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cease

Meaning of “cease”

To stop or leave off, to come to an end, or to cause something to stop or end.

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70 occurrences70 verses26 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Genesis 8:22

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Showing verses 1–9 of 9 · 9 word occurrences in this result

Isaiah 1:16
¶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 1:16 · retained source text

¶ Wash yee, make you cleane, put away the euill of your doings from before mine eyes, cease to doe euill,

1611 marginal note1.Pet.3.11.

Isaiah 2:22
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 2:22 · retained source text

Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrels: for wherein is hee to be accounted of?

Isaiah 10:25
For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 10:25 · retained source text

For yet a very litle while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.

Isaiah 13:11
And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 13:11 · retained source text

And I will punish the world for their euill, and the wicked for their iniquitie; and I will cause the arrogancie of the proud to cease, and will lay low the hautinesse of the terrible.

Isaiah 16:10
And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 16:10 · retained source text

And gladnesse is taken away, and ioy out of the plentifull field, and in the Uineyards there shalbe no singing, neither shal there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I haue made their vintage shouting to cease.

1611 marginal noteIere.48.33.

Isaiah 17:3
The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 17:3 · retained source text

The fortresse also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdome from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall bee as the glorie of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hostes.

Isaiah 21:2
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 21:2 · retained source text

A grieuous vision is declared vnto me; The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth: Goe, vp O Elam: besiege, O Media: all the sighing thereof haue I made to cease.

1611 marginal noteHeb. hard.

Isaiah 30:11
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 30:11 · retained source text

Get ye out of the way: turne aside out of the path: cause the Holy one of Israel to cease from before vs.

Isaiah 33:1
WOE to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 33:1 · retained source text

¶ Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee: when thou shalt cease to spoile, thou shalt bee spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deale treacherously, they shall deale treacherously with thee.

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