King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H2308
Transliteration: chadal
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-dal')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to cease
Meaning: to be flabby, desist, be lacking, idle
Word Summary
chadal: to cease
Original Word: חָדַלTransliteration: chadal
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-dal')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to cease
Meaning: to be flabby, desist, be lacking, idle
Strong's Concordance
cease, end, fall, forbear, forsake, leave off, let alone, rest, 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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2308. chadal
חָדַל verb cease (Sabean חדל be negligent, SabDenkm76) —
Qal Perfect חָדַל Genesis 18:11 4t.; וְחָדַל consecutive Numbers 9:13; Psalm 49:9; 2masculine singular וְחָדַלְתָּ֫ Exodus 23:5; plural הָֽדְּלוּ Judges 5:6 4t.; חָד֑לּוּ (compare Köi, 243) 5:7; 1 Samuel 2:5; 1plural 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; 2:22; חֲדָ֑לוּ Zechariah 11:22; —
1 cease, come to an end Exodus 9:29, 33, 34 (J), Isaiah 24:8; impersonal לְשָׂרָה לִהְיוֺת חָדַל 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 19:14; Proverbs 10:19.
2 cease, leave off, followed by infinitive with לְ Genesis 11:8 (J), 41:49 (E), Numbers 9:13 (P), 1 Samuel 12:23; 23:13; Jeremiah 44:18; 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 ᵐ5 וַיָּחֵלּוּ 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 מֵאלהים2 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 3:17 ׳ח רֹגֶז; 14:6 have rest (i.e. cease from being troubled, see Di; compare 14:1); no complem. expressed, cease, forbear Judges 15:7; 20:28; Amos 7:5; 1 Kings 22:6, 15 2 Chronicles 18:5, 14; Jeremiah 40:4; 41:8; Zechariah 11:12; Psalm 49:9; Job 16:6; 2 Chronicles 25:16; specifically of refusal to hear Ezekiel 2:5, 7; 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 Köi, 240 ff.); **Job 10:20 (but read here probably ᵑ6 ᵐ5 חֶלְדִּי יְמֵי Bi Bu Du); but perhaps read הֶחָדַלְתִּי,
Qal Perfect Stu Be, compare, for accusative followed by, Job 3:17.