Strong's Hebrew · H2308
חָדַל
châdal · khaw-dal'
cease, end, fall, forbear, forsake, leave (off), let alone, rest, be unoccupied, want.
Definition
properly, to be flabby, i.e. (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 58 times in Scripture
“If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.”
“And Abraham and Sarah were already old and well along in years; Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.”
“So the king of Israel assembled the prophets, four hundred men, and asked them, “Should we go to war against Ramoth-gilead, or should we refrain?” “Go up,” they replied, “and God will deliver it into the hand of the king.””
“When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart—he and his officials.”
“Then Moses departed from Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. The thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.”
“But the fig tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my sweetness and my good fruit, to hold sway over the trees?’”
“Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.”
“So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.”
“Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.””
“So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).