κατάπαυσις
resting place
‘resting place’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
7 distinct verses where G2663 appears in the Accusative case, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Hebrews 7 verses
- Hebrews 3:11 κατάπαυσίν n acc sg fem As I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"
- Hebrews 3:18 κατάπαυσιν n acc sg fem To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
- Hebrews 4:1 κατάπαυσιν n acc sg fem Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps a promise being left of entering into his rest, anyone of you should seem to have come short of it.
- Hebrews 4:3 κατάπαυσιν κατάπαυσίν n acc sg fem n acc sg fem For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
- Hebrews 4:5 κατάπαυσίν n acc sg fem and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest."
- Hebrews 4:10 κατάπαυσιν n acc sg fem For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.
- Hebrews 4:11 κατάπαυσιν n acc sg fem Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
καταπαυσις — transliterated katápausis — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “resting place.” More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Hebrews. It appears 8 verses across 2 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. Debuting at Acts 7:49, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2663 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Hebrews 7 verses · 88%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Rest 9×
- American Standard Version: Rest 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Rest 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Rest 9×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2663 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2663 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2663 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2663 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- calming of the winds
- metaph. the heavenly blessedness in which God dwells…
Word origin
Derived from καταπαυω (katapaúō) (G2664) — to rest.
From G2664 ; reposing down that is (by hebraism) abode : - rest.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G2663 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κατάπαυσιν katápausin | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 3:18 | 5 |
| κατάπαυσίν katápausín | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 3:11 | 3 |
| καταπαύσεώς katapaúseṓs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Acts 7:49 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word καταπαυσις appears 9 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 9 verses in 8 books.
- 9
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 9
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 35:2 κατάπαυσις
- Numbers 10:35 κατάπαυσις
- Deuteronomy 12:9 κατάπαυσις
- 1 Kings 8:56 κατάπαυσις
- 1 Chronicles 6:16 κατάπαυσις
- 2 Chronicles 6:41 κατάπαυσις
- Psalms 94:11 κατάπαυσις
- Isaiah 66:1 κατάπαυσις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2663) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 35:2 κατάπαυσις 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.
- Numbers 10:35 κατάπαυσις It happened, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered; and let those who hate you flee before you.
- Deuteronomy 12:9 κατάπαυσις for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you.
- 1 Kings 8:56 κατάπαυσις Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.
- 1 Chronicles 6:16 κατάπαυσις The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
- 2 Chronicles 6:41 κατάπαυσις Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting-place, you, and the ark of your strength: let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.
- Psalms 94:11 κατάπαυσις Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, That they are futile.
- Psalms 131:14 κατάπαυσις
- Isaiah 66:1 κατάπαυσις Thus says Yahweh, heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will you build to me? and what place shall be my rest?
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2663) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
