Strong G3973παύω
to cease
- Transliteration
- pauō
- Pronunciation
- pow'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
A primn. verb (pause); to stop (transitive or intransitive) that is restrain 6
quit desist 6
come to an end: - cease leave refrain.
quit desist 6
come to an end: - cease leave refrain.
Detailed definition
παύω
[in LXX for כָּלָה pi., etc.;]
to make to cease, restrain, hinder: with accusative of thing(s), before ἀπό 1Pe.3:10 (LXX). Mid., to cease, leave off: Luk.8:24 11:1, Act.20:1, 1Co.13:8; with ptcp., Luk.5:4, Act.5:42 6:13 13:10 20:31 21:32, Eph.1:16, Col.1:9, Heb.10:2; with genitive, ἀμαρτίας, 1Pe.4:1 (WH, mg., R, txt.); with dative, ib. (WH, txt., R, mg.).†
(AS)
[in LXX for כָּלָה pi., etc.;]
to make to cease, restrain, hinder: with accusative of thing(s), before ἀπό 1Pe.3:10 (LXX). Mid., to cease, leave off: Luk.8:24 11:1, Act.20:1, 1Co.13:8; with ptcp., Luk.5:4, Act.5:42 6:13 13:10 20:31 21:32, Eph.1:16, Col.1:9, Heb.10:2; with genitive, ἀμαρτίας, 1Pe.4:1 (WH, mg., R, txt.); with dative, ib. (WH, txt., R, mg.).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3973 appears in 15 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- cease11
- leave2
- ceaseth1
- do1
- refrain1
- thou1
- will1
First verses
- Luke 5:4Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
- Luke 8:24And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.
- Luke 11:1And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
- Acts 5:42And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
- Acts 6:13And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
- Acts 13:10And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
- Acts 20:1And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.
- Acts 20:31Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
- Acts 21:32Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.
- 1 Corinthians 13:8Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
- Ephesians 1:16Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
- Colossians 1:9For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
- Hebrews 10:2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
- 1 Peter 3:10For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
- 1 Peter 4:1Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
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Detailed Greek dictionary
παύω,
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.67, etc.)]: Ionic dialect imperfect παύεσκον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.315, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 963 (Lyric poetry))]: future παύσω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.207, etc.)]; Epic dialect infinitive παυσέμεν (κατα-) [Refs (7.36:)]aorist ἔπαυσα [Refs (15.15, etc.)], Epic dialect παῦσα [Refs (17.602)]: perfect πέπαυκα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.70, 4th c.BC: Antisthenes Rhetor “Ὀδυσσεύς” 10)]:—middle and passive, Ionic dialect imperfect παυέσκετο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.17)]: future παύσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.198, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.56, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1040, “Ph.” 1424, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 93, etc.)]; πεπαύσομαι only [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 91, “Tr.” 587 (though held to be the true _Attic dialect_ form by Moer. p.293 P.))]; παυσθήσομαι (variant παυθ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.81)]; later παήσομαι (ἀνα-) [NT (NT.Rev.14.13)]: aorist ἐπαυσάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.260)]; ἐπαύθην, Epic dialect παύθην, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 533, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.91 (variant{παυσθῇ}))], etc.; ἐπαύσθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.94, etc.; later ἐπάην 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 2.141)] H.: perfect πέπαυμαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.125, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 615, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.84, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 29, etc. (πεπάσθαι is _falsa lectio_ in Vett. Val. 359.31):)]
I causal, make to end,
I.1 with accusative only, bring to an end, check, sometimes of persons, ἵνα παύσομεν ἄγριον ἄνδρα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.314, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 963 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 330)]; stop or silence by death, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.274, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 397)]:—passive and middle, take one's rest, ἐνὶ κλισίῃ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.17, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.52, etc.)]; cease, have done, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.295, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.103, etc.)]; of one singing or speaking, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (17.359, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.8.δ)]: generally, middle denotes willing, passive forced, cessation.
I.1.b mostly of things, make an end of, stop, abate, χόλον, μένος, νεῖκος πολέμοιο, ῥόον, ὀδύνας, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.67, 1.282, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.543, 5.451, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.528, etc.; μέριμναν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).13 (assuming variant))]; λύπας ᾠδαῖς π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 197 (_anapaest meter_))], etc.; π. τόξον let the bow rest, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.279; π. τοὺς γάμους 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 575; πόντου σάλον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 1242)]; π. τὸν νόμον annul it, [Refs ([prev. author] “Or.” 571)]; π. τὸν λόγον close it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.6.7; τυραννίδα καταλύσαντα πεπαυκέναι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.70)]; π. τείχη raze them, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 69.9)]:—passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.91, etc.)]
