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Putting it lightly, the Bible has a lot to say about peace. In fact, in the King James translation, the English word “peace” appears about 470 times, making it one of the most used words in the entirety of the scriptures!
In the Old Testament, some of the usages of “peace” seem more trivial. For example, damam (דָּמַם), has (הָסָה), charash (חָרַשׁ), and chasnah (חָשָׁה) all mean “quiet” and are usually translated as “hold one’s peace” (Genesis 24:21, Exodus 14:14, Leviticus 10:3, Numbers 30:4, Judges 18:19, 1 Samuel 10:27, 2 Samuel 13:20, 2 Kings 18:36, Nehemiah 8:11, Job 11:3, Psalm 39:12, Proverbs 11:12, Isaiah 36:21, Zephaniah 1:7, etc). One interesting use, for example, is Esther 4:14 (ESV), when Mordecai is talking to Esther about the importance of approaching the king in order to save the Jews:
“If you remain silent [charash] at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
The root word shalah (שָׁלָה), meaning “tranquil” or “at ease,” and its forms are used a few times in the Old Testament to describe a peaceful land (1 Chronicles 4:40) and the act of an ambush—that is, striking during a peaceful time (Daniel 8:25 and 11:21-24).
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