Strong's #3973: pauo (pronounced pow'-o)

a primary verb ("pause"); to stop (transitively or intransitively), i.e. restrain, quit, desist, come to an end:--cease, leave, refrain.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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pauō

1) to make to cease or desist

2) to restrain a thing or person from something

3) to cease, to leave off

4) have got release from sin

4a) no longer stirred by its incitements and seductions

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a root verb ("pause" )

Usage:

This word is used 15 times:

 

Luke 5:4: "Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out"
Luke 8:24: "of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm."
Luke 11:1: "a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said"
Acts 5:42: "the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach"
Acts 6:13: "which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words"
Acts 13:10: "of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways"
Acts 20:1: "And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples,"
Acts 20:31: "and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one"
Acts 21:32: "and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul."
1 Corinthians 13:8: "they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away."
Ephesians 1:16: " Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you"
Colossians 1:9: "day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and"
Hebrews 10:2: "For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshipers once"
1 Peter 3:10: "see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil,"
1 Peter 4:1: "he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;"