חָדֵל
châdêl · H2310 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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frail, fleeting
Process by which humans exist in this world for a short time only
ExamplesPsalm 39:4 “LORD, let me know my end, And what is the extent of my days; Let me know how transient I am.
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someone who desists
Someone who desists from performing an event that has not yet started
ExamplesEzekiel 3:27 “But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you will say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says:’ The one who hears, let him hear; and the one who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.
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ignored, rejected
Someone nobody pays attention to and/or has any interest in
ExamplesIsaiah 53:3 He was despised and abandoned by men, A man of great pain and familiar with sickness; And like one from whom people hide their faces, He was despised, and we had no regard for Him.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חָדַלto cease, to stop 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- אֲמֵלָל ʼămêlâl · H537 · feeble, miserable
- Both describe physical or moral weakness—חָדֵל (châdêl, H2310) frail, אֲמֵלָל (ʼămêlâl, H537) feeble—naming the same lack of strength or vigor.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Weak002001001069
- The adjective describes the frailty and transience of human life, as the psalmist's lifetime is "like hand widths" before God, a mere breath (Psalm 39:5).
- Non-Engage002003003012
- The word's basic sense, sharing the root of חָדַל (châdal, H2308), is one who forbears or ceases from action, an idea carried alongside its more specific applications.
- Unwilling002001002031
- Applied to the Suffering Servant, the word describes one "rejected" by men, from whom people were unwilling to associate or turn their regard (Isaiah 53:3).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2310. chadel חָדֵל adjective forbearing, lacking, הֶחָדֵל as substantive Eze 3:27 he…
חָדֵל adjective forbearing, lacking, הֶחָדֵל as substantive Eze 3:27 he that forbeareth (opposed to שׁמע, compare חָדֵל
Qal near the end); construct אִישִׁים חֲדַל Isa 53:3 lacking men (i.e. forsaken by them); — ceasing, transient אָ֑נִי מֶהחָֿדֵל Psa 39:5, but read rather חֶלֶד see Checritical note.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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