Lexical Summary batal: to cease Original Word: בָּטֵלTransliteration: batal Phonetic Spelling: (baw-tale') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to cease Meaning: to desist from labor Strong's Concordance cease A primitive root; to desist from labor -- cease. Brown-Driver-Briggs H988. batal [בָּטַל] verb cease (Late Hebrew בָּטֵל, Arabic , Ethiopic both be futile, vain, but Assyrian ba‰âlu, cease LotzTP 68, so Aramaic בְּטֵיל, ) — Qal Perfect וּבָֽטְליּ consecutive Ecclesiastes 12:3 and the grinders cease. I. בטן (meaning dubious; √ of following). [בְּטֵל] verb cease (late Biblical Hebrew); — Pe`al Perfect3feminine singular בְּטִלַת Ezra 4:24, Participle feminine singular בָּֽטְלָא 4:24 (both of work). Pa`el make to cease, accusative of person: Perfect3masculine plural בַּטִּ֫לוּ Ezra 4:23; 5:5; Infinitive לְבַטָּלָא 4:21, accusative of person omitted 6:3. |