Rejected/fleeting
חָדֵלStrong’s H2310chadel (cha-del)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chadel is the Hebrew word usually translated “fleeting”, “rejected of” and “who refrains”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.”
Meaning
- Rejected, forbearing, transient, fleeting, lacking
How it's translated
- fleeting 1
- and rejected of 1
- and the who refrains 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 53:3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
- Ezekiel 3:27But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.
Hebrew dictionary
חָדֵל chadel · rejected/fleeting
rejected, forbearing, transient, fleeting, lacking
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fleeting” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLEE'TING, participle present
tense
- Passing rapidly; flying with velocity.
- adjective Transient; not durable; as the fleeting hours or moments.
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.