Strong's H988: בָּטֵל (bâṭêl) Meaning

Quick Definition

to cease

Strong's Definition

to desist from labor

Derivation: a primitive root;

KJV Usage: cease.

TWOT Reference: 235

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) to cease

1a) (Qal) to cease

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G691

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

בָּטַל (ba.tel) — to cease. 1) to cease 1a) (Qal) to cease Aramaic equivalent: be.tel (בְּטֵל "to cease" H0989)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

בטל (H0988 · A0989)

verb

Non-Engage | verb qal

to cease working, to become idle = state in which someone is no longer engaged in an action one used to be engaged in previously

EZR 4:24 · EZR 4:24 · ECC 12:3

Non-Engage | verb qal

to cause (someone or some activity) to stop = causative action by which humans cause other humans no longer to be engaged in an action that they were engaged in previously

EZR 4:21 · EZR 4:23 · EZR 5:5 · EZR 6:8

¹ ECC 12:3 The referent of בטל here is discussed. RSV NIV "grinders" | NRSV NJPS REB "women/maids that grind", all have a sociological referent. CEV GNT understand it as a metaphor (grinders > teeth) for an aged human body

Enio R. Mueller

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[בָּטַל] vb. cease base

Bible Occurrences (1)

12:3

H988 בָּטֵל (bâṭêl) baw-tale'