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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:33 - And the LORD went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:14 - Let the maiden to whom I shall say, 'Pray let down your jar that I may drink,' and who shall say, 'Drink, and I will water your camels'--let her be the one whom thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac. By this I shall know that thou hast shown steadfast love to my master."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:19 - When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw for your camels also, until they have done drinking."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:22 - When the camels had done drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels,

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:28 - Entreat the LORD; for there has been enough of this thunder and hail; 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 - Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch 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 stretched out his hands to the LORD; and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:34

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:17 - It is a sign for ever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made heaven and 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 say, 'With evil intent did he bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:31 - And as he finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split asunder;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:10 - And the LORD said to Moses, "Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, lest they die."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:8 - and went after the man of Israel into the inner room, and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman, through her body. Thus the plague was stayed from the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:9 - And when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, then commanders shall be appointed at the head of the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:26 - I would have said, "I will scatter them afar, I will make the remembrance of them cease from among men,"

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:26 - And they raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day; then the LORD turned from his burning anger. Therefore to this day the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:24 - When Israel had finished slaughtering all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:24 - And Abi'athar came up, and lo, Zadok came also, with all the Levites, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down the ark of God, until the people had all passed out of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:22 - And David said to Ornan, "Give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to the LORD--give it to me at its full price--that the plague may be averted from the people."

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:1 - On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king's palace, opposite the king's hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne inside the palace opposite the entrance to the palace;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:7 - My appetite refuses to touch them; they are as food that is loathsome to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:26 - Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:13 - Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest conceal me until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:2 - "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:9 - the princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:40 - let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:19 - Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of 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:

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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 - Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:18 - The lot puts an end to disputes and decides between powerful contenders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:1 - The words of Agur son of Jakeh of Massa. The man says to Ith'i-el, to Ith'i-el and Ucal:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:16 - Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove 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 vent my wrath on my enemies, and avenge myself on my foes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:25 - For in a very little while my indignation will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:10 - And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful field; and in the vineyards no songs are sung, no shouts are raised; no treader treads out wine in the presses; the vintage shout is hushed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:8 - The mirth of the timbrels is stilled, the noise of the jubilant has ceased, the mirth of the lyre is stilled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:11 - There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine; all joy has reached its eventide; the gladness of the earth is banished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:13 - For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, as at the gleaning when the vintage is done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:10 - If favor is shown to the wicked, he does not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he deals perversely and does not see the majesty of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:10 - In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent women; for the vintage will fail, the fruit harvest will not come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 - The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases. Covenants are broken, witnesses are despised, there is no regard for man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:20 - The LORD will save me, and we will sing to stringed instruments all the days of our life, at the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:10 - You were wearied with the length of your way, but you did not say, "It is hopeless"; you found new life for your strength, and so you were not faint.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:37 - and the peaceful folds are devastated, because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:3 - It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, that I may repent of the evil which I intend to do to them because of their evil doings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:8 - And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, "You shall 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, and the LORD will repent of the evil which he has pronounced against you.

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