חָדַלchâdal
cease
Pronunciation: khaw-dal' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2308
Meanings
Qal
1. cease, come to an end (Exodus 9:29; Exodus 9:33; Exodus 9:34)
2. cease, leave off (Genesis 11:8; Genesis 41:49; Numbers 9:13)
Hoph`al: should I be made to leave (Judges 9:9; Judges 9:11; Judges 9:13)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 58 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 11:8 In that way, the Lord scattered them all over the world, and they stopped building the city.
- Genesis 18:11 Abraham and Sarah were both very old by this time, and Sarah was long past the age of having children.
- Genesis 41:49 He piled up huge amounts of grain like sand on the seashore. Finally, he stopped keeping records because there was too much to measure.
- Exodus 9:29 “All right,” Moses replied. “As soon as I leave the city, I will lift my hands and pray to the Lord. Then the thunder and hail will stop, and you will know that the earth belongs to the Lord.
- Exodus 9:33 So Moses left Pharaoh’s court and went out of the city. When he lifted his hands to the Lord, the thunder and hail stopped, and the downpour ceased.
- Exodus 9:34 But when Pharaoh saw that the rain, hail, and thunder had stopped, he and his officials sinned again, and Pharaoh again became stubborn.
See every passage
- Genesis 11:8, 18:11, 41:49
- Exodus 9:29, 9:33, 9:34, 14:12, 23:5
- Numbers 9:13
- Deuteronomy 15:11, 23:22
- Judges 5:6, 5:7, 9:9, 9:11, 9:13, 15:7, 20:28
- Ruth 1:18
- 1 Samuel 2:5, 9:5, 12:23, 23:13
- 1 Kings 15:21, 22:6, 22:15
- 2 Chronicles 16:5, 18:5, 18:14, 25:16, 35:21
- Job 3:17, 7:16, 10:20, 14:6, 14:7, 16:6, 19:14
- Psalms 36:3, 49:8
- Proverbs 10:19, 19:27, 23:4
- Isaiah 1:16, 2:22, 24:8
- Jeremiah 40:4, 41:8, 44:18, 51:30
- Ezekiel 2:5, 2:7, 3:11, 3:27
- Amos 7:5
- Zechariah 11:12
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).