Strong's Greek · G3973
παύω
paúō
cease, leave, refrain
Definition
to stop (transitively or intransitively), i.e. restrain, quit, desist, come to an end
Derivation
a primary verb ("pause");
Appears 15 times in Scripture
“When Jesus had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.””
“I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,”
“One day in a place where Jesus had just finished praying, one of His disciples requested, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.””
“The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters, and they subsided, and all was calm.”
“Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.”
“Every day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.”
“If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.”
“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.”
“When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the disciples. And after encouraging them, he said goodbye to them and left for Macedonia.”
“Immediately he took some soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When the people saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).