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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)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8 - So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:33 - So the LORD went His way as soon as He had finished speaking with Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:14 - “Now let it be that the young woman to whom I say, ‘Please let down your pitcher that I may drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. And by this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:19 - And when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will draw water for your camels also, until they have finished drinking.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:22 - So it was, when the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden nose ring weighing half a shekel, and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels of gold,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:30 - Now it happened, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:28 - “Entreat the LORD, that there may be no more mighty thundering and hail, for it is enough. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:29 - So Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD; the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:33 - So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread out his hands to the LORD; then the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:34 - And when Pharaoh saw that the rain, the hail, and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet more; and he hardened his heart, he and his servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:17 - ‘It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12 - “Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, ‘He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this harm to Your people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:31 - Now it came to pass, as he finished speaking all these words, that the ground split apart under them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:10 - And the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Aaron’s rod back before the Testimony, to be kept as a sign against the rebels, that you may put their complaints away from Me, lest they die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:8 - and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:9 - “And so it shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:26 - I would have said, “I will dash them in pieces,
I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:26 - Then they raised over him a great heap of stones, still there to this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Achor[fn] to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:24 - And it came to pass when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness where they pursued them, and when they all had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:24 - There was Zadok also, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God, and Abiathar went up until all the people had finished crossing over from the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:22 - Then David said to Ornan, “Grant me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar on it to the LORD. You shall grant it to me at the full price, that the plague may be withdrawn from the people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 5:1

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 palace, across from the king’s house, while the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, facing the entrance of the house.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:7 - My soul refuses to touch them;
They are as loathsome food to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:26 - Do you intend to rebuke my words,
And the speeches of a desperate one, which are as wind?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:13 - “Oh, that You would hide me in the grave,
That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past,
That You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:2 - “How long till you put an end to words?
Gain understanding, and afterward we will speak.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:9 - The princes refrained from talking,
And put their hand on their mouth;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:40 - Then let thistles grow instead of wheat,
And weeds instead of barley.”
The words of Job are ended.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:19 - “Teach us what we should say to Him,
For we can prepare nothing because of the darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:1 - Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:13 - Keep your tongue from evil,
And your lips from speaking deceit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 37:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:8 - Cease from anger, and forsake wrath;
Do not fret—it only causes harm.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:18 - Casting lots causes contentions to cease,
And keeps the mighty apart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:1 - The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, his utterance. This man declared to Ithiel—to Ithiel and Ucal:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:16 - “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;
Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.
Cease to do evil,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:24 - Therefore the Lord says,
The LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel,
“Ah, I will rid Myself of My adversaries,
And take vengeance on My enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:25 - “For yet a very little while and the indignation will cease, as will My anger in their destruction.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:10 - Gladness is taken away,
And joy from the plentiful field;
In the vineyards there will be no singing,
Nor will there be shouting;
No treaders will tread out wine in the presses;
I have made their shouting cease.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:8 - The mirth of the tambourine ceases,
The noise of the jubilant ends,
The joy of the harp ceases.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:11 - There is a cry for wine in the streets,
All joy is darkened,
The mirth of the land is gone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:13 - When it shall be thus in the midst of the land among the people,
It shall be like the shaking of an olive tree,
Like the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:10 - Let grace be shown to the wicked,
Yet he will not learn righteousness;
In the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly,
And will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:10 - In a year and some days
You will be troubled, you complacent women;
For the vintage will fail,
The gathering will not come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 - The highways lie waste,
The traveling man ceases.
He has broken the covenant,
He has despised the cities,[fn]
He regards no man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:20 - “The LORD was ready to save me;
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments
All the days of our life, in the house of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:10 - You are wearied in the length of your way;
Yet you did not say, ‘There is no hope.’
You have found the life of your hand;
Therefore you were not grieved.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:37 - And the peaceful dwellings are cut down
Because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:3 - ‘Perhaps everyone will listen and turn from his evil way, that I may relent concerning the calamity which I purpose to bring on them because of the evil of their doings.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:8 - Now it happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You will surely die!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:13 - “Now therefore, amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; then the LORD will relent concerning the doom that He has pronounced against you.

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