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:
Jeremiah 44:18: "But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings"
Jeremiah 51:30: "The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might"
Ezekiel 2:5: "whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they house,)"
Ezekiel 2:7: "them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious."
Ezekiel 3:11: "GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear."
Ezekiel 3:27: "He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house."
Amos 7:5: "Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob"
Zechariah 11:12: "give me my price; and if forbear. So they weighed for my price"
