Katapausis means “rest” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2663 — chapharayim (“Haphraim”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2663 κατάπαυσις (katapausis) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. katapausis (kat-ap'-au-sis) n. 1. reposing down 2. (by Hebraism) abode It has 20 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include rest. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
katapausis (kat-ap'-au-sis) n. 1. reposing down 2. (by Hebraism) abode [from G2664] KJV: rest Root(s): G2664
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2663. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
rest
Usage: κατά-παυσις, -εως, ἡ (καταπαύω), [in LXX chiefly for מְנוּחָה, Psa.95:11, Isa.66:1, al.; ἡμέρα τῆς κ., 2Ma.15:1] __1. in cl., a putting to rest, causing to cease. __2. In LXX and NT, rest, repose: Act.7:49 (LXX), Heb.3:11, 18 4:1, 3 4:5, 10-11† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render katapausis, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2663 (κατάπαυσις) appears 12 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
8 indexed usages in New Testament.
Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
9 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Six days shalt thou perform works, but on the seventh day shall be rest—a holy Sabbath—a rest for the Lord: every one that does work on it, let him die.
And in the resting he said, Turn again, O Lord, the thousands and tens of thousands in Israel.
For hitherto ye have not arrived at the rest and the inheritance, which the Lord our God gives you.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Throw down their strength in thy power, and bring down their force in thy wrath: for they have purposed to defile thy sanctuary and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name resteth, and to cast down with sword the horn of thy altar.
But Nicanor, hearing that Judas and his company were in the strong places about Samaria, resolved without any danger to set upon them on the Sabbath day.
And say not, His mercy is great; He will be pacified for the multitude of my sins: For mercy and wrath come from him, And his indignation resteth upon sinners.
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2663.
Six days shalt thou perform works, but on the seventh day shall be rest—a holy Sabbath—a rest for the Lord: every one that does work on it, let him die.
And in the resting he said, Turn again, O Lord, the thousands and tens of thousands in Israel.
For hitherto ye have not arrived at the rest and the inheritance, which the Lord our God gives you.
be the Lord this day, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he said: there has not failed one word among all his good words which he spoke by the hand of his servant Moses.
And these were the men whom David set over the service of the singers in the house of the Lord when the ark was at rest.
And now, O Lord God, arise into thy resting place, Thou, and the ark of thy strength: Let thy priests, O Lord God, clothe themselves with salvation, And thy sons rejoice in prosperity.
So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.
This is my rest forever: Here will I dwell; for I have chosen it.
Thus saith the Lord, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of a house will ye build me? and of what kind is to be the place of my rest?
Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Throw down their strength in thy power, and bring down their force in thy wrath: for they have purposed to defile thy sanctuary and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name resteth, and to cast down with sword the horn of thy altar.
But Nicanor, hearing that Judas and his company were in the strong places about Samaria, resolved without any danger to set upon them on the Sabbath day.
And say not, His mercy is great; He will be pacified for the multitude of my sins: For mercy and wrath come from him, And his indignation resteth upon sinners.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2663, grouped by book.
Katapausis (Strong's G2663) is a Greek word most simply glossed "rest". katapausis (kat-ap'-au-sis) n. 1. reposing down 2. (by Hebraism) abode
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's G2663 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2663 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as rest. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 9 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2663, with linked reader references where each row is available.