92 occurrences

'Cease' in the Bible

Pharaoh also saith, 'Lo, numerous now is the people of the land, and ye have caused them to cease from their burdens!'

Verse ConceptsMany In Israel

And Moses saith unto him, 'At my going out of the city, I spread my palms unto Jehovah -- the voices cease, and the hail is not any more, so that thou knowest that the earth is Jehovah's;

Verse ConceptsEarth, Belonging To GodKnowing God, Nature OfPlaguesPrayer, Practicalities OfProperty, LandStretching OutCessationPraying For SinnersThings StoppingAll Things Belong To God

And Moses goeth out from Pharaoh, from the city, and spreadeth his hands unto Jehovah, and the voices and the hail cease, and rain hath not been poured out to the earth;

Verse ConceptsMiracles Of Moses And AaronElements, Control OfDivine Power Over NatureStretching OutCessationPraying For SinnersThings Stopping

Seven days ye eat unleavened things; only -- in the first day ye cause leaven to cease out of your houses; for any one eating anything fermented from the first day till the seventh day, even that person hath been cut off from Israel.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentSevenSeven DaysThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

Is not this the word which we spake unto thee in Egypt, saying, Cease from us, and we serve the Egyptians; for better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in a wilderness?'

Verse ConceptsDying In The WildernessPossibility Of DeathLeave Us AloneServing GroupsDying In The Desert slaveryNot Being Alone

And every offering -- thy present -- with salt thou dost season, and thou dost not let the salt of the covenant of thy God cease from thy present; with all thine offerings thou dost bring near salt.

Verse ConceptsGrain OfferingMineralsOfferingsSaltSournessTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiMeat offerings

'And I have given peace in the land, and ye have lain down, and there is none causing trembling; and I have caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, and the sword doth not pass over into your land.

Verse ConceptsSleeplessnessWild Beasts SubduedPeaceMaking Peace With EnemiesSleeping PeacefullyDivine Protection

and Jehovah cometh down in the cloud, and speaketh unto him, and keepeth back of the Spirit which is on him, and putteth on the seventy men of the elders; and it cometh to pass at the resting of the Spirit on them, that they prophesy, and do not cease.

Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToRevelation, In OtProphesyingOnceOnly Onceelders

'And it hath come to pass, the man's rod on whom I fix doth flourish, and I have caused to cease from off me the murmurings of the sons of Israel, which they are murmuring against you.'

Verse ConceptsBlossomResentment, Against GodSprouting PlantsSproutingGrumbling At People

because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy one, in thy land.

Verse ConceptsLiberalityBad LeadershipCommands, in OTPoor PeopleBeggarsLendingPoverty, Remedies ForSuffering, HardshipGenerosity, Used TowardsThe poorHelping The PoorHelping Others In NeedFeeding The Poor

I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;

Verse ConceptsOblivionPeople Cut In PiecesForgetting Peopleremembrance

and the manna doth cease on the morrow in their eating of the old corn of the land, and there hath been no more manna to the sons of Israel, and they eat of the increase of the land of Canaan in that year.

Verse ConceptsMannaCessationNo FoodThings Stopping

And the men of Gibeon send unto Joshua, unto the camp at Gilgal, saying, 'Let not thy hand cease from thy servants; come up unto us with haste, and give safety to us, and help us; for all the kings of the Amorite, dwelling in the hill-country, have been assembled against us.'

Verse ConceptsGroups Helping

for a border hath Jehovah put between us and you, O sons of Reuben, and sons of Gad -- Jordan; ye have no portion in Jehovah -- and your sons have caused our sons to cease, not to fear Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsBoundaries

And Samson saith to them, 'Though ye do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterwards I cease!'

Verse ConceptsCessationMan AvengingRevenge

and Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, is standing before it in those days -- saying, 'Do I add again to go out to battle with the sons of Benjamin, my brother, or do I cease?' And Jehovah saith, 'Go up, for to-morrow I give him into thy hand.'

