Lexicon batal: To cease, to be idle, to be inactive, to be useless Original Word: בָּטֵל Strong's Exhaustive Concordance cease A primitive root; to desist from labor -- cease. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definition to cease NASB Translation stand idle (1). Brown-Driver-Briggs [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 Ezra 4:24 (both of work). Pa`el make to cease, accusative of person: Perfect3masculine plural בַּטִּ֫לוּ Ezra 4:23; Ezra 5:5; Infinitive לְבַטָּלