To cease
חָדַלStrong’s H2308chadal (cha-dal)
Appears in 56 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chadal is the Hebrew word usually translated “cease”, “ceased” and “refrain”. It appears in 56 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.”
Meaning
- To stop, cease, desist, forego, cease to be, leave undone, forbear(Qal)
How it's translated
- cease 9
- will i cease 4
- and he ceased 4
- they ceased 3
- they will refrain 3
- and they ceased 2
- it had ceased 2
- they will cease 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 7
- Job 7
- Exodus 5
- 2 Chronicles 5
- 1 Samuel 4
- Jeremiah 4
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 11:8So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
- Genesis 18:11Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
- Genesis 41:49And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
- Exodus 9:29And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the LORD’s.
- Exodus 9:33And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.
- Exodus 9:34And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
All 56 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חָדַל chadal · to cease
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
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.