KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: To cease from labour or motion, lie still, settle, remain, or rely; also repose, peace, security, or an abiding place. Sense 2: The remaining persons or things after a part is distinguished.
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First occurrence: Genesis 8:9
Complete exact-word concordance
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
For now should I haue lien still and beene quiet, I should haue slept; then had I bene at rest,
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
There the wicked cease from troubling: and there the wearie be at rest.
1611 marginal noteHeb. wearied in strength.
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
There the prisoners rest together, they heare not the voice of the oppressour.
I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
I was not in safetie, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet: yet trouble came.
And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
And thou shalt be secure because there is hope, yea thou shalt digge about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
Turne from him that hee may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hircling, his day.
1611 marginal noteHeb. cease.
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
They shall goe downe to the barres of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
My bones are pierced in mee in the night season: and my sinewes take no rest.
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