Word meanings
Strong's dictionary
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.
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
חָדַל vb. cease
Qal
1. cease, come to an end
2. cease, leave off
Hoph. should I be made to leave
Every occurrence
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Amos 7:5 חֲדַל־ cha.dal- · A command to you: simple action
Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.