Strong H2308חָדַל
to cease
- Transliteration
- châdal
- Pronunciation
- khaw-dal'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
A primitive root; properly to be {flabby} that {is} (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle: - {cease} {end} {fail} {forbear} {forsake} leave ({off}) let {alone} {rest} be {unoccupied} want.
Detailed definition
1) to stop, cease, desist, forego, cease to be, leave undone, forbear
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to cease, come to an end
1a2) to cease, leave off
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to cease, come to an end
1a2) to cease, leave off
In the Bible
Strong H2308 appears in 56 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- cease18
- forbear15
- leave10
- forbare3
- let2
- ceaseth1
- endeth1
- fail1
- forbeareth1
- forborn1
- forsake1
- rest1
First verses
- Genesis 11:8So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
- Genesis 18:11Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
- Genesis 41:49And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
- Exodus 9:29And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the Lord; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the Lord’s.
- Exodus 9:33And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the Lord: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.
- Exodus 9:34And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
- Exodus 14:12Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
- Exodus 23:5If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
- Numbers 9:13But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the Lord in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
- Deuteronomy 15:11For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
- Deuteronomy 23:22But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
- Judges 5:6In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
- Judges 5:7The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
- Judges 9:9But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
- Judges 9:11But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
- Judges 9:13And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
- Judges 15:7And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
- Judges 20:28And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the Lord said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.
- Ruth 1:18When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.
- 1 Samuel 2:5They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.