בָּטֵל
bâṭêl · H988 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to cease working, to become idle
State in which someone is no longer engaged in an action one used to be engaged in previously
ExamplesEcclesiastes 12:3 on the day that the watchmen of the house tremble, and strong men are bent over, the grinders stop working because they are few, and those who look through windows grow dim;
How it’s used In 1 role
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Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- טָחַןto grind 1
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Near synonyms 3 words
- שָׁבַת shâbath · H7673 · to end, to cease, to stop
- שָׁבַת is a common Hebrew verb meaning 'cease' or 'rest,' semantically overlapping with בָּטֵל in denoting the termination or cessation of activity.
- חָדַל châdal · H2308 · to cease to exist, to cease, to stop
- חָדַל is another Hebrew verb for ceasing or stopping an activity, closely related in meaning to בָּטֵל as both denote the discontinuation of action.
- כָּלָה kâlâh · H3615 · to be finished, to be completed, to come to an end
- כָּלָה can mean 'cease' in the sense of bringing something to completion or end, overlapping with בָּטֵל in the notion of termination.
Contrasting words 2 words
- עָשָׂה ʻâsâh · H6213 · to make, to create, to produce
- עָשָׂה ('do, make, work') is the lexical opposite of בָּטֵל ('cease'), as doing/working stands in direct opposition to ceasing or stopping activity.
- פָּעַל pâʻal · H6466 · to do, to perform, to make, work
- פָּעַל ('work, do') represents active engagement in labor or action, the direct opposite of בָּטֵל which denotes cessation of such activity.
In the other Testament 2 words
- παύω paúō · G3973 · to cause to cease, to make stop, to cease
- παύω is the standard Greek verb for 'cease' or 'stop,' expressing the termination of an action or state, making it a natural translation equivalent for בָּטֵל in its sense of cessation.
- καταπαύω katapaúō · G2664 · to rest, to cease from work, to cause to rest
- καταπαύω intensifies the concept of cessation with the prefix κατα-, often used for causing something to cease or bringing to rest, fitting the semantic range of בָּטֵל.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Non-Engage002003003012
- The verb describes ceasing or stopping an activity, as the grinders 'stop working because they are few' in the aging-body imagery of Ecclesiastes 12:3, fitting this domain's sense of disengaging from or discontinuing an activity.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H988. batal [בָּטַל] verb cease (Late Hebrew בָּטֵל, Arabic , Ethiopic both be futile,…
[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 Ecc 12:3 and the grinders cease.
I. בטן (meaning dubious; √ of following).
[בְּטֵל] verb cease (late Biblical Hebrew); —
Pe`al Perfect3feminine singular בְּטִלַת Ezr 4:24, Participle feminine singular בָּֽטְלָא Ezr 4:24 (both of work).
Pa`el make to cease, accusative of person: Perfect3masculine plural בַּטִּ֫לוּ Ezr 4:23; Ezr 5:5; Infinitive לְבַטָּלָא Ezr 4:21, accusative of person omitted Ezr 6:3.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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