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Strong's #2663: katapausis (pronounced kat-ap'-ow-sis)

from 2664; reposing down, i.e. (by Hebraism) abode:--rest.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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katapausis

1) a putting to rest

1a) calming of the winds

2) a resting place

2a) metaphorically the heavenly blessedness in which God dwells, and of which he has promised to make persevering believers in Christ partakers after the toils and trials of life on earth are ended

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G2664

Citing in TDNT: 3:628, 419




Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

Acts 7:49: "or what is the place of my rest?"
Hebrews 3:11: "shall not enter into my rest.)"
Hebrews 3:18: "enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?"
Hebrews 4:1: "us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem"
Hebrews 4:3: "we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn"
Hebrews 4:3: "they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished"
Hebrews 4:5: "they shall enter into my rest."
Hebrews 4:10: "he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from"
Hebrews 4:11: "to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after"









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