pauō · stop, cease

What it means

pauō (παύω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “stop, cease”.

Finish; in the active, make stop, keep from.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To quit doing something, or curb the tongue.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• stopped ×4
• cease ×3
• stop ×3
• had ceased ×1
• has finished ×1
• have ceased ×1
• let him keep ×1
• they ceased ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Luke×3
• Acts×6
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Ephesians×1
• Colossians×1
• Hebrews×1
• 1 Peter×2

• Luke 5:4

  And when he had stopped speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch.”

• Luke 8:24

  And they came and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And he woke up and rebuked the wind and the surge of the water; and they ceased, and there was a calm.

• Luke 11:1

  And it happened, while he was praying in a certain place, that when he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

• Acts 5:42

  And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.

• Acts 6:13

  and they set up false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop speaking words against the holy place and the law;

• Acts 13:10

  and said, “You full of all deceit and all fraud, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not stop making crooked the straight ways of the Lord?

• Acts 20:1

  And after the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and having encouraged them and said farewell, he departed to go to Macedonia.

• Acts 20:31

  Therefore keep watch, remembering that for three years night and day I did not cease to warn each one with tears.

• Acts 21:32

  He at once took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them; and when they saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

• 1 Corinthians 13:8

  Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they will be done away with; whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will be done away with.

• Ephesians 1:16

  do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

• Colossians 1:9

  For this reason we also, from the day we heard it, have not stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

• Hebrews 10:2

  Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, once purified, would have no consciousness of sins any longer?

• 1 Peter 3:10

  For Whoever wants to love life and to see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;

• 1 Peter 4:1

  Since the Messiah then suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin,