חָדַל

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)

Every occurrence

1. Genesis 11:8 וַֽיַּחְדְּל֖וּ vai.yach.de.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

   So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.

2. Genesis 18:11 חָדַל֙ cha.Dal · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

   Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

3. Genesis 41:49 חָדַ֥ל cha.Dal · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

   And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number.

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