Verse ConceptsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

And the women say unto Naomi, 'Blessed is Jehovah who hath not let a redeemer cease to thee to-day, and his name is proclaimed in Israel,

Verse ConceptsBless The Lord!Being A Woman Of God

and the messenger putteth forth his hand to Jerusalem to destroy it, and Jehovah repenteth concerning the evil, and saith to the messenger who is destroying among the people, 'Enough, now, cease thy hand;' and the messenger of Jehovah was near the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Verse ConceptsRegretUnhappinessAngels, Ot AppearancesDestruction Of JerusalemGod Changing His MindMore Than EnoughAngels Activities Among Unbelievers

And he hath caused to cease the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah have appointed, (and they make perfume in high places, in cities of Judah and suburbs of Jerusalem,) and those making perfume to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of the heavens.

Verse ConceptsConstellationsHigh PlacesMoonPriests, Institution In Ot TimesShrinesIncense Offered AmissIdolatrous Worship Of The Moon

And he causeth to cease the horses that the kings of Judah have given to the sun from the entering in of the house of Jehovah, by the chamber of Nathan-Melech the eunuch, that is in the suburbs, and the chariots of the sun he hath burnt with fire.

Verse ConceptsChamberlainsBurning Idolatrous ThingsAbandoning IdolsPrivate Rooms

and God sendeth a messenger to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he is destroying Jehovah hath seen, and is comforted concerning the evil, and saith to the messenger who is destroying, 'Enough, now, cease thy hand.' And the messenger of Jehovah is standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite,

Verse ConceptsRegretDestruction Of JerusalemNatural Disasters

And it cometh to pass, in his speaking unto him, that he saith to him, 'For a counsellor to the king have we appointed thee? cease for thee; why do they smite thee?' And the prophet ceaseth, and saith, 'I have known that God hath counselled to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel.'

Verse ConceptsTwelve Beings

and he sendeth unto him messengers, saying, 'What -- to me and to thee, O king of Judah? not against thee do I come to-day, but unto the house with which I have war, and God said to haste me; cease for thee from God who is with me, and He doth not destroy thee.'

Verse ConceptsConfrontationResistanceHasteWhat Have We In Common?

'Now, make ye a decree to cause these men to cease, and this city is not builded, till by me a decree is made.

Then from the time that a copy of the letter of king Artaxerxes is read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they have gone in haste to Jerusalem, unto the Jews, and caused them to cease by force and strength;

Verse ConceptsArtaxerxes The KingJews, TheHasty ActionReading Other Matter

And the eye of their God hath been upon the elders of the Jews, and they have not caused them to cease till the matter goeth to Darius, and then they send back a letter concerning this thing.

Verse ConceptsJews, TheWatchfulness, DivineGod Seeing The Righteous

And by me is made a decree concerning that which ye do with the elders of these Jews to build this house of God, that of the riches of the king, that are of the tribute beyond the river, speedily let the outlay be given to these men, that they cease not;

Verse ConceptsPersecution, Attitudes To

for servants we are, and in our servitude our God hath not forsaken us, and stretcheth out unto us kindness before the kings of Persia, to give to us a quickening to lift up the house of our God, and to cause its wastes to cease, and to give to us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsKindnessUnkindnessWallsArchaeologyGod Not ForsakingGroups Of Slavesslaveryrevival

And our adversaries say, 'They do not know, nor see, till that we come in to their midst, and have slain them, and caused the work to cease.'

Verse ConceptsCessationNot Knowing The FutureAttempting To Kill Specific Peopleteammates

And I send unto them messengers, saying, 'A great work I am doing, and I am not able to come down; why doth the work cease when I let it alone, and have come down unto you?'

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutLazinessCessationGreat Things

I have wasted away -- not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days are vanity.

Verse ConceptsLife, HumanLonelinessVanityLeave Us AloneMan A Mere BreathNot For EverLife Despised

Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,

Verse ConceptsLife, Brevity OfLeave Us Alone

Look away from off him that he may cease, Till he enjoy as an hireling his day.