I.2 with accusative person et genitive of things, hinder, keep back, or give one rest, from a thing, π. Ἕκτορα μάχης, πόνοιο Ἀχιλῆα, Θάμυριν ἀοιδῆς, Πηνελόπειαν κλαυθμοῖο, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.15, 21.137, 2.595, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.801)]; π. τινὰ ἀλκῆς, ἄλης, καμάτοιο, ὀδυνάων, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.250, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.342, 5.492, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.191; so π. χεῖρας πολέμοιο 21.294; ὀρχηθμοῖο πόδας 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.298; π. τινὰ τῆς βοῆς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 798; τῆς ὕβρεως 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1259; τῆς λυγγός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 185d)]; τῆς ἁμαρτίας καὶ ἀμα θίας [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Lg.” 784c; τῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.5)]; [τῆς νόσου] [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 42(1).121.71 (Epid., 4th c.BC))]; π. τινὰ τῆς βασιληΐης depose one from being king, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.123)]; τινὰ τῆς ἀρχῆς, τῆς στρατηγίας, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.6.3, “HG” 6.2.13; τῆς ἔξω ξυμμαχίας τινάς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.65; also π. τινὰ ἐκ κακῶν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 987; τινὰ ἀπὸ παιδαγωγῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 3.1; with _accusative_ unexpressed, αἴ κέ ποθι Ζεὺς.. παύσῃ ὀϊζύος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.35; φάρμαχ᾽ ἅ κεν παύσῃσι.. ὀδυνάων 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.191)]:—passive and middle, rest or cease from a thing, πολέμοιο, μάχης, ἔργων, πόνου, γόοιο, κλαυθμοῦ, ὀδυνάων, κλαγγῆς, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (21.432, 467, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.683, 24.384, 9.540, 17.7, 4.812, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.100, etc.)]; τῆς μάχης, τοῦ δρόμου, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.74, 4.124; γόων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1211; τῆς ὀργῆς 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.6; φιλανθρώπου τρόπου 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 11)]; παύεσθαι ἀρχῆς to be deposed from, or reach the term of, office, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.56, compare 6.66, “IG” 12.114.46; ἐκ μεγάλων ἀχέων παυσαίμεθ᾽ ἄν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1531 (Lyric poetry); ἐκ τρόχων πεπαυμένοι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 46, compare “El.” 1108.)]
I.3 with present participle, stop a person from.., π. τινὰ ἀριστεύοντα stop him from doing bravely, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.506; τὸν ἄνδρα παῦσον ταῦτα ποιεῦντα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.23)]; γελῶντας ἐχθροὺς π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1295; παύσω δέ σ᾽ ὄντ᾽ ἄπαιδα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 717)]:—passive and middle, leave off doing.., ὅθ᾽ ὕπνος ἕλοι, παύσαιτό τε νηπιαχεύων when he stopped playing, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.502, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 615, “Ag.” 1047, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.133, etc.)]; of things, ἄνεμος μὲν ἐπαύσατο.. θύων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.400: the)]participle is frequently to be supplied, αἷμα, φλόξ, ἄνεμος ἐπαύσατο, the blood stopped [flowing], the fire [burning], the wind [blowing], [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.267, 23.228, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.168, etc.)]; so Ῥοδώπιος πέρι πέπαυμαι (i.e. λέγων) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.135, compare 7.10.)]
I.4 less frequently with infinitive, stop a person from.., ἔμ᾽ ἔπαυσας ἐπὶ Τρώεσσι μάχεσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.442; ῥαψῳδοὺς ἔπαυσε ἀγωνίζεσθαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.67, compare 7.54: sometimes with μή)] inserted, θνητούς γ᾽ ἔπαυσα μὴ προδέρκεσθαι μόρον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 250; παύσας ὑμᾶς μὴ λίαν ἐξαπατᾶσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 634; also π. τὸ μὴ προσελθεῖν.. τὴν ὁλκάδα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.53; π. τοῦ.. εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 416c.)]
I.4.b middle with infinitive, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (Batrachomyomachia 193, “Anthologia Graeca” 6.21.8, and later Prose, as 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.216d.)]
I.5 middle, yield, give, of timber, opposed to ἵστασθαι, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 5.6.3.)]
