1. To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave of; to give over; followed by from before a noun.

It is an honor for a man to cease from strife. Proverbs 20:3.

2. To fail; to be wanting.

The poor shall never cease out of the land. Deuteronomy 15:11.

3. To stop; to be at an end; as, the wonder ceases; the storm has ceased.

4. To be forgotten.

I would make the remembrance of them to cease. Deuteronomy 32:26.

5. To abstain; as, cease from anger. Psalm 37:8.

To cease from labor, is to rest; to cease from strife, is to be quiet; but in such phrases, the sense of cease is not varied.