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Strong's #2308 - חָדַל
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- to stop, cease, desist, forego, cease to be, leave undone, forbear
- (Qal)
- to cease, come to an end
- to cease, leave off
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2148) ldh (ההדל HhDL) AC: Cease CO: ? AB: Reject
V) ldh (ההדל HhDL) - Cease: To stop or refrain from continuing an action. KJV (59): (vf: Paal) cease, forbear, leave, alone, end, fail, forborn, forsake, rest, unoccupied, want - Strongs: H2308 (חָדַל)
Nm) ldh (ההדל HhDL) - Rejected: Something that is made to cease to function. KJV (3): frail, rejected, forbear - Strongs: H2310 (חָדֵל)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Qal Perfect חָדַל Genesis 18:11 4t.; וְחָדַל consecutive Numbers 9:13; Psalm 49:9; 2 masculine singular וְחָדַלְתָּ֫ Exodus 23:5; plural הָֽדְּלוּ Judges 5:6 4t.; חָד֑לּוּ (compare Kö i, 243) Judges 5:7; 1 Samuel 2:5; 1 plural חָדַלְנוּ Jeremiah 44:18; Imperfect יֶחְדַּל Deuteronomy 15:11 + ( Job 10:20 Kt יחדל jussive > Qr וַחֲדָ֑ל Imperative); אֶחְדָּ֑ל Judges 15:7 3t.; וְאַחְדְּלָה Job 16:6; plural יֶחְדָּ֑לוּ Ezekiel 2:5 2t.; יֶחְדָּלוּ֔ן Exodus 9:29; וַיַּחְדְּלוּ Genesis 11:8; Exodus 9:33, נֶחְדָּ֑ל 1 Kings 22:15, etc.; Infinitive construct חֲדֹל 1 Samuel 12:23; Imperative חֲדַל Exodus 14:12 +, etc.; חִדְלוּ Isaiah 1:16; Isaiah 2:22; חֲדָ֑לוּ Zechariah 11:22; —
1 cease, come to an end Exodus 9:29,33,34 (J), Isaiah 24:8; impersonal חָדַל לִהְיוֺת לְשָׂרָה Genesis 18:11 (J); cease to be Deuteronomy 15:11 (followed by מִן), and in poetry Judges 5:6,7 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 2:5; Job 14:7; = be lacking, fail Job 19:14; Proverbs 10:19.
2 cease, leave off, followed by infinitive with לְ Genesis 11:8 (J), Genesis 41:49 (E), Numbers 9:13 (P), 1 Samuel 12:23; 1 Samuel 23:13; Jeremiah 44:18; Jeremiah 51:30; Deuteronomy 23:23; Psalm 36:4; Proverbs 19:27; Ruth 1:18; infinitive alone Isaiah 1:16; so also Hosea 8:10, where read וְחָֽדְלוּ for וַיָּחֵלּוּᵐ5 Che We; followed by infinitive with מִן Exodus 23:5 (JE), 1 Kings 15:21 2 Chronicles 16:5; followed by substantive with מִן ( cease regarding) Isaiah 2:22 (but Che Du and others treat see as interpolation; omitted by ᵐ5), 1 Samuel 9:5; Proverbs 23:4; followed by מֵאלהים 2 Chronicles 35:21, i.e. leave off provoking God; Exodus 14:12 (J), followed by מִמֶּנּו desist from us, let us alone; Job 7:16; followed by accusative Job 3:17 רֹגֶז׳ח; Job 14:6 have rest (i.e. cease from being troubled, see Di; compare Job 14:1); no complem. expressed, cease, forbear Judges 15:7; Judges 20:28; Amos 7:5; 1 Kings 22:6,15 2 Chronicles 18:5,14; Jeremiah 40:4; Jeremiah 41:8; Zechariah 11:12; Psalm 49:9; Job 16:6; 2 Chronicles 25:16; specifically of refusal to hear Ezekiel 2:5,7; Ezekiel 3:11,27 (all opposed to שָׁמַע).
Hoph`al Perfect (contracted) with interrogative particle הֶחֳדַלְתִּי Judges 9:9,11,13 should I be made to leave, followed by accusative (compare Kö i, 240 ff.); ** Job 10:20 (but read here probably יְמֵי חֶלְדִּיᵐ5 ᵑ6 Bi Bu Du); but perhaps read הֶחָדַלְתִּי,
Qal Perfect Stu Be, compare, for accusative followed by, Job 3:17.
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