II intransitive in imperative παῦε, cease, leave off (παύου is rare, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ichn.” 359, 4th c.BC: Ephippus Comicus 5.20, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Im.” 2), παῦε μάχης 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 449 codices, compare “hymnus ad Cererem” 351; παῦε γόοιο “epigram Gr.” 320.5 (from Thyatira): mostly _absolutely_, παῦε)] stop! have done! be quiet! παῦε, μὴ λέξῃς πέρα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1275, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1208, “Ra.” 122, 269, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 228e; παῦε, παῦε, μὴ βόα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1504, compare “V.” 1194; also παῦε, παῦε τοῦ λόγου [prev. author] “Ra.” 580; παῦε, παῦ᾽ ὀρχούμενος [prev. author] “Pax” 326; παῦ᾽ ἐς κόρακας [prev. author] “Ach.” 864)], where the other Verbs are plural; παῦ, apocalyptic for παῦε, παῦ, μηδὲν ὄμνυ᾽ [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Σαμία” 96, compare 2nd c.AD: Aelius Dionysius Grammaticus “fragment” 275, etc.)]: also imperative middle, παῦσαι λέγουσα [Refs 6th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 706; παῦσαι φαρμακοπωλῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 28; π. μελῳδοῦσ᾽ “Comica Adespota” 601; π. δυσωνῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 224, compare 5th c.BC: Theopompus Comicus 62, {5-6th c.BC}: Philetaerus Comicus 6, 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 213.1)]; παύσασθε νοῦν ἔχοντες (to be read λέγοντες) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 482.1.)]
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.67, etc.)]: Ionic dialect imperfect παύεσκον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.315, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 963 (Lyric poetry))]: future παύσω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.207, etc.)]; Epic dialect infinitive παυσέμεν (κατα-) [Refs (7.36:)]aorist ἔπαυσα [Refs (15.15, etc.)], Epic dialect παῦσα [Refs (17.602)]: perfect πέπαυκα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.70, 4th c.BC: Antisthenes Rhetor “Ὀδυσσεύς” 10)]:—middle and passive, Ionic dialect imperfect παυέσκετο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.17)]: future παύσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.198, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.56, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1040, “Ph.” 1424, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 93, etc.)]; πεπαύσομαι only [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 91, “Tr.” 587 (though held to be the true _Attic dialect_ form by Moer. p.293 P.))]; παυσθήσομαι (variant παυθ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.81)]; later παήσομαι (ἀνα-) [NT (NT.Rev.14.13)]: aorist ἐπαυσάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.260)]; ἐπαύθην, Epic dialect παύθην, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 533, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.91 (variant{παυσθῇ}))], etc.; ἐπαύσθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.94, etc.; later ἐπάην 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 2.141)] H.: perfect πέπαυμαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.125, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 615, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.84, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 29, etc. (πεπάσθαι is _falsa lectio_ in Vett. Val. 359.31):)]
I causal, make to end,
I.1 with accusative only, bring to an end, check, sometimes of persons, ἵνα παύσομεν ἄγριον ἄνδρα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.314, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 963 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 330)]; stop or silence by death, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.274, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 397)]:—passive and middle, take one's rest, ἐνὶ κλισίῃ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.17, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.52, etc.)]; cease, have done, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.295, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.103, etc.)]; of one singing or speaking, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (17.359, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.8.δ)]: generally, middle denotes willing, passive forced, cessation.
I.1.b mostly of things, make an end of, stop, abate, χόλον, μένος, νεῖκος πολέμοιο, ῥόον, ὀδύνας, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.67, 1.282, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.543, 5.451, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.528, etc.; μέριμναν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).13 (assuming variant))]; λύπας ᾠδαῖς π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 197 (_anapaest meter_))], etc.; π. τόξον let the bow rest, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.279; π. τοὺς γάμους 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 575; πόντου σάλον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 1242)]; π. τὸν νόμον annul it, [Refs ([prev. author] “Or.” 571)]; π. τὸν λόγον close it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.6.7; τυραννίδα καταλύσαντα πεπαυκέναι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.70)]; π. τείχη raze them, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 69.9)]:—passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.91, etc.)]