Verse ConceptsHiringHirelingsLeave Them Alone

For there is of a tree hope, if it be cut down, That again it doth change, That its tender branch doth not cease.

Verse ConceptsSproutingAre The Dead Raised?GrowingChange And Growthcutting

If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me?

Verse ConceptsHelplessnessPeople Being SilentMere Talk

And these three men cease from answering Job, for he is righteous in his own eyes,

Verse ConceptsPride, Examples OfThree MenIndividuals Being Silent

Causing wars to cease, Unto the end of the earth, the bow he shivereth, And the spear He hath cut asunder, Chariots he doth burn with fire.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Symbol Of StrengthSpearsWarfare, Nature OfWeaponsDisarmamentBreaking WeaponsDestroying ChariotsI Am GodGod Makes Peace

In a day of my distress the Lord I sought, My hand by night hath been spread out, And it doth not cease, My soul hath refused to be comforted.

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofNo ComfortHealing And ComfortOvercoming Hard TimesGetting Through Hard TimesFeeling Lostproblemssoultired

Hast caused him to cease from his brightness, And his throne to the earth hast cast down.

Verse ConceptsendDeposingLosing Honour

Dross! Thou hast caused to cease All the wicked of the earth; Therefore I have loved Thy testimonies.

Verse ConceptsdrossWicked Described AsUseless PeopleLoving God's Things

The lot causeth contentions to cease, And between the mighty it separateth.

Verse ConceptsCasting LotsResolving Conflict

Cease, my son, to hear instruction -- To err from sayings of knowledge.

Verse ConceptsListeningCessationPeople Going Astray

And removed have been gladness and joy from the fruitful field, And in vineyards they sing not, nor shout, Wine in the presses treadeth not the treader, Shouting I have caused to cease.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholWinepressDestroying VineyardsVintageCessationTreading GrapesLack Of Rejoicing

A hard vision hath been declared to me, The treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously, And the destroyer is destroying. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, All its sighing I have caused to cease.

Verse ConceptsProphetic Visionstraitors

Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.'

Verse ConceptsConfrontationUnhearing

And I have caused to cease from cities of Judah, And from streets of Jerusalem, The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, Voice of bridegroom, and voice of bride, For the land doth become a desolation!

Verse ConceptsBridegroomBridesMarriage, Customs ConcerningVoicesWeddingsCessationStopping RejoicingLack Of Rejoicing

And thou hast said unto them this word: Tears come down mine eyes night and day, And they do not cease, For, with a great breach, Broken hath been the virgin daughter of my people, A very grievous stroke.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersAffliction Day And NightNightI Mourn Catastrophe

For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing to cease from this place, Before your eyes, and in your days, The voice of joy, and the voice of rejoicing, The voice of bridegroom and voice of bride.

Verse ConceptsBridegroomBridesVoicesCessationStopping RejoicingLack Of Rejoicing

And hath been as a tree planted by waters, And by a rivulet he sendeth forth his roots, And he doth not see when heat cometh, And his leaf hath been green, And in a year of dearth he is not sorrowful, Nor doth he cease from making fruit.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreenSpring Of WaterUnfading LifeThe Source Of FruitRiver BanksWater For PlantsHot WeatherGreenWater, As A Symbol Of LifeRiversOlive TreesAnxiety And FearWorrying

Doth snow of Lebanon Cease from the rock of the field? Failed are the cold strange waters that flow?

Verse ConceptsSnowCold, Figurative UseAbandoning Things

If these statutes depart from before Me, An affirmation of Jehovah, Even the seed of Israel doth cease From being a nation before Me all the days.

Verse ConceptsOrderly Patternsisrael

and unto Jehoiakim king of Judah thou dost say: Thus said Jehovah, Thou hast burnt this roll, saying, Wherefore hast thou written on it, saying, The king of Babylon surely cometh in, and hath destroyed this land, and caused to cease from it man and beast?

