To cease
גָּמַרStrong’s H1584gamar (ga-mar)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gamar is the Hebrew word usually translated “may it come to an end”, “has come to an end” and “avenges”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.”
Meaning
- To end, come to an end, complete, cease(Qal)
- (TWOT) to fail, perfect, perform
How it's translated
- may it come to an end 1
- he has come to an end 1
- avenges 1
- has it come to an end 1
- he will avenge 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 12:1Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
- Psalms 57:2I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
- Psalms 77:8Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
- Psalms 138:8The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
Hebrew dictionary
גָּמַר gamar · to cease
1) to end, come to an end, complete, cease 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to come to an end, be no more 1a2) to bring to an end, complete 2) (TWOT) to fail, perfect, perform Aramaic equivalent: ge.mar (גְּמַר "to complete" H1585)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cease” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CEASE, verb intransitive
- 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
- To fail; to be wanting.“The poor shall never cease out of the land” Deuteronomy 15:11
- To stop; to be at an end; as, the wonder ceases; the storm has ceased.
- To be forgotten.“I would make the remembrance of them to cease” Deuteronomy 32:26
All definitions and other forms of “cease”
- To abstain; as, cease from anger. Psalms 37:8
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.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.