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Lexicon :: Strong's H2308 - ḥāḏal

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חָדַל
Transliteration
ḥāḏal
Pronunciation
khaw-dal'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 609

Strong’s Definitions

חָדַל châdal, khaw-dal'; a primitive root; properly, to be flabby, i.e. (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle:—cease, end, fall, forbear, forsake, leave (off), let alone, rest, be unoccupied, want.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 59x

The KJV translates Strong's H2308 in the following manner: cease (20x), forbear (16x), leave (5x), left off (5x), let...alone (2x), forbare (1x), endeth (1x), failed (1x), forborn (1x), forsake (1x), rest (1x), unoccupied (1x), wanteth (1x), non translated variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 59x
The KJV translates Strong's H2308 in the following manner: cease (20x), forbear (16x), leave (5x), left off (5x), let...alone (2x), forbare (1x), endeth (1x), failed (1x), forborn (1x), forsake (1x), rest (1x), unoccupied (1x), wanteth (1x), non translated variant (1x).

  1. to stop, cease, desist, forego, cease to be, leave undone, forbear

    1. (Qal)

      1. to cease, come to an end

      2. to cease, leave off

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָדַל châdal, khaw-dal'; a primitive root; properly, to be flabby, i.e. (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle:—cease, end, fall, forbear, forsake, leave (off), let alone, rest, be unoccupied, want.
STRONGS H2308: Abbreviations
† חָדַל verb cease (Sabean חדל be negligent, SabDenkm76) —
Qal Perfect חָדַל Genesis 18:11 + 4 times; וְחָדַל consecutive Numbers 9:13; Psalm 49:9; 2nd person masculine singular וְחָדַלְתָּ֫ Exodus 23:5; plural הָֽדְּלוּ Judges 5:6 + 4 times; חָד֑לּוּ (compare Köi, 243) Judges 5:7; 1 Samuel 2:5; 1st person plural חָדַלְנוּ Jeremiah 44:18; Imperfect יֶחְדַּל Deuteronomy 15:11 + (Job 10:20 Kt יחדל jussive > Qr וַחֲדָ֑ל Imperative); אֶחְדָּ֑ל Judges 15:7 + 3 times; וְאַחְדְּלָה Job 16:6; plural יֶחְדָּ֑לוּ Ezekiel 2:5 + 2 times; יֶחְדָּלוּ֔ן Exodus 9:29; וַיַּחְדְּלוּ Genesis 11:8; Exodus 9:33, נֶחְדָּ֑ל 1 Kings 22:15, etc.; Infinitive construct חֲדֹל 1 Samuel 12:23; Imperative חֲדַל Exodus 14:12 +, etc.; חִדְלוּ Isaiah 1:16; Isaiah 2:22; חֲדָ֑לוּ Zechariah 11:22; —
1. cease, come to an end Exodus 9:29, 33, 34 (J), Isaiah 24:8; impersonal חָדַל לִהְיוֺת לְשָׂרָה Genesis 18:11 (J); cease to be Deuteronomy 15:11 (followed by מִן), and in poetry Judges 5:6, 7 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 2:5; Job 14:7; = be lacking, fail Job 19:14; Proverbs 10:19.
2. cease, leave off, followed by infinitive with לְ Genesis 11:8 (J), Genesis 41:49 (E), Numbers 9:13 (P), 1 Samuel 12:23; 1 Samuel 23:13; Jeremiah 44:18; Jeremiah 51:30; Deuteronomy 23:23; Psalm 36:4; Proverbs 19:27; Ruth 1:18; infinitive alone Isaiah 1:16; so also Hosea 8:10, where read וְחָֽדְלוּ for וַיָּחֵלּוּ Greek Version of the LXX Che We; followed by infinitive with מִן Exodus 23:5 (JE), 1 Kings 15:21 2 Chronicles 16:5; followed by substantive with מִן (cease regarding) Isaiah 2:22 (but Che Du and others treat see as interpolation; omitted by Greek Version of the LXX), 1 Samuel 9:5; Proverbs 23:4; followed by מֵאלהים 2 Chronicles 35:21, i.e. leave off provoking God; Exodus 14:12 (J), followed by מִמֶּנּו desist from us, let us alone; Job 7:16; followed by accusative Job 3:17 רֹגֶז ח׳; Job 14:6 have rest (i.e. cease from being troubled, see Di; compare Job 14:1); no complem. expressed, cease, forbear Judges 15:7; Judges 20:28; Amos 7:5; 1 Kings 22:6, 15 2 Chronicles 18:5, 14; Jeremiah 40:4; Jeremiah 41:8; Zechariah 11:12; Psalm 49:9; Job 16:6; 2 Chronicles 25:16; specifically of refusal to hear Ezekiel 2:5, 7; Ezekiel 3:11, 27 (all opposed to שָׁמַע).
Hoph. Perfect (contracted) with interrogative particle הֶחֳדַלְתִּי Judges 9:9, 11, 13 should I be made to leave, followed by accusative (compare Köi, 240 ff.); **Job 10:20 (but read here probably יְמֵי חֶלְדִּי Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Bi Bu Du); but perhaps read הֶחָדַלְתִּי,
Qal Perfect Stu Be, compare, for accusative followed by, Job 3:17.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

