Word

בְּטֵל

bᵉṭêl · H989 · Aramaic · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

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

Examples
Ezra 4:24 Then work on the house of God in Jerusalem was discontinued, and it was stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra 4:21 “Now issue a decree to make those men stop work, so that this city will not be rebuilt until a decree is issued by me.
Ezra 4:23 Then as soon as the copy of King Artaxerxes’ decree was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their colleagues, they went in a hurry to Jerusalem to the Jews and stopped them by military force.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

5 occurrences in 3 groups

Not stated: they 2
Not stated (infinitive) 2
עֲבִידָהaffairs 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

3 occurrences in 2 groups

הִמּוֹare 2
גְּבַרcertain 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with+ אֶדְרָעforce 1
בin/on/with+ חַיִלaloud 1

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לָאnot 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 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

כָּלָא kâlâʼ · H3607 · to imprison, to confine, to withhold: כָּלָא means 'restrain, withhold, hinder' and shares with בְּטֵל the sense of preventing or hindering action, though כָּלָא focuses more on restraint/withholding while בְּטֵל focuses on causing cessation.

Contrasting words 1 word

עָשָׂה ʻâsâh · H6213 · to make, to create, to produce: עָשָׂה ('do, make, accomplish') stands in lexical opposition to בְּטֵל ('cause to cease, hinder') as the act of performing or making something happen versus causing it to stop or be hindered.

In the other Testament 2 words

καταργέω katargéō · G2673 · to cause to come to an end, to cause to become nothing, to put an end to: καταργέω is the standard Greek verb for 'render idle, bring to an end, abolish,' and serves as the natural translation equivalent for the causative sense of בְּטֵל (Aramaic 'cause to cease, hinder') in contexts where activity or work is brought to a halt.
παύω paúō · G3973 · to cause to cease, to make stop, to cease: παύω expresses 'cease, stop' (both transitive and intransitive), making it a viable Greek equivalent for בְּטֵל's sense of causing something to cease or come to a halt.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Non-Engage002003003012: Ezra 4:24 recounts that “work on the house of God in Jerusalem was discontinued, and it was stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.”

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

בָּטֵל bâṭêl · H988 · to cease working, to become idle, to cause (someone or some activity) to stop · 1×בְּטֵלbᵉṭêl · H989

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