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Lexicon :: Strong's G3973 - pauō

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παύω
Transliteration
pauō (Key)
Pronunciation
pow'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A root verb ("pause")
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Strong’s Definitions

παύω paúō, pow'-o; a primary verb ("pause"); to stop (transitively or intransitively), i.e. restrain, quit, desist, come to an end:—cease, leave, refrain.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's G3973 in the following manner: cease (12x), leave (2x), refrain (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's G3973 in the following manner: cease (12x), leave (2x), refrain (1x).
  1. to make to cease or desist

  2. to restrain a thing or person from something

  3. to cease, to leave off

  4. have got release from sin

    1. no longer stirred by its incitements and seductions

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
παύω paúō, pow'-o; a primary verb ("pause"); to stop (transitively or intransitively), i.e. restrain, quit, desist, come to an end:—cease, leave, refrain.
STRONGS G3973:
παύω: 1 aorist imperative 3 person singular παυσάτω (1 Peter 3:10); middle, present παύομαι; imperfect ἐπαυομην; future παύσομαι (see ἀναπαύω and ἐπαναπαύω (and on the forms παηναι etc. cf. futher Hilgenfeld, Hermae Pastor, edition alt. proleg., p. xviii, note, also his edition of the 'Teaching' 4, 2 [ET] note (p. 97))); perfect πεπαυμαι; 1 aorist ἐπαυσάμην; from Homer down; to make to cease or desist: τί or τινα ἀπό τίνος, to restrain (A. V. refrain) a thing or a person from something, 1 Peter 3:10, from Psalm 33:14 (Psalms 34:14); cf. Winers Grammar, § 30, 6; ((cf. 326 (305)): R. § 132, 5). Middle, the Sept. for חָדַל, כָּלָה, שָׁבַת, etc. to cease, leave off, (cf. Winer's Grammar, 253 (238)): Luke 8:24; Acts 20:1; 1 Corinthians 13:8; the action or state desisted from is indicated by the addition of a present participle (cf. Matthiae, § 551 d.; Passow, under the word, II. 3; (Liddell and Scott, I. 4); Winers Grammar, § 45, 4; (Buttmann, § 144,15)): ἐπαύσατο λαλῶν, Luke 5:4 (Genesis 18:33; Numbers 16:31; Deuteronomy 20:9); add, Acts 5:42; Acts 6:13; Acts 13:10; Acts 20:31; Acts 21:32; Ephesians 1:16; Colossians 1:9; Hebrews 10:2; the participle is lacking, as being evident from the context, Luke 11:1. Passive (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 39, 3 and N. 3) πέπαυται ἁμαρτίας, hath got release (A. V. hath ceased) from sin, i. e. is no longer stirred by its incitements and seductions, 1 Peter 4:1; cf. Kypke, Observations, at the passage, and Winers Grammar, as above; (Buttmann, § 132, 5; but WH text ἁμαρτίαις, dative, unto sins. Compare: ἀναπαύω, ἐπαναπαύω, συναναπαύω (συναναπαύομαι), καταπαύω).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
18:33
Numbers
16:31
Deuteronomy
20:9
Psalms
33:14; 34:14
Luke
5:4; 8:24; 11:1
Acts
5:42; 6:13; 13:10; 20:1; 20:31; 21:32
1 Corinthians
13:8
Ephesians
1:16
Colossians
1:9
Hebrews
10:2
1 Peter
3:10; 3:10; 4:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3973 matches the Greek παύω (pauō),
which occurs 60 times in 57 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 11:8–Jer 26:13)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8 - So Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:33 - And as soon as He had finished speaking to Abraham, Yahweh departed, and Abraham returned to his place.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:14 - now may it be that the young woman to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar so that I may drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I will give water to your camels to drink also’—may she be the one whom You have decided for Your servant Isaac; and by this I will know that You have shown lovingkindness to my master.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:19 - Now when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will draw also for your camels until they have finished drinking.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:22 -

Now it happened that when the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a [fn]half-shekel and two bracelets for her [fn]wrists weighing ten shekels in gold,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:30 -

Now it happened that as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had hardly gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:28 - “Entreat Yahweh, for God’s [fn]thunder and hail are too much; and I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:29 - And Moses said to him, “As soon as I go out of the city, I will spread out my [fn]hands to Yahweh; the [fn]thunder will cease, and there will be hail no longer, that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:33 - And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread out his [fn]hands to Yahweh; and the [fn]thunder and the hail ceased, and rain [fn]no longer poured on the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:34 - But Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the [fn]thunder had ceased. So he sinned again and [fn]hardened his heart with firmness, he and his servants.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:17 - “It is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12 - “Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, ‘With evil intent He brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your burning anger and relent concerning doing harm to Your people.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:31 -

