παύω
pauō
“to cease”
Definition
to stop (transitively or intransitively), i.e. restrain, quit, desist, come to an end
a primary verb ("pause");
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
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Greek Verb
Occurrences
παύω appears 15 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.
and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?
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.
For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
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.”
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