11:8; 11:8; 18:11; 18:11; 41:49

Exodus

9:29; 9:29; 9:33; 9:33; 9:34; 14:12; 14:12; 23:5; 23:5

Numbers

9:13; 9:13

Deuteronomy

15:11; 15:11; 23:23

Judges

5:6; 5:6; 5:7; 5:7; 9:9; 9:11; 9:13; 15:7; 15:7; 20:28

Ruth

1:18

1 Samuel

2:5; 2:5; 9:5; 12:23; 12:23; 23:13

1 Kings

15:21; 22:6; 22:15; 22:15

2 Chronicles

16:5; 18:5; 18:14; 25:16; 35:21

Job

3:17; 3:17; 7:16; 10:20; 10:20; 14:1; 14:6; 14:7; 16:6; 16:6; 19:14

Psalms

36:4; 49:9; 49:9

Proverbs

10:19; 19:27; 23:4

Isaiah

1:16; 1:16; 2:22; 2:22; 24:8

Jeremiah

40:4; 41:8; 44:18; 44:18; 51:30

Ezekiel

2:5; 2:5; 2:7; 3:11; 3:27

Hosea

8:10

Amos

7:5

Zechariah

11:12

H2308

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Strong's Number H2308 matches the Hebrew חָדַל (ḥāḏal),
which occurs 59 times in 56 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 11:8–Jer 51:30)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8 - So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:11 - Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:49

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:49 - Joseph gathered very much grain, as the sand of the sea, until he stopped counting, for it was immeasurable.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:29 - So Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD; the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:33 - So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread out his hands to the LORD; then the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:34 - And when Pharaoh saw that the rain, the hail, and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet more; and he hardened his heart, he and his servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:12 - “Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:5 - “If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden, and you would refrain from helping it, you shall surely help him with it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:13 - ‘But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and ceases to keep the Passover, that same person shall be cut off from among his people, because he did not bring the offering of the LORD at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:11 - “For the poor will never cease from the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor and your needy, in your land.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:22 - “But if you abstain from vowing, it shall not be sin to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:6 - “In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath,
In the days of Jael,
The highways were deserted,
And the travelers walked along the byways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:7 - Village life ceased, it ceased in Israel,
Until I, Deborah, arose,
Arose a mother in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:9 - But the olive tree said to them,
‘Should I cease giving my oil,
With which they honor God and men,
And go to sway over trees?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:11 - But the fig tree said to them,
‘Should I cease my sweetness and my good fruit,
And go to sway over trees?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:13 - But the vine said to them,
‘Should I cease my new wine,
Which cheers both God and men,
And go to sway over trees?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:7 - Samson said to them, “Since you would do a thing like this, I will surely take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:28 - and 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 my brother Benjamin, or shall I cease?” And the LORD said, “Go up, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:18 - When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped speaking to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:5 - Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread,
And the hungry have ceased to hunger.
Even the barren has borne seven,
And she who has many children has become feeble.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:5 - When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come, let us return, lest my father cease caring about the donkeys and become worried about us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:23 - “Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you; but I will teach you the good and the right way.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:13 - So David and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah and went wherever they could go. Then it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah; so he halted the expedition.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:21 - Now it happened, when Baasha heard it, that he stopped building Ramah, and remained in Tirzah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:6 - Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to fight, or shall I refrain?” So they said, “Go up, for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:15 - Then he came to the king; and the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall we refrain?” And he answered him, “Go and prosper, for the LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:5 - Now it happened, when Baasha heard it, that he stopped building Ramah and ceased his work.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 18:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:5 - Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I refrain?” So they said, “Go up, for God will deliver it into the king’s hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 18:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:14 - Then he came to the king; and the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I refrain?” And he said, “Go and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 25:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:16 - So it was, as he talked with him, that the king said to him, “Have we made you the king’s counselor? Cease! Why should you be killed?” Then the prophet ceased, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not heeded my advice.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:21 - But he sent messengers to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, king of Judah? I have not come against you this day, but against the house with which I have war; for God commanded me to make haste. Refrain from meddling with God, who is with me, lest He destroy you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:17 - There the wicked cease from troubling,
And there the weary are at rest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:16 - I loathe my life;
I would not live forever.
Let me alone,
For my days are but a breath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:20 - Are not my days few?
Cease! Leave me alone, that I may take a little comfort,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:6 - Look away from him that he may rest,
Till like a hired man he finishes his day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:7 - “For there is hope for a tree,
If it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
And that its tender shoots will not cease.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:6 - “Though I speak, my grief is not relieved;
And if I remain silent, how am I eased?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:14 - My relatives have failed,
And my close friends have forgotten me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:3 - The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 49:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:8 - For the redemption of their souls is costly,
And it shall cease forever—

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:19 - In the multitude of words sin is not lacking,
But he who restrains his lips is wise.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 19:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:27 - Cease listening to instruction, my son,
And you will stray from the words of knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:4 - Do not overwork to be rich;
Because of your own understanding, cease!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:16 - “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;
Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.
Cease to do evil,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:22 - Sever yourselves from such a man,
Whose breath is in his nostrils;
For of what account is he?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:8 - The mirth of the tambourine ceases,
The noise of the jubilant ends,
The joy of the harp ceases.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 40:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:4 - “And now look, I free you this day from the chains that were on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you. But if it seems wrong for you to come with me to Babylon, remain here. See, all the land is before you; wherever it seems good and convenient for you to go, go there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 41:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:8 - But ten men were found among them who said to Ishmael, “Do not kill us, for we have treasures of wheat, barley, oil, and honey in the field.” So he desisted and did not kill them among their brethren.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:18 - “But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:30 - The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting,
They have remained in their strongholds;
Their might has failed,
They became like women;
They have burned her dwelling places,
The bars of her gate are broken.

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