And it happened that as he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open;

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:10 - But Yahweh said to Moses, “Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony [fn]to be kept as a sign against the [fn]rebels, that you may put an end to their grumblings against Me, so that they will not die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:8 - and he went after the man of Israel into the [fn]tent and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman, through the [fn]body. Then the plague on the sons of Israel was checked.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:9 - “Now it will be that when the officers have finished speaking to the people, they shall appoint commanders of armies at the head of the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:26 -

‘I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;

I will cause the memory of them to cease from men,”

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:26 - Then they raised over him a great heap of stones that stands to this day, and Yahweh turned from His burning anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the valley of [fn]Achor to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:24 -

Now it happened that when Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them fell by the edge of the sword until they were completely destroyed, then all Israel turned back to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:24 -

Now behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him carrying the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God, and Abiathar came up until all the people had finished passing from the city.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:22 - Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the [fn]site of this threshing floor, that I may build on it an altar to Yahweh; for the full price you shall give it to me, that the plague may be checked from being upon the people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:1 -

Now it happened on the third day, that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s house in front of the king’s [fn]rooms, and the king was sitting on his royal throne in the [fn]throne room, opposite the entrance to his house.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:7 -

“My soul refuses to touch them;

They are like loathsome food to me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:26 -

“Do you think to reprove my words,

Or think of the words of one in despair as wind?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:13 -

“Oh that You would conceal me in Sheol,

That You would hide me until Your anger returns to You,

That You would set a limit for me and remember me!

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:2 -

“How long until you put an end to your words?

Show understanding and then we can talk.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:9 -

“The princes stopped talking

And put their hands on their mouths;

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:40 -

Let briars come out instead of wheat,

And stinkweed instead of barley.”

The words of Job are ended.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:19 -

“Make us know what we shall say to Him;

We cannot arrange our case because of darkness.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:1 -

Then Yahweh answered Job out of the [fn]whirlwind and said,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:13 -

Nun

Guard your tongue from evil

And your lips from speaking deceit.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:8 -

He

Cease from anger and forsake wrath;

Do not fret; it leads only to evildoing.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:18 -

The cast lot puts an end to contentions

And [fn]decides between the mighty ones.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:1 -

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the [fn]oracle.

The man declares to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal:

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:16 -

“Wash yourselves, purify yourselves;

Remove the evil of your deeds from before My eyes.

Cease to do evil,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:24 -

Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of hosts,

The Mighty One of Israel, declares,

“Ah, I will be comforted concerning My adversaries,

And I will avenge Myself on My enemies.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:25 - “For in a very little while My indignation against you will end and My anger will be directed to their destruction.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:10 -

Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful orchard;

In the vineyards also there will be no cries of joy or shouts of jubilation,

No treader treads out wine in the presses,

For I have made the shouting to cease.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:8 -

The joy of tambourines ceases;

The rumbling of those exulting stops;

The joy of the harp ceases.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:11 -

There is an outcry in the streets concerning the wine;

All gladness [fn]turns to gloom.

The joy of the earth is taken away into exile.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:13 -

For thus it will be in the midst of the earth among the peoples,

As the [fn]shaking of an olive tree,

As the gleanings when the grape harvest is over.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:10 -

Though the wicked is shown favor,

He does not learn righteousness;

He deals unjustly in the land of uprightness,

And does not perceive the majesty of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:10 -

Within a year and a few days

You will quake, O complacent daughters;

For the grape harvest is ended,

And the fruit gathering will not come.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 -

The highways are desolate, [fn]the traveler has ceased;

He has broken the covenant, he has rejected the cities;

He has no regard for man.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:20 -

“Yahweh is here to save me;

So we will play my songs on stringed instruments

All the days of our life at the house of Yahweh.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:10 -

“You were tired out by the length of your road,

Yet you did not say, ‘It is hopeless.’

You found [fn]renewed strength;

Therefore you did not [fn]faint.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:37 -

And the peaceful pastures are made silent

Because of the burning anger of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:3 - ‘Perhaps they will listen and everyone will turn from his evil way, that I may [fn]relent of the evil which I am devising to [fn]bring against them because of the evil of their deeds.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:8 - Now it happened that when Jeremiah finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You must surely die!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:13 - “So now, make good your ways and your deeds and listen to the voice of Yahweh your God; and Yahweh will [fn]relent of the evil demise which He has spoken against you.

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