To cease
בְּטֵלStrong’s H0989betel (be-tel)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Betel is the Aramaic word usually translated “make to cease”, “made to cease” and “it ceased”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given from me.”
Meaning
- (P'al) to ceaseto cease · to make to cease
How it's translated
- to make to cease 2
- and they made to cease 1
- it ceased 1
- ceasing 1
- they made cease 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 5
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezra 4:23Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
- Ezra 4:24Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- Ezra 5:5But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.
- Ezra 6:8Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expenses be given unto these men, that they be not hindered.
Aramaic dictionary
בְּטֵל betel · to cease
1) (P'al) to cease 1a) to cease 1b) to make to cease
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.