ἀνάπαυσις
rest
‘rest’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G372 appears in the Book of Revelation — 2 distinct verses. 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.
Revelation
- Revelation 4:8 ἀνάπαυσιν n acc sg fem The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around about and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!"
- Revelation 14:11 ἀνάπαυσιν n acc sg fem The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.
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.
“rest” is the headline sense of the Greek noun αναπαυσις (anápausis). It is rare — just 5 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Matthew, which alone accounts for 40% of its uses. First canonically at Matthew 11:29, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G372 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 2 verses 40%
- Revelation 2 verses 40%
- Luke 1 verse 20%
By section of the New Testament
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 5 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 60%
- Johannine 2 verses · 40%
- Revelation 2 verses · 40%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 20%
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 4×
- American Standard Version: Rest 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Rest 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Rest 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G372 across 5 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G372 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G372 across 5 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 G372 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- intermission, cessation of any motion, business or labour
- rest, recreation
Word origin
Derived from αναπαυω (anapaúō) (G373) — to rest.
From G373 ; intermission ; by implication recreation : - rest.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αναπαυσις appears 43 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 42 verses in 14 books.
- 43
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 42
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 8:9 ἀνάπαυσις
- Exodus 16:23 ἀνάπαυσις
- Leviticus 16:31 ἀνάπαυσις
- Numbers 10:33 ἀνάπαυσις
- Ruth 1:9 ἀνάπαυσις
- 1 Chronicles 22:9 ἀνάπαυσις
- Esther 9:17 ἀνάπαυσις
- Job 7:18 ἀνάπαυσις
- Psalms 22:2 ἀνάπαυσις
- Ecclesiastes 4:6 ἀνάπαυσις
- Isaiah 11:10 ἀνάπαυσις
- Jeremiah 51:33 ἀνάπαυσις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G372) 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.
- Genesis 8:9 ἀνάπαυσις but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.
- Genesis 49:15 ἀνάπαυσις He saw a resting-place, that it was good, The land, that it was pleasant; He bows his shoulder to the burden, And becomes a servant doing forced labor.
- Exodus 16:23 ἀνάπαυσις He said to them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning."
- Exodus 23:12 ἀνάπαυσις "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.
- Exodus 31:15 ἀνάπαυσις Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.
- Exodus 35:2 ἀνάπαυσις '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.
- Leviticus 16:31 ἀνάπαυσις It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is a statute forever.
- Leviticus 23:3 ἀνάπαυσις "'Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no manner of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
- Leviticus 23:24 ἀνάπαυσις "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
- Leviticus 23:39 ἀνάπαυσις "'So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
- Leviticus 25:4 ἀνάπαυσις but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
- Leviticus 25:5 ἀνάπαυσις What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
- Leviticus 25:8 ἀνάπαυσις "'You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.
- Numbers 10:33 ἀνάπαυσις They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting-place for them.
- Ruth 1:9 ἀνάπαυσις Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
- Ruth 3:1 ἀνάπαυσις Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?
- 1 Chronicles 22:9 ἀνάπαυσις Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days:
- 1 Chronicles 28:2 ἀνάπαυσις Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, Hear me, my brothers, and my people: as for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and for the footstool of our God; and I had made ready for the building.
- Esther 9:17 ἀνάπαυσις [This was done] on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
- Job 7:18 ἀνάπαυσις That you should visit him every morning, And test him every moment?
- Job 21:13 ἀνάπαυσις They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
- Psalms 22:2 ἀνάπαυσις My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; In the night season, and am not silent.
- Psalms 114:7 ἀνάπαυσις Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob,
- Psalms 131:4 ἀνάπαυσις
- Psalms 131:8 ἀνάπαυσις
- Ecclesiastes 4:6 ἀνάπαυσις Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 6:5 ἀνάπαυσις Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.
- Ecclesiastes 9:17 ἀνάπαυσις The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.
- Isaiah 11:10 ἀνάπαυσις It shall happen in that day, that the root of Jesse, who stands for an ensign of the peoples, to him shall the nations seek; and his resting-place shall be glorious.
- Isaiah 14:3 ἀνάπαυσις It shall happen in the day that Yahweh shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,
- Isaiah 17:2 ἀνάπαυσις The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
- Isaiah 23:12 ἀνάπαυσις He said, You shall no more rejoice, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shall you have no rest.
- Isaiah 23:13 ἀνάπαυσις Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness; they set up their towers; they overthrew the palaces of it; they made it a ruin.
- Isaiah 25:10 ἀνάπαυσις For in this mountain will the hand of Yahweh rest; and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dung-hill.
- Isaiah 28:2 ἀνάπαυσις Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand.
- Isaiah 32:17 ἀνάπαυσις The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
- Isaiah 34:14 ἀνάπαυσις The wild animals of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yes, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.
- Isaiah 37:28 ἀνάπαυσις But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me.
- Isaiah 65:10 ἀνάπαυσις Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.
- Jeremiah 51:33 ἀνάπαυσις For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.
- Lamentations 1:3 ἀνάπαυσις Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; She dwells among the nations, she finds no rest: All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
- Micah 2:10 ἀνάπαυσις Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, Because of uncleanness that destroys, Even with a grievous destruction.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G372) 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.
