Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H2308
חָדַל
cha.dal · “to cease”
Used 59 times across 17 books
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
Where it appears
Genesis3
Exodus5
Numbers1
Deuteronomy2
Judges8
Ruth1
1 Samuel4
1 Kings3
2 Chronicles6
Job8
Psalms2
Proverbs3
Isaiah3
Jeremiah4
Ezekiel4
Amos1
Zechariah1
In the text
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.
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