Still (Hastings' Dictionary)

1. As adj.: the general meaning is silent, as Ps 40" 'Be still' (52-i.i, RVm 'Let be,' LXX ffxoXdffore); Ps 83' 'Be not still, O God'; Is 42''' ' I have been still, and refrained myself ; now will I cry ' ; Mk 4" ' Peace, be still ' lir«j>i/iuao, lit. ' be muzzled '). Cf. Ac 18" Wye. ' Speke and be not stille' [fxit o-iuTr^a-ps). Or it means a low sound, as 1 K I'J'- 'A still small voice' (n??'i S'lp r:;:-\, lit. as RVm ' a sound of gentle stillness,' LXX (pufT) aOpas XeTTTTJs) ; Ps 23- ' He leadclh me beside the still waters' (nra;:p ■="''1', RVm 'waters of rest,' LXX ^iri vSaToi di/aTroi'fff us : the idea is 'waters that refresh,' or 'waters that are resting-places' [Del., Cheyne], not 'softly flowing waters as in Is 8"). From meaning 'silent' the word passes naturally to mean inavlive,, as Jg 18" 'Are ye still? be not slothful to go' ; 1 K'22^ ' Know ye not that Ramoth in Gilcad is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?' 2. As .adv.: the idea of persistence is more pro- minent than in modern usage. Cf. Il:ill, Works, ii. 14, 'God u.ses still to goe a way by himselfe' ; Adams, 2 Peter, ]i. 40, ' If the hand be still striking and stabbing, tlicre is a bloody heart'; Shaks. hamlet, II. ii. 42— ' Thou still hast been the outhor o( good tidings.' So 1 S 26-^ ' Thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail ' ; 2 S 16' ' He came forth, and cursed still as he came ' ; Ps 84 ' They will be still praising thee'; and Jer '23" 'They say still unto them that despise mo' (RV ' They say con- tinuiilly'). J. Hastings.