקט 
Shaqat 
Usage: 41

שׁקט 
Sheqet 
Usage: 1

שׁתק 
Shathaq 
Usage: 4

εἰρήνη 
Eirene 
Usage: 71

ἤρεμος 
Eremos 
Usage: 1

ἡσυχάζω 
hesuchazo 
Usage: 5

ἡσυχία 
hesuchia 
Usage: 4

ἡσύχιος 
hesuchios 
Usage: 2

καταστέλλω 
Katastello 
Usage: 2

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