To cease
שָׁבַתStrong’s H7673shavat (sha-vat)
Appears in 67 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shavat is the Hebrew word usually translated “put an end to”, “cause to cease” and “it will cease”. It appears in 67 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”
Meaning
- To cease, desist, rest(Qal) · (Niphal) to cease · (Hiphil)
- (Qal) to keep or observe the sabbath
How it's translated
- and i will put an end to 7
- and i will cause to cease 6
- and it will cease 4
- it has ceased 4
- you will rest 3
- he rested 2
- they will cease 2
- it will cease 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 13
- Isaiah 8
- Exodus 6
- Leviticus 6
- Jeremiah 6
- Psalms 4
19 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 11:18In contextAfter this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.
- Genesis 2:2And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
- Genesis 2:3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
- Genesis 8:22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
- Exodus 5:5And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
- Exodus 12:15Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
All 67 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁבַת shavat · to cease
1) to cease, desist, rest 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cease 1a2) to rest, desist (from labour) 1b) (Niphal) to cease 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to cease, put an end to 1c2) to exterminate, destroy 1c3) to cause to desist from 1c4) to remove 1c5) to cause to fail
שָׁבַת shavat · to keep
(Qal) to keep or observe the sabbath
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.