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To stop

φράσσωStrong’s G5420

phrassō

Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament

In short

Phrassō is the Greek word usually translated “may be stopped”, “stopped” and “shut”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.

“Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.”
Romans 3:19 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “may be stopped”, “stopped” and “shut”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • may be stopped 1
  • will be stopped 1
  • shut 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Romans 1
  • 2 Corinthians 1
  • Hebrews 1

3 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

φράσσω phrassō · to stop

φράσσω [in LXX: Job.38:8 (סָכַךְ hi.), Hos.2:6(8) (שׂוּךְ), Pro.21:13 (אָטַם), etc. ;] to fence in, stop, close: στόματα λεόντων, Heb.11:33; στόμα, metaphorically, Rom.3:19; pass., καύχησις, 2Co.11:10.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “stop” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

STOP, verb transitive

[G., to stop to check, to pose, to fill, to cram, to stuff, to quilt, to darn, to mend. See Stifle. Latin, tow; to stuff, to crowd; to be stupefied, whence stupid, stupor, [that is, to stop or a stop ]

The primary sense is either to cease to move, or to stuff, to press, to thrust in, to cram; probably the latter.]

  1. To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop a vent; to stop the ears; to stop wells of water. 2 Kings 3:19
  2. To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road or passage.
  3. To hinder; to impede; to arrest progress; as, to stop a passenger in the road; to stop the course of a stream.
  4. To restrain; to hinder; to suspend; as to stop the execution of a decree.
All definitions and other forms of “stop”
  1. To repress; to suppress; to restrain; as, to stop the progress of vice.
  2. To hinder; to check; as, to stop the approaches of old age or infirmity.
  3. To hinder from action or practice.
  4. To put an end to any motion or action; to intercept; as, to stop the breath; to stop proceedings.
  5. To regulate the sounds of musical strings; as, to stop a string.
  6. In seamanship, to make fast.
  7. To point; as a written composition. [Not in use.]

STOP, verb intransitive

  1. To cease to go forward.
  2. To cease from any motion or course of action.

STOP, noun

  1. Cessation of progressive motion; as, to make a stop
  2. Hindrance of progress; obstruction; act of stopping.
  3. Repression; hindrance of operation or action.
  4. Interruption.
  5. Prohibition of sale; as the stop of wine and salt.
  6. That which obstructs; obstacle; impediment.
  7. The instrument by which the sounds of wind music are regulated; as the stops of a flute or an organ.
  8. Regulation of musical chords by the fingers.
  9. The act of applying the stops in music.
  10. A point or mark in writing, intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence or clauses, and to show the proper pauses in reading.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.