Greek verb · G3973
παύω
pauopow'-o
to cease
15 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: paúō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3973is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 27New Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3973
to stop (transitively or intransitively), i.e. restrain, quit, desist, come to an end
The King James renders it: cease, leave, refrain.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
pauo is rendered "to cease". It stands 15 times in the Greek text, across seven books.
- Six of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 5:4When Jesus had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
When Jesus had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”
Luke 5:4ἐπαύσατο
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's fifteen uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- cease1
- ceasing1
- do cease1
- does stop1
- has himself done1
- He ceased1
- He left off1
- he should keep1
- I ceased1
- they ceased1
- they have ceased1
- they stopped1
and 3 more, 15 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐπαύσαντο3
- ἐπαύσατο2
- ἐπαύοντο1
- ἐπαυσάμην1
- παύεται1
- παύομαι1
- παυόμεθα1
- παύσασθαι1
- παυσάτω1
- παύσῃ1
- παύσονται1
- πέπαυται1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person plural3V-AMI-3P
- verb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-AMI-3S
- verb · aorist active, command · 3rd person singular1V-AAM-3S
- verb · aorist middle, indicative · 1st person singular1V-AMI-1S
- verb · aorist middle, infinitive (“to…”)1V-AMN
- verb · future middle form, indicative · 2nd person singular1V-FDI-2S
- verb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-FDI-3P
- verb · imperfect middle, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-IMI-3P
- verb · present middle, indicative · 1st person plural1V-PMI-1P
- verb · present middle, indicative · 1st person singular1V-PMI-1S
- verb · present middle, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PMI-3S
- verb · perfect middle, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-RMI-3S
Luke
three uses
When Jesus had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”
- ἐπαύσατοepausatoverb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He left off
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.
- ἐπαύσαντοepausantoverb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they ceased
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.”
- ἐπαύσατοepausatoverb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He ceased
Acts
six uses
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.
- ἐπαύοντοepauontoverb · imperfect middle, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were ceasing
where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.
- παύεταιpauetaiverb · present middle, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: does stop
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?
- παύσῃpauseverb · future middle form, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: will you cease
When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the disciples. And after encouraging them, he said goodbye to them and left for Macedonia.
- παύσασθαιpausasthaiverb · aorist middle, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: ceasing
Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.
- ἐπαυσάμηνepausamenverb · aorist middle, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I ceased
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.
- ἐπαύσαντοepausantoverb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they stopped
1 Corinthians
one use
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.
- παύσονταιpausontaiverb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they will cease
Ephesians
one use
I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,
- παύομαιpauomaiverb · present middle, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: do cease
Colossians
one use
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,
- παυόμεθαpauomethaverb · present middle, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: cease
Hebrews
one use
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.
- ἐπαύσαντοepausantoverb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they have ceased
1 Peter
two uses
For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.
- παυσάτωpausatoverb · aorist active, command · 3rd person singulartagged: he should keep
Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.
- πέπαυταιpepautaiverb · perfect middle, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has himself done
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.