cha.shah denotes keeping quiet or withholding response, and in calls to action can describe doing nothing or delaying.

The dominant attested use concerns keeping quiet, whether people are commanded not to speak, a speaker refuses silence, or quietness marks a restrained response or a calmed storm. In two exhortations to advance, the same form occurs where the APB describes doing nothing or being slow to act.

1. Keeping quiet or withholding a response · dominant

   Plural imperatives in 2 Kings 2:3 and 2 Kings 2:5 answer the prophets' report with a command that the APB renders "be silent." In Isaiah 62:1, a first-person singular imperfect is negated as the speaker says, "I will not keep silent," while Isaiah 42:14 presents a first-person perfect in a statement of having "kept silent" and restrained oneself. Psalm 107:29 applies the quieting language to the tempest, whose waves are rendered "hushed."

   2 Kings 2:32 Kings 2:5Isaiah 42:14Isaiah 62:1Psalm 107:29Nehemiah 8:11
2. Doing nothing or delaying action · occasional

   In 1 Kings 22:3, a masculine plural active participle occurs as the king asks why his servants "do nothing" to recover Ramoth Gilead. Judges 18:9 uses the same participial form in an appeal not to be slow but to go and take possession of the land.

   1 Kings 22:3Judges 18:9

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB uses "be silent," "keep silent," "remain quiet," and "hushed" for clauses involving quietness; it also uses "do nothing" and "slow" in the two action-oriented appeals. Because the APB translates whole verses rather than aligning individual words, these renderings show the clauses' presentation rather than fixed one-to-one equivalents.