Verse ConceptsLand Becoming EmptyBoth Men And Animals KilledKings of judah

Ho, sword of Jehovah, till when art thou not quiet? Be removed unto thy sheath, rest and cease.

Verse ConceptsBe Still!God's Sword

And removed hath been joy and gladness From the fruitful field, Even from the land of Moab, And wine from wine-presses I have caused to cease, Shouting doth not proceed, The shouting is no shouting!

Verse ConceptsWineWinepressDestroying VineyardsDepression, SymptomsCessationNo FoodLack Of Rejoicing

And I have caused to cease to Moab, An affirmation of Jehovah, Him who is offering in a high place, And him who is making perfume to his god.

Verse ConceptsShrinesNo IncensePeople EndedSacrificing On The High Places

Mine eye is poured out, And doth not cease without intermission,

Verse ConceptsUnceasingContinual Hardship

And I have brought in the wicked of the nations, And they have possessed their houses, And I have caused to cease the excellency of the strong, And polluted have been those sanctifying them.

Verse ConceptsRejection Of God, Results OfSanctuaryCessationLimitations Of StrengthGod Opposes The ProudHouses Under AttackPeople Possessing Other ThingsPolluting Holy PlacesThings Stopping

therefore say unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have caused this simile to cease, And they use it not as a simile again in Israel, But speak to them: Drawn near have the days, And spoken hath every vision.

Verse ConceptsCessationNear The Time GenerallyOld SayingsThings StoppingEnd Of Daysisraelfulfillment

And burnt thy houses with fire, And done in thee judgments before the eyes of many women, And I have caused thee to cease from going a-whoring, And also a gift thou givest no more.

Verse ConceptsCessationStopping EvilBurning JerusalemSeeing Situations

And I have caused thy wickedness to cease from thee, And thy whoredoms out of the land of Egypt, And thou liftest not up thine eyes unto them, And Egypt thou dost not remember again.

Verse ConceptsCessationStopping EvilForgetting PeopleSpiritual Harlotry

And I have caused wickedness to cease from the land, And instructed have been all the women, And they do not according to your wickedness.

Verse ConceptsCessationStopping EvilAvoid Immorality

Cease to groan, for the dead thou dost make no mourning, thy bonnet bind on thee, and thy shoes thou dost put on thy feet, and thou dost not cover over the upper lip, and bread of men thou dost not eat.'

Verse ConceptsCustomFeetBereavement, Expression OfHead coveringCovering The MouthSandalsTraditionsVeilsDressShoesClothing OneselfHeadgearFacial HairSilenceEating Forbidden Food

And I have caused the noise of thy songs to cease, And the voice of thy harps is heard no more.

Verse ConceptsNoiseHarpsMusical Instruments, types ofCessationStopping RejoicingSilenceNo Musiccultureinstruments

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have caused the multitude of Egypt to cease, By the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORD

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And -- I have destroyed idols, And caused vain things to cease from Noph, And a prince of the land of Egypt there is no more, And I give fear in the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Satan's WorksFear Will ComeAbandoning IdolsNo King

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am against the shepherds, And have required My flock from their hand, And caused them to cease from feeding the flock, And no more do the shepherds feed themselves, And I have delivered My flock from their mouth, And they are not to them for food.

Verse ConceptsChrist And His SheepCessationGod Saves The NeedyTaking Other People

And I have made for them a covenant of peace, And caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, And they have dwelt in a wilderness confidently, And they have slept in forests.

Verse ConceptsForestsCovenant, God's with NoahSafetySleep, PhysicalShowersBlessing In The WildernessWild Beasts SubduedSleeping Peacefully

And he hath strengthened a covenant with many -- one week, and in the midst of the week he causeth sacrifice and present to cease, and by the wing of abominations he is making desolate, even till the consummation, and that which is determined is poured on the desolate one.'

