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Lexicon :: Strong's G372 - anapausis

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ἀνάπαυσις
Transliteration
anapausis (Key)
Pronunciation
an-ap'-ow-sis
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:350,56

Trench's Synonyms: xli. ἀνάπαυσις, ἄνεσις.

Strong’s Definitions

ἀνάπαυσις anápausis, an-ap'-ow-sis; from G373; intermission; by implication, recreation:—rest.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's G372 in the following manner: rest (4x), rest (with G2192) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's G372 in the following manner: rest (4x), rest (with G2192) (1x).

  1. intermission, cessation of any motion, business or labour

  2. rest, recreation

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀνάπαυσις anápausis, an-ap'-ow-sis; from G373; intermission; by implication, recreation:—rest.
STRONGS G372:
ἀνάπαυσις, -εως, ἡ, (ἀναπαύω) [from Mimnermus, Pindar down];
1. intermission, cessation, of any motion, business, labor: ἀνάπαυσιν οὐκ ἔχουσι λέγοντες [Rec. λέγοντα] equivalent to οὐκ ἀναπαύονται λέγοντες they incessantly say, Revelation 4:8.
2. rest, recreation: Matthew 12:43; Luke 11:24; Revelation 14:11, (and often in Greek writings); blessed tranquillity of soul, Matthew 11:29, (Sir. 6:[27] 28; Sirach 51:27; Wis. 4:7). [The word denotes a temporary rest, a respite, e. g. of soldiers; cf. Schmidt, chapter 25; Bp. Lightfoot on Philemon 1:7; Trench, § xli.]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
11:29; 12:43
Luke
11:24
Philemon
1:7
Revelation
4:8; 14:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G372 matches the Greek ἀνάπαυσις (anapausis),
which occurs 43 times in 42 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:9 - But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:15 - When he sees how good is his resting place and how pleasant is his land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and submit to forced labor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:23 - He said to them, “This is what the LORD commanded: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of sabbath rest, a holy sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:12 - “Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:15 - For six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:2 - For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a day of sabbath rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it is to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:31 - It is a day of sabbath rest, and you must deny yourselves; it is a lasting ordinance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:3 - “ ‘There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:24 - “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:39 - “ ‘So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the LORD for seven days; the first day is a day of sabbath rest, and the eighth day also is a day of sabbath rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:4 - But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:5 - Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:8 - “ ‘Count off seven sabbath years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:33 - So they set out from the mountain of the LORD and traveled for three days. The ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them during those three days to find them a place to rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:9 - May the LORD grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband.” Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:1 - One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, I must find a home[fn] for you, where you will be well provided for.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:9 - But you will have a son who will be a man of peace and rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. His name will be Solomon,[fn] and I will grant Israel peace and quiet during his reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:2 - King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my fellow Israelites, my people. I had it in my heart to build a house as a place of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, for the footstool of our God, and I made plans to build it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:17 - This happened on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:18 - that you examine them every morning and test them every moment?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:13 - They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:2 - He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:7 - Return to your rest, my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:4 - I will allow no sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:8 - ‘Arise, LORD, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:6 - Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:5 - Though it never saw the sun or knew anything, it has more rest than does that man—

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:17 - The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:10 - In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his resting place will be glorious.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:3 - On the day the LORD gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and from the harsh labor forced on you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:2 - The cities of Aroer will be deserted and left to flocks, which will lie down, with no one to make them afraid.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:12 - He said, “No more of your reveling, Virgin Daughter Sidon, now crushed! “Up, cross over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:13 - Look at the land of the Babylonians,[fn] this people that is now of no account! The Assyrians have made it a place for desert creatures; they raised up their siege towers, they stripped its fortresses bare and turned it into a ruin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:10 - The hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain; but Moab will be trampled in their land as straw is trampled down in the manure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:2 - See, the Lord has one who is powerful and strong. Like a hailstorm and a destructive wind, like a driving rain and a flooding downpour, he will throw it forcefully to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:17 - The fruit of that righteousness will be peace; its effect will be quietness and confidence forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:14 - Desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and wild goats will bleat to each other; there the night creatures will also lie down and find for themselves places of rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:28 - “But I know where you are and when you come and go and how you rage against me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:10 - Sharon will become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds, for my people who seek me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:3 - You said, ‘Woe to me! The LORD has added sorrow to my pain; I am worn out with groaning and find no rest.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:3 - After affliction and harsh labor, Judah has gone into exile. She dwells among the nations; she finds no resting place. All who pursue her have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:10 - Get up, go away! For this is not your resting place, because it is defiled, it is ruined, beyond all remedy.
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