pauo marks an activity, speech, event, or condition as stopping or no longer continuing.

The occurrences consistently mark the ending or non-continuation of an activity, event, or condition: teaching and prayer may continue without stopping, while speech, a commotion, beating, winds and waves, offerings, and sin are presented as brought to an end or no longer continuing.

1. Stopping or no longer continuing · dominant

   The forms mark an action or condition as ending, whether an event reaches its close or an activity does not stop. In Luke 11:1 the aorist middle form occurs when prayer has ended; in Acts 21:32 it marks the crowd's stopping their beating of Paul; and in Luke 8:24 it marks the wind and waves after they are rebuked. Present and imperfect forms also occur with negation for continuing activity: in Acts 5:42 the APB renders that the disciples “did not cease teaching and proclaiming,” and in Ephesians 1:16 it renders “do not cease to give thanks.”

   Luke 11:1Acts 21:32Luke 8:24Acts 5:42Ephesians 1:161 Peter 4:1

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the verses, the APB uses expressions such as “ceased,” “stop,” “finished,” and “did not cease.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these expressions show the clauses' presentation rather than a fixed English equivalent in every occurrence.