Rest, to (to give rest, to restrain) (2664) katapauo

Rested (2664) (katapauo from kata = down, here intensifying the meaning of + pauo = make to cease) means to cause to cease some activity (resulting in a period of rest), to make quite, to cause to be at rest, to grant rest. There is one NT use with the nuance of to restrain (Acts 14:18). Note that the verb anapauo can mean to rest inwardly, but not necessarily from a cessation of work as is expressed by katapauo [word study]. Mouton and Milligan list a use of katapauo referring to a musical pause. Here are the 4 NT uses of Katapauo... Acts 14:18 And even saying these things, they with difficulty restrained the crowds from offering sacrifice to them. Hebrews 4:4 For He has thus said somewhere concerning the seventh day, "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works"; Hebrews 4:8 For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that. Hebrews 4:10 For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. Katapauo is used 54 times in the Septuagint (LXX) (Gen. 2:2-3; 8:22; 33" class="scriptRef">49:33; Exod. 5:5; 10:14; 16:13; 11" class="scriptRef">20:11; 31:17-18; 33:14; 34:21, 33; Num. 25:11; Deut. 3:20; 5:33; 12:10; 25:19; 33:12; Jos. 1:13, 15; 3:13; 10:20; 11:23; 21:44; 22:4; 23:1; Ruth 2:7; 2 Sam. 21:10; 1 Ki. 12:24; 2 Ki. 23:5, 11; 1 Chr. 23:25; 2 Chr. 14:6f; 15:15; 16:5; 20:30; 32:22; Neh. 4:11; 6:3; Job 21:34; 26:12; Ps. 55:6; 85:3; Eccl. 10:4; Lam. 3:11; 5:14; Ezek. 1:24; Dan. 11:18; Hos. 1:4; 11:6). Below are some representative uses in the Septuagint... Joshua 1:13 "Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, 'The LORD your God gives you rest, (Lxx = katapauo) and will give you this land.' Joshua 11:23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Thus the land had rest (Lxx = katapauo) from war. Joshua 21:44 And the LORD gave them rest (Lxx = katapauo) on every side, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers, and no one of all their enemies stood before them; the LORD gave all their enemies into their hand. Psalm 55:6 And I said, "Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest. (Lxx = katapauo) Katapauo and katapausis appear to differ in meaning from anapauo and anapausis in that the emphasis of katapauo and katapausis is more upon the cessation of activity resulting in rest rather than upon the mere restorative character of rest. (See excursus on Rest in Hebrews 4) Works - plural, following the Septuagint. The Hebrew has "work." This does not mean that God entered a state of idleness, for there is a sense in which he is continually at work (Jn 5:17). Hebrews 1:3 (see note) in fact teaches that He upholds (present tense = continually) all things by the word of His power Hebrews 4:5 and again in this passage, "THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST." (NASB: Lockman) Greek: kai en touto palin, Ei eiseleusontai (3PFMI) eis ten katapausin mou. Amplified: And [they forfeited their part in it, for] in this [passage] He said, They shall not enter My rest. (Amplified Bible - Lockman) Barclay: And it says in the same place: “Very certainly they shall not enter into my rest.” (Westminster Press) KJV: And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. NLT: But in the other passage God said, "They will never enter my place of rest. (NLT - Tyndale House) Phillips: And in the passage above he refers to "my rest" as something already in existence. (Phillips: Touchstone) Wuest: And in this place again, They shall certainly not enter my rest. (Eerdmans) Young's Literal: and in this [place] again, `If they shall enter into My rest' AND AGAIN IN THIS PASSAGE, "THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST: kai en touto palin Ei eiseleusontai (3PFMI) eis ten katapausin mou: And again - Repetition from Hebrews 4:3. Whenever Scripture repeats words (e.g., "Truly, truly...", etc), it is not because God is "stuttering" but because He is serious! He wants this truth to penetrate our "thick skulls", our "hard hearts", so that we might bend our "stiff necks"! Today is the day to respond to His repetitive warning. They shall not enter - Why not? Repeatedly the primary impediment is unbelief or a lack of faith which is manifest by disobedience. QUOTING FROM PSALM 95:11 Psalm 95:11 is being quoted by the writer and below is a list of the 9 different quotations from Psalm 95 in Hebrews 3-4... He 3:7 <> Ps 95:7 He 3:8 <> Ps 95:8 He 3:9 <> Ps 95:9, 10a He 3:10 <> Ps 95:10 He 3:11 <> Ps 95:11 He 3:15 <> Ps 95:7, 8 He 4:3 <> Ps 95:11 He 4:5 <> Ps 95:11 He 4:7 <> Ps 95:7, 8 It is interesting to note that Psalm 95 is one of a series of Psalm 93 through Psalm 100 which have been referred to by a variety of names - Apocalyptic Psalms, Theocratic Psalms (Delitzsch), Millennial Anthems (Tholuck), Songs of the Millennium (Binnie), Group of Millennial Psalms (Herder), Second Advent Psalms (Rawlinson), Enthronement Psalms (Mowinckel) and Royal Psalms (Perowne). Clearly this group has a strong prophetic flavor and specifically alludes to that time (Millennium) when the Lord Jesus Christ alone will be King reigning over all peoples and lands (Ps 93:1 ; 96:10 ; 97:1 ; 99:1). As Walter Kaiser says... each of these psalms alike tells the story of a divine kingdom which is yet to be set up on the earth (Ed: (The 1000 Year Kingdom = the "Messianic Age"). It anticipates the universal outburst of joy which shall greet this future event... Now the interesting point to be made in connection with our study is that the divine rest is set in the context of these psalms celebrating the second advent of our Lord. Participation in this kingdom of God, this rest of God, is to be made now on the basis of a decision in the present moment before those events connected with the second coming overtake anyone. (Ref) MacDonald comments that... To reinforce the idea that the reference to God’s rest after creation does not mean that it is a closed issue, the writer again quotes with slight change from Psalm 95:11, where the future tense is used, “They shall not enter My rest.” He is saying, in effect, “In your thinking, do not confine God’s rest to what happened back in Genesis 2; remember that God later spoke about His rest as something that was still available. (MacDonald, W & Farstad, A. Believer's Bible Commentary: Thomas Nelson) My rest - God has provided rest, and this rest is to be entered into by faith. Unbelief blocks one's entrance into God’s rest, while faith opens wide the entrance and thus this rest is available only to those who receive it by grace through faith. God's rest is not a cessation of all works but of doing those works in our own strength, not His! In other words, the idea is cessation of dependence on one's own strength and striving according to His power which mightily works within us (cp Col 1:29-note, Php 2:12-note; Php 2:13-note). God's rest is entered spiritually by faith, or forfeited by unbelief. In Mt 11:28, 29, 30 Jesus offers rest from the burden of our sins and rest even in the midst of the troubles of this world. To be sure, we will still experience troubles, but in those troubles we have our rest in Him for He Himself declared... These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage (present imperative = Our Lord's command for us to continually be firm and resolute in the face of danger. Even in the troubles Jesus tells us to be of good cheer and He never commands that which He does not also enable us to obey!); I have overcome (perfect tense = nikao [word study] - experienced victory, prevailed and the tense emphasizes the endurance and permanence of His victory!) the world (kosmos [word study] = not so much the material world but the prevailing anti-god, self-centered attitude and actions which are indomitably opposed to God and His children). 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