Verse ConceptsAbominationsTribulation PeriodAbomination Of DesolationThree And A Half YearsSeven YearsThe DestroyerIsrael In TribulationPeace And SafetyThe World Ruler

And he turneth back his face to the isles, and hath captured many; and a prince hath caused his reproach of himself to cease; without his reproach he turneth it back to him.

Verse ConceptsIslandsCoastlandsGod Makes Evil ReboundCapturing CitiesResolving Conflict

and Jehovah saith unto him, 'Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little, and I have charged the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and have caused to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel;

Verse ConceptsGod Naming PeoplePeople EndedDeposingKilling Many People

And I have caused to cease all her joy, Her festival, her new moon, and her sabbath, Even all her appointed times,

Verse ConceptsNew Moon FestivalSabbath, In OtCessationStopping RejoicingFestivals DisregardedLack Of RejoicingSabbath ViolatedCelebration

Lord Jehovah, cease, I pray Thee, How doth Jacob arise -- for he is small?'

Verse ConceptsBeggarsCessationStopping EvilSmall CreaturesBelittling

Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

Verse ConceptsOppression, Nature OfPoor, Oppression OfRobberyTrampling PeoplePeople EndedNot Helping The Poor

And they say unto him, 'What do we do to thee that the sea may cease from us, for the sea is more and more tempestuous?'

Verse ConceptsMaking StillDoing One's WorkThe Sea Stilled

And he saith unto them, 'Lift me up, and cast me into the sea, and the sea doth cease from you; for I know that on my account this great tempest is upon you.'

Verse ConceptsFaultsMaking StillThrowing PeopleIn The Heart Of The SeaPeople Carrying Live PeopleWhy It Happenedjumpingjonah

Therefore doth law cease, And judgment doth not go forth for ever, For the wicked is compassing the righteous, Therefore wrong judgment goeth forth.

Verse ConceptsInjustice, Examples OfOpposition, To Sin And EvilRighteous, TheNo JusticeBreaking God's Law

a kiss to me thou didst not give, but this woman, from what time I came in, did not cease kissing my feet;

Verse ConceptsKissing ChristMealsKissesCare Of Feet

they set up also false witnesses, saying, 'This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law,

Verse ConceptsCrimesHoliness, As Set Apart For GodJudaism

said, 'O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord?

Verse ConceptsSatan, Agents OfShrewdnessDenunciationsMischiefChildren Of EvilTwistingStraight PathsMen DeceivingChildren Of The DevilEnemies Of GodDemonic Influence

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּטל 
Batel 
Usage: 1

בּטל 
B@tel (Aramaic) 
Usage: 6

דּמה 
Damah 
Usage: 15

דּמם 
Damam 
Usage: 30

חדל 
Chadal 
Usage: 58

חרשׁ 
Charash 
Usage: 74

מוּשׁ 
Muwsh 
Usage: 20

נוּח 
Nuwach 
Usage: 144

פּוּג 
Puwg 
Usage: 4

פּרר 
Parar 
Usage: 51

רפה 
Raphah 
feeble , fail , weaken , go , alone , idle , stay , slack , faint , forsake , abated , cease ,
Usage: 46

שׁבת 
Shabath 
Usage: 71

שׁבת 
Shebeth 
Usage: 3

שׁכך 
Shakak 
Usage: 5

שׁתק 
Shathaq 
Usage: 4

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ἀδιάλειπτος 
Adialeiptos 
Usage: 2

G89
ἀδιαλείπτως 
Adialeiptos 
Usage: 4

ἀκατάπαυστος 
Akatapaustos 
Usage: 1

διαλείπω 
Dialeipo 
Usage: 0

ἐκτενής 
Ektenes 
Usage: 2

ἡσυχάζω 
hesuchazo 
Usage: 5

καταπαύω 
Katapauo 
Usage: 4

καταργέω 
Katargeo 
destroy , do away , abolish , cumber , loose , cease , fall , deliver , s
Usage: 25

κοπάζω 
Kopazo 
Usage: 3

παύω 
Pauo 
Usage: 15