'Silence' in the Bible

The man stared at her in silence, waiting to see whether or not the LORD had made his journey successful.

You shall not go around as a gossip among your people, and you are not to act against the life of your neighbor [with slander or false testimony]; I am the Lord.

And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Keep silence, and hearken, O Israel: this day thou art become the people of Jehovah thy God.

But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail.

Then Saul said, “Come here, all you who are leaders of the people, and let us find out how this sin [causing God’s silence] happened today.

Now the king of Israel said to his servants, “Do you know that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, yet we are still doing nothing to take it from the hand of the king of Aram?”

So the Levites silenced all of the people, saying, "Silence, for this day is holy. Do not be grieved."

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,

Should your babbling put others to silence,so that you can keep on ridiculingwith no one to humiliate you?

"{Let me have silence}, and I myself will speak, and let come over me whatever [may].

Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

"Indeed, I am completely unworthy -- how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself.

“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,Or his mighty strength, or his orderly frame.

Because of Your adversaries,You have established a strongholdfrom the mouths of children and nursing infantsto silence the enemy and the avenger.

My God, I call by day, and Thou answerest not, And by night, and there is no silence to me.

{A Psalm of David.} Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, if thou keep silence toward me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

For the choir director; according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.My soul waits in silence for God only;From Him is my salvation.

My soul, wait in silence for God only,For my hope is from Him.

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. A Song. To Thee, silence -- praise, O God, is in Zion, And to Thee is a vow completed.

You silence the roar of the seas,the roar of their waves,and the tumult of the nations.

{A Song or Psalm of Asaph.} Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

O God of my praise!Do not keep silent,

The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

Whoso is despising his neighbour lacketh heart, And a man of understanding keepeth silence.

Even a fool keeping silence is reckoned wise, He who is shutting his lips intelligent!

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;

At the thunder of your voice, the nations flee; at your silence, the nations scatter.

Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.

“Daughter Chaldea,sit in silence and go into darkness.For you will no longer be called mistress of kingdoms.

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,

And give not silence to Him, Till He establish, and till He make Jerusalem A praise in the earth.

Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue thee.

Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah.

For the Lord is going to devastate Babylon;He will silence her mighty voice.Their waves roar like abundant waters;the tumult of their voice resounds,

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

It is good that one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah.

He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

Therefore, I will bring the worst of the [Gentile] nations, and they will take possession of their houses [those of the people of Judah]; I will also silence their pride, and their holy places will be profaned.

You are to weep in silence, but you are not to participate in mourning rituals. You are to keep your turban on your head and your sandals on your feet. You are not to cover your mouth or eat what your comforters bring to you."

""I'll silence the noise of your songs and the music of your harps won't be heard anymore.

And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee,'saying , Who is there like Tyre, like her that is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

A close relative and burner will remove his corpse from the house. He will call to someone in the inner recesses of the house, “Any more with you?”That person will reply, “None.”Then he will say, “Silence, because Yahweh’s name must not be invoked.”

And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.

Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on mischief: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and keepest silence when the wicked swalloweth up a man more righteous than he?

But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

The people angrily tried to silence them, but they cried all the louder. "O Sir, Son of David, pity us," they said.

But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.

Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority (all power of absolute rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

But Jesus rebuked him: "Silence! Come out of him!"

He asked them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save a life or to kill?” But they kept silent.

He got up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Silence! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

But Jesus rebuked him: "Silence! Come out of him!" Then, after the demon threw the man down in their midst, he came out of him without hurting him.

And as the voice was heard Jesus was found alone: and they kept silence, and told no one in those days any of the things they had seen.

Those in front reproved him and tried to silence him; but he continued shouting, louder than ever, "Son of David, take pity on me."

But he motioned with his hand for silence, and then described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. "Tell all this to James and the brethren," he added. Then he left them, and went to another place.

So Paul rose, and motioning with his hand for silence, said, "Israelites, and you others who fear God, pay attention to me.

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.

Some of the crowd concluded it was because of Alexander, since the Jews had pushed him to the front. So Alexander motioned for silence and tried to make a defense before the people.

And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,

(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)

Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my glad tidings and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, as to which silence has been kept in the times of the ages,

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

But if a revelation be made to another sitting by, let the first keep silence.

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.

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

It is necessary to silence them; they overthrow whole households by teaching what they shouldn’t in order to get money dishonestly.

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.