Word

παύω

paúō · G3973 · Greek · 15 occurrences

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Meanings

to cease or stop

To cease from an activity or state in which one is engaged, or to cause someone or something to do so

Examples
Acts 5:42 And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and preaching the good news of Jesus as the Christ.
Luke 5:4 Now when He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”
1 Peter 3:10 For, “THE ONE WHO DESIRES LIFE, TO LOVE AND SEE GOOD DAYS, MUST KEEP HIS TONGUE FROM EVIL AND HIS LIPS FROM SPEAKING DECEIT.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

15 occurrences in 11 groups

Not stated: they 4
Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

8 occurrences in 9 groups

Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (9) 9

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 4 groups

διάthrough+ οὗτοςthis 2
διάthrough+ ἔχωto have 1
ἀπόfrom+ ἀκούωto hear 1
ἀπόfrom+ κακόςevil, bad, harm 1

With adverbsAdverbs

6 occurrences in 1 groups

οὐnot 6

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

λέγωto say 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

μετάwith, after 3

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 3 words

כָּלָה kâlâh · H3615 · to be finished, to be completed, to come to an end: Both denote cessation or stopping of an action or state, with כָּלָה (kâlâh, H3615) encompassing a broader semantic range including completion, consumption, and destruction, while παύω (paúō, G3973) focuses more narrowly on the act of stopping or causing to stop.
שָׁבַת shâbath · H7673 · to end, to cease, to stop: Greek παύω and Hebrew שָׁבַת both denote the core concept of cessation or stopping an action, with שָׁבַת additionally carrying the specific sense of sabbath rest/observance that παύω typically renders in LXX contexts where cessation from work is in view.
חָדַל châdal · H2308 · to cease to exist, to cease, to stop: חָדַל (châdal, H2308) and παύω (paúō, G3973) both denote cessation of activity, whether stopping oneself (intransitive) or causing something else to stop (transitive); the Hebrew term encompasses a broader range including 'forsake' and 'leave off' that overlaps with the Greek term's core sense of bringing action to an end.

Semantic domains 2 entries

To cease, to stop68.34: This domain covers παύω naming the ending of an activity already underway, as Luke describes Jesus's word to the fishermen after teaching from the boat: “When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, ‘Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.’” (Luke 5:4)
To cause to cease, to make stop68.46: Here παύω names the restraint of another's action rather than the ending of one's own, as Peter quotes the psalm's call to hold back harmful speech: “‘THE ONE WHO DESIRES LIFE, TO LOVE AND SEE GOOD DAYS, MUST KEEP HIS TONGUE FROM EVIL AND HIS LIPS FROM SPEAKING DECEIT.’” (1 Peter 3:10)

Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

παύωpaúō · G3973ἀναπαύω anapaúō · G373 · to cause to rest, to give rest, rest · 12×κατάπαυσις katápausis · G2663 · to rest, to cease from work · 9×ἀνάπαυσις anápausis · G372 · to cease, to stop, rest · 5×καταπαύω katapaúō · G2664 · to rest, to cease from work, to cause to rest · 4×ἐπαναπαύομαι epanapaúomai · G1879 · to remain on, to continue to be on, to rely on · 2×ἀκατάπαυστος akatápaustos · G180 · never ceasing, not stopping · 1×συναναπαύομαι synanapaúomai · G4875 · to rest together with someone else, to rest with · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist imperative 3 person singular παυσάτω (1 Pet 3:10); middle, present παύομαι;…

: 1 aorist imperative 3 person singular παυσάτω (1 Pet 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 Pet 3:10, from Ps 33:14; 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)): Lk 8:24; Acts 20:1; 1 Cor 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, Lk 5:4 (Gen 18:33; Num 16:31; Deut 20:9); add, Acts 5:42; Acts 6:13; Acts 13:10; Acts 20:31; Acts 21:32; Eph 1:16; Col 1:9; Heb 10:2; the participle is lacking, as being evident from the context, Lk 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 Pet 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).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Cease, Stop15 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0