παύω pauō

Greek word for “to cease” · Strong’s G3973 · used 15 times in 15 verses

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Meaning

παύω; to make to cease, restrain, hinder: with accusative of thing(s), before ἀπό (LXX).

How it is translated

Glosses given for pauō in context, with how often each is used:

• ceased 3
• ceasing 2
• left off 1
• does stop 1
• will you cease 1
• stopped 1
• will cease 1
• do cease 1
• cease 1
• have ceased 1
• should keep 1
• has himself done 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Acts 20 (2), Luke 5 (1), Luke 8 (1), Luke 11 (1), Acts 5 (1), Acts 6 (1), Acts 13 (1), Acts 21 (1), 1 Corinthians 13 (1), Ephesians 1 (1)

Forms

• ἐπαύσαντο 3
• ἐπαύσατο 2
• ἐπαύοντο 1
• παύεται 1
• παύσῃ 1
• παύσασθαι 1
• ἐπαυσάμην 1
• παύσονται 1
• παύομαι 1
• παυόμεθα 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with pauō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• δόλος dolos “deceit” 2
• ἡμέρα hēmera “day” 4
• γλῶσσα glōssa “tongue” 2
• λαλέω laleō “to speak” 3
• προσεύχομαι proseuchomai “to pray” 2
• τόπος topos “place” 2
• διδάσκω didaskō “to teach” 2
• ὑπέρ huper “above/for” 2
• ἁμαρτία hamartia “sin” 2
• Παῦλος Paulos “Paul” 2
• τε te “and/both” 2
• μαθητής mathētēs “disciple” 2

Key verses

The verses using pauō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Luke 8:24 — And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and…
• Luke 11:1 — And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also…
• Acts 5:42 — And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
• Acts 6:13 — And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
• Acts 13:10 — And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of…
• Acts 20:1 — And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.
• Acts 20:31 — Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
• 1 Corinthians 13:8 — Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall…
• Ephesians 1:16 — Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
• Colossians 1:9 — For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all…
• 1 Peter 3:10 — For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
• 1 Peter 4:1 — Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.