Strong's #2308: chadal (pronounced 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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
châdal
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
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 58 times:
Genesis 11:8: "from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city."
Genesis 18:11: "were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be after the manner of women."
Genesis 41:49: "very much, he left numbering; for it was without number."
Exodus 9:29: "unto the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail;"
Exodus 9:33: "unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured"
Exodus 9:34: "the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, yet more, and hardened his heart,"
Exodus 14:12: "we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve"
Exodus 23:5: "thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help"
Numbers 9:13: "and is not in a journey, and forbeareth the passover, even the same soul"
Deuteronomy 15:11: "For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore"
Deuteronomy 23:22: "But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin"
Judges 5:6: "in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travelers walked through byways."
Judges 5:7: "The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that that I Deborah arose,"
Judges 5:7: "The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that that I Deborah arose,"
Judges 9:9: "But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honor"
Judges 9:11: "But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit,"
Judges 9:13: "And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God"
Judges 15:7: "yet will I be avenged I will cease."
Judges 20:28: "of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for"
Ruth 1:18: "was steadfastly minded to go with her, then she left unto"
1 Samuel 2:5: "have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren seven;"
1 Samuel 9:5: "and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought"
1 Samuel 12:23: "God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing in ceasing to pray"
1 Samuel 23:13: "Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbore to go forth."
1 Kings 15:21: "And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah,"
1 Kings 22:6: "them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up;"
1 Kings 22:15: "Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper:"
2 Chronicles 16:5: "And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he left off building of Ramah,"
2 Chronicles 18:5: "Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver"
2 Chronicles 18:14: "Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered"
2 Chronicles 25:16: "unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbore,"
2 Chronicles 25:16: "why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbore, and said, I know that God"
2 Chronicles 35:21: "for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with"
Job 3:17: "There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest."
Job 7:16: "it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days"
Job 10:20: "Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,"
Job 14:6: "Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day."
Job 14:7: "and that the tender branch thereof will not cease."
Job 16:6: "my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what"
Job 19:14: "My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten"
Psalms 36:3: "of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good."
Psalms 49:8: "(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth forever:)"
Proverbs 10:19: "In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips"
Proverbs 19:27: " Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge."
Proverbs 23:4: "Labor not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom."
Isaiah 1:16: "of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;"
Isaiah 2:22: " Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for"
Isaiah 24:8: "ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy ceaseth."
Jeremiah 40:4: "unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear:"
Jeremiah 41:8: "and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbear, and slew them not among their brethren."
