Cease
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Genesis 8:22
- Last Reference: 2 Peter 2:14
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1820 Used 1 time
- H1826 Used 1 time
- H2308 Used 12 times
- H2790 Used 1 time
- H3254 Used 1 time
- H3615 Used 1 time
- H4185 Used 1 time
- H6565 Used 1 time
- H7503 Used 1 time
- H7673 Used 37 times
- H7674 Used 1 time
- H7918 Used 1 time
- H8552 Used 1 time
- H988 Used 1 time
- H989 Used 3 times
- G180 Used 1 time
- G3973 Used 4 times
CEASE, verb intransitive
1. To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave of; to give over; followed by from before a noun.
It is an honor for a man to cease from strife. Proverbs 20:3.
2. To fail; to be wanting.
The poor shall never cease out of the land. Deuteronomy 15:11.
3. To stop; to be at an end; as, the wonder ceases; the storm has ceased.
4. To be forgotten.
I would make the remembrance of them to cease Deuteronomy 32:26.
5. To abstain; as, cease from anger. Psalms 37:8.
To cease from labor, is to rest; to cease from strife, is to be quiet; but in such phrases, the sense of cease is not varied.
CEASE, verb transitive To put a stop to; to put an end to. cease this impious rage. [But in this use the phrase is generally elliptical, ]
CEASE, noun Extinction.
CEASELESS, adjective
1. Without a stop or pause; incessant; continual; without intermission.
All these with ceaseless praise his works behold.
2. Endless; enduring for ever; as the ceaseless joys of heaven.
CEASELESSLY, adverb Incessantly; perpetually.