6 occurrences

'Stopped' in the Bible

So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfGod's Activity In The NationsWork, Divine And HumanAnger Of God, Examples OfDeparturesScattering The PeoplesCessation

Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped up by filling them with earth.

Verse ConceptsExcavationStopping WellsTimes Of People

Then Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the same names which his father had given them.

Verse ConceptsStopping WellsPeople Naming ThingsTimes Of People

And she conceived again and bore a son and said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

Verse ConceptsCessationShowing Forth His PraisePeople With Apt Nameschildbearing

When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesCessationGiving In Marriage

Thus Joseph stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.

Verse ConceptsAn Innumerable NumberSandImpossible For PeoplePlenty In EgyptSand And Gravel

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)

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