stop
14 occurrences across the corpus
King James Version
And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down that the rain stop thee not.
And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him.
Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
KJV Apocrypha (Catholic Deuterocanon)
Charging them to keep the passages of the hill country: for by them there was an entrance into Judea, and it was easy to stop them that would come up, because the passage was straight, for two men at the most.
That they will abolish the thing that thou with thy mouth hast ordained, and destroy thine inheritance, and stop the mouth of them that praise thee, and quench the glory of thy house, and of thine altar,
Presents and gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and stop up his mouth that he cannot reprove.
The talk of him that sweareth much maketh the hair stand upright; and their brawls make one stop his ears.
Therefore now, O holy Lord of all holiness, keep this house ever undefiled, which lately was cleansed, and stop every unrighteous mouth.
Apostolic Fathers
Stop your ears therefore, as often as any one shall speak contrary to Jesus Christ; who was of the race of David, of the Virgin Mary.
OT Pseudepigrapha
Delighted with the man's reply, the king said that all their answers had been good. 'I will put a question to one other,' he added, 'and then I will stop for the present: that we may turn our attention to the enjoyment of the feast and spend a pleasant time.'