Cessation
פּוּגַתStrong’s H6314pugah (pu-gah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Pugah is the Hebrew word usually translated “rest”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.”
Meaning
- Benumbing, cessation, rest, relief
How it's translated
- rest 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Lamentations 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
פּוּגַת pugah · cessation
benumbing, cessation, rest, relief
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cessation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CESSATION, noun
- A ceasing; a stop; a rest; the act of discontinuing motion or action of any kind, whether temporary or final.
- A ceasing or suspension of operation, force or effect; as a cessation of the laws of nature.
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.