I.2 with accusative person et genitive of things, hinder, keep back, or give one rest, from a thing, π. Ἕκτορα μάχης, πόνοιο Ἀχιλῆα, Θάμυριν ἀοιδῆς, Πηνελόπειαν κλαυθμοῖο, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.15, 21.137, 2.595, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.801)]; π. τινὰ ἀλκῆς, ἄλης, καμάτοιο, ὀδυνάων, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.250, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.342, 5.492, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.191; so π. χεῖρας πολέμοιο 21.294; ὀρχηθμοῖο πόδας 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.298; π. τινὰ τῆς βοῆς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 798; τῆς ὕβρεως 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1259; τῆς λυγγός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 185d)]; τῆς ἁμαρτίας καὶ ἀμα θίας [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Lg.” 784c; τῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.5)]; [τῆς νόσου] [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 42(1).121.71 (Epid., 4th c.BC))]; π. τινὰ τῆς βασιληΐης depose one from being king, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.123)]; τινὰ τῆς ἀρχῆς, τῆς στρατηγίας, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.6.3, “HG” 6.2.13; τῆς ἔξω ξυμμαχίας τινάς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.65; also π. τινὰ ἐκ κακῶν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 987; τινὰ ἀπὸ παιδαγωγῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 3.1; with _accusative_ unexpressed, αἴ κέ ποθι Ζεὺς.. παύσῃ ὀϊζύος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.35; φάρμαχ᾽ ἅ κεν παύσῃσι.. ὀδυνάων 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.191)]:—passive and middle, rest or cease from a thing, πολέμοιο, μάχης, ἔργων, πόνου, γόοιο, κλαυθμοῦ, ὀδυνάων, κλαγγῆς, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (21.432, 467, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.683, 24.384, 9.540, 17.7, 4.812, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.100, etc.)]; τῆς μάχης, τοῦ δρόμου, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.74, 4.124; γόων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1211; τῆς ὀργῆς 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.6; φιλανθρώπου τρόπου 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 11)]; παύεσθαι ἀρχῆς to be deposed from, or reach the term of, office, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.56, compare 6.66, “IG” 12.114.46; ἐκ μεγάλων ἀχέων παυσαίμεθ᾽ ἄν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1531 (Lyric poetry); ἐκ τρόχων πεπαυμένοι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 46, compare “El.” 1108.)]
I.3 with present participle, stop a person from.., π. τινὰ ἀριστεύοντα stop him from doing bravely, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.506; τὸν ἄνδρα παῦσον ταῦτα ποιεῦντα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.23)]; γελῶντας ἐχθροὺς π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1295; παύσω δέ σ᾽ ὄντ᾽ ἄπαιδα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 717)]:—passive and middle, leave off doing.., ὅθ᾽ ὕπνος ἕλοι, παύσαιτό τε νηπιαχεύων when he stopped playing, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.502, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 615, “Ag.” 1047, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.133, etc.)]; of things, ἄνεμος μὲν ἐπαύσατο.. θύων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.400: the)]participle is frequently to be supplied, αἷμα, φλόξ, ἄνεμος ἐπαύσατο, the blood stopped [flowing], the fire [burning], the wind [blowing], [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.267, 23.228, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.168, etc.)]; so Ῥοδώπιος πέρι πέπαυμαι (i.e. λέγων) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.135, compare 7.10.)]
I.4 less frequently with infinitive, stop a person from.., ἔμ᾽ ἔπαυσας ἐπὶ Τρώεσσι μάχεσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.442; ῥαψῳδοὺς ἔπαυσε ἀγωνίζεσθαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.67, compare 7.54: sometimes with μή)] inserted, θνητούς γ᾽ ἔπαυσα μὴ προδέρκεσθαι μόρον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 250; παύσας ὑμᾶς μὴ λίαν ἐξαπατᾶσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 634; also π. τὸ μὴ προσελθεῖν.. τὴν ὁλκάδα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.53; π. τοῦ.. εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 416c.)]
I.4.b middle with infinitive, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (Batrachomyomachia 193, “Anthologia Graeca” 6.21.8, and later Prose, as 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.216d.)]
I.5 middle, yield, give, of timber, opposed to ἵστασθαι, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 5.6.3.)]
II intransitive in imperative παῦε, cease, leave off (παύου is rare, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ichn.” 359, 4th c.BC: Ephippus Comicus 5.20, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Im.” 2), παῦε μάχης 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 449 codices, compare “hymnus ad Cererem” 351; παῦε γόοιο “epigram Gr.” 320.5 (from Thyatira): mostly _absolutely_, παῦε)] stop! have done! be quiet! παῦε, μὴ λέξῃς πέρα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1275, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1208, “Ra.” 122, 269, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 228e; παῦε, παῦε, μὴ βόα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1504, compare “V.” 1194; also παῦε, παῦε τοῦ λόγου [prev. author] “Ra.” 580; παῦε, παῦ᾽ ὀρχούμενος [prev. author] “Pax” 326; παῦ᾽ ἐς κόρακας [prev. author] “Ach.” 864)], where the other Verbs are plural; παῦ, apocalyptic for παῦε, παῦ, μηδὲν ὄμνυ᾽ [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Σαμία” 96, compare 2nd c.AD: Aelius Dionysius Grammaticus “fragment” 275, etc.)]: also imperative middle, παῦσαι λέγουσα [Refs 6th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 706; παῦσαι φαρμακοπωλῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 28; π. μελῳδοῦσ᾽ “Comica Adespota” 601; π. δυσωνῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 224, compare 5th c.BC: Theopompus Comicus 62, {5-6th c.BC}: Philetaerus Comicus 6, 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 213.1)]; παύσασθε νοῦν ἔχοντες (to be read λέγοντες) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 482.1.)]