'Silence' in the Bible

Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, "Keep silence, and listen, Israel: this day you have become the people of Yahweh your God.

But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, "I have a secret errand to you, king." The king said, "Keep silence!" All who 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 no man shall prevail by strength.

It stood still, but I couldn't discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

"Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door --

"I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

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

The dead don't praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

"Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.

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

Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.

The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

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. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you.

Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh of Armies.

Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all her men of war will be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh.

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

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

In their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, [saying], Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?

The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," says the Lord Yahweh. "The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. When there was a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying,

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.