παύω
pauō (G3973)
to cease
AI Word Study
The Greek word "παύω" (pauō) means "to cease". This action can refer to stopping an activity, process, or state, such as ceasing to speak, cease from labor, or putting an end to opposition. The range of usage is broad, with 15 occurrences in the Bible, indicating its significance in various contexts. In its physical action semantic domain, "pauō" implies a transition from an active to a passive state. This can be seen in its use to describe stopping physical activities, speaking, or even a state of being. However, the word's meaning extends beyond mere physical actions, as it also encompasses stopping mental or emotional activities, such as ceasing to harbor doubts or ending opposition. The significance of "pauō" lies in its ability to capture a pivotal moment of transition and change. It highlights the end of a particular state, process, or activity, allowing new developments or outcomes to take place.
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When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch.”
They came to him, and awoke him, saying, “Master, master, we are dying!” He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and it was calm.
When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”
Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.
and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.
Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
Immediately he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,