35 occurrences

'Stopped' in the Bible

And the Philistines stopped up all the wells that the servants of his father had dug in the days of Abraham his father. They filled them with earth.

Verse ConceptsExcavationStopping WellsTimes Of People

And Isaac dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after the death of Abraham. And he gave to them {the same names} which his father had given them.

Verse ConceptsStopping WellsPeople Naming ThingsTimes Of People

And Joseph piled up grain like the sand of the sea in great abundance until he stopped counting [it], for {it could not be counted}.

Verse ConceptsAn Innumerable NumberSandImpossible For PeoplePlenty In EgyptSand And Gravel

And Moses went from Pharaoh out of the city, and he spread his hands to Yahweh, and the thunder and the hail stopped, and rain did not pour [on the] earth.

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

And Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder stopped, and {he again sinned} and made his heart {insensitive}, he and his servants.

Verse ConceptsCessationObstinate IndividualsThings Stopping

He stood between the dead and between the living, and the plague was stopped.

Verse ConceptsMediatorCessationNot DyingDeath PreventedThings Stopping

Then Aaron returned to Moses at the doorway of the tent of assembly, and the plague was stopped.

Verse ConceptsCessationThings Stopping

He went after the man of Israel into the woman's section of the tent, and he drove the two of them, the man of Israel and the woman, into her belly. And the plague among the {Israelites} stopped.

Verse ConceptsPiercingscouplesinterracial

And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until [the] nation took vengeance [on] its enemies. Is it not written in the scroll of Jashar? The sun stood still in the middle of the heaven and was not in haste to set for about a full day.

Verse ConceptsBooksBooks, Not PreservedSkyOne DayHistorical BooksSunSunshineThe Moonmovement

The utility cart came to the field of Joshua [of] Beth Shemesh and stopped there where there [was] a large stone. They split the wood of the utility cart and sacrificed the cows [as] a burnt offering to Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsWoodCartsSplitting WoodFirewood

So David and his men got up, about six hundred men, and went out from Keilah and wandered wherever they could go. When it was told to Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, {he stopped his pursuit}.

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsExamples Of EscapingSix To Seven HundredEscaping From PeopleSix Hundred And AboveTelling Of Movements

Then Joab blew on the trumpet and all the people stopped, and they no longer pursued after Israel, and they did not fight with them again.

Verse ConceptsTrumpetCessationStopping FightingTrumpets To Stop Fighting

So the king went out with all the people {following him}, and they stopped {at the last house}.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesCessationStopping Still

Now Amasa [was] wallowing in the blood in the middle of the highway; when the man saw that all the people stood [there], he turned Amasa over from the highway into the field, and he threw a garment over him because he had seen that all who had come by him had stopped.

Verse ConceptsMotionlessnessComing To RestCovered With BloodTragedy On The StreetsCorpses Of Other People

When Baasha heard, he stopped building Ramah, and he lived in Tirzah.

Verse ConceptsCessation

The cities they tore down, [on] every good tract of land they threw stones until it was filled up, every spring of water they stopped up, and every good tree they felled. They let the stone walls at Kir Hareseth remain, but the slingers surrounded and attacked it.

Verse ConceptsSlingsFelling TreesCities Under AttackThrowing StonesPeople Drying Things UpHarming Treescrusades

It happened that when the containers were full, she said to her son, "Bring near me another container," but he said to her, "There is not another container." Then the olive oil stopped flowing.

Verse ConceptsDivine SuppliesCessationThings StoppingDebtpot

Then Naaman came with his horses and his chariots, and he stopped [at] the doorway of the house of Elisha.

Verse ConceptsHorses

Then he said, "Take the arrows," so he took [them]. He said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground," so he struck three times and stopped.

Verse ConceptsHalf HeartednessActing Three TimesArrows

Then David said to Ornan, "Please give me the place, the threshing floor, that I might build an altar on it to Yahweh; at full price please give it to me, that the plague against the people might be stopped."

Verse ConceptsBuilding Altars

"When the heavens are stopped up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you and they pray to this place and confess your name and turn back from their sin when you humble them,

Verse ConceptsClosing Up

And it happened [that] when Baasha heard [this], he stopped building Ramah and ceased his work.

And it happened [that] while he was speaking to him, he said to him, "Have we appointed you as a counselor to the king? Stop--{why should you be killed}?" So the prophet stopped and said, "I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my advice."

Verse ConceptsTwelve Beings

Then when a copy of the letter of King Artaxerxes was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their associates they returned in a hurry to Jerusalem against the Jews and they stopped them by force and power.

Verse ConceptsArtaxerxes The KingJews, TheHasty ActionReading Other Matter

Then the work on the house of God in Jerusalem stopped, and was discontinued until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Verse ConceptsHouse Of GodRebuilding The Templeconstruction

and over the Gate of Ephraim, at the Old Gate, at the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, and [to] the Sheep Gate. And they [stopped and] stood at the Gate of the Guard.

Verse ConceptsGatesNamed Gates

However, the king will rejoice in God. Everyone who swears an oath by him will boast, because [the] mouth of [the] liars will be stopped.

Verse ConceptsMutenessSilenceSwearing ByThe End Of Liars

Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and [so] the plague was stopped,

Verse ConceptsCessationThings Stopping

Let my outcasts [of] Moab dwell as aliens among you; be a hiding place for them from [the] presence of [the] destroyer." When the oppressor is no more, destruction has stopped, [the] {one who tramples has} disappeared from the land,

Verse ConceptsSatan as Destroyer

[the] joy of [the] tambourine has stopped. The noise of [the] jubilant has ceased; [the] joy of [the] lyre has stopped.

Verse ConceptsHarpsMusical Instruments, types ofCessationStopping RejoicingLack Of Rejoicingdrums

But {since} we stopped making smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything, and by the sword and by the famine we have perished.

Verse ConceptsFamine Killing

The joy of our hearts has stopped; our circle-dancing has changed to a mourning ceremony.

Verse ConceptsdanceCessationStopping RejoicingLack Of RejoicingPeople Mourning Catastrophe

All of them commit adultery, like a burning oven whose baker has stopped from stirring the fire, and from kneading [the] dough until it is leavened.

Verse ConceptsDoughBakingOvensWicked Described AsCessationLeavenedBaking BreadKneading DoughThose Who Committed Adultery

Bible Theasaurus

Arrest (38 instances)
Barricade (4 instances)
Block (12 instances)
Blockade (1 instance)
Check (14 instances)
Contain (24 instances)
Discontinue (1 instance)
Finish (80 instances)
Intercept (3 instances)
Stopped (184 instances)
Terminate (2 instances)