sha.vach describes calming or restraining, most clearly the wise handling of a fool’s spirit.

The clearest use concerns calming or holding back a fool’s spirit in Proverbs 29:11. Its Psalm occurrences stand in clauses the APB renders with joyful outgoings and with crushing and scattering enemies, but the translation does not isolate this verb’s contribution closely enough to establish further distinctions.

1. Calming or restraint · dominant

   In Proverbs 29:11, the Piel imperfect contrasts the fool who brings out all his spirit with the wise person; the APB renders the latter action, “the wise soothes it behind.” Psalm 65:8 and Psalm 89:10 use other verbal forms in clauses rendered respectively with morning and evening shouting for joy and with crushing Rahab and scattering enemies and does not support a more specific separate use.

   Proverbs 29:11Psalm 65:8Psalm 89:10

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB plainly presents the Proverbs 29:11 clause as “the wise soothes it behind.” In Psalm 65:8 and Psalm 89:10, its whole-verse renderings instead describe joyful outgoings and the crushing and scattering of enemies; Those phrases cannot be assigned directly to this verb.