'Answer' in the Bible

Then he said to Gehazi, "Gird up your loins and take my staff in your hand and go. If you meet anyone, you must not greet them; if anyone greets you, you must not answer them. You must put my staff on the face of the boy."

The people were silent, and they did not answer him a word, for the command of that king was saying, "You shall not answer him."