# G2664 καταπαύω

καταπαύω (katapaúō), Strong’s G2664: to settle down, i.e. (literally) to colonize, or (figuratively) to (cause to) desist KJV: cease, (give) rest(-rain). Occurs 65 times.

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*katapaúō* — to settle down, i.e. (literally) to colonize, or (figuratively) to (cause to) desist

KJV: cease, (give) rest(-rain)

Built from [κατά katá](https://besorah.bible/word/G2596) (about) + [παύω paúō](https://besorah.bible/word/G3973) (to stop)

Occurs 65 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Acts 14:18](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/14?v=18) — Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.
- [Hebrews 4:4](https://besorah.bible/besorah/hebrews/4?v=4) — For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works;”
- [Hebrews 4:8](https://besorah.bible/besorah/hebrews/4?v=8) — For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.
- [Hebrews 4:10](https://besorah.bible/besorah/hebrews/4?v=10) — For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.
- [Judith 6:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/judith/6?v=1) — And when the disturbance of the men that were around the council had ceased, Holofernes the chief captain of the army…
- [Sirach 5:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/5?v=6) — Don’t say, “His compassion is great. He will be pacified for the multitude of my sins,” for mercy and wrath are with…
- [Sirach 10:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/10?v=17) — 
- [Sirach 24:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/24?v=8) — 
- [Sirach 24:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/24?v=11) — 
- [Sirach 38:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/38?v=23) — When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest. Be comforted for him when his spirit departs from him.