To cease
בָּטַלStrong’s H0988batel (ba-tel)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Batel is the Hebrew word usually translated “cease”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,”
Meaning
- To cease(Qal) to cease
How it's translated
- and they will cease 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
בָּטַל batel · to cease
1) to cease 1a) (Qal) to cease Aramaic equivalent: be.tel (בְּטֵל "to cease" H0989)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cease” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CEASE, verb intransitive
- To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave of; to give over; followed by from before a noun.“It is an honor for a man to cease from strife” Proverbs 20:3
- To fail; to be wanting.“The poor shall never cease out of the land” Deuteronomy 15:11
- To stop; to be at an end; as, the wonder ceases; the storm has ceased.
- To be forgotten.“I would make the remembrance of them to cease” Deuteronomy 32:26
All definitions and other forms of “cease”
- To abstain; as, cease from anger. Psalms 37:8
CEASE, verb transitive
To put a stop to; to put an end to. cease this impious rage. [But in this use the phrase is generally elliptical, ]
CEASE, noun
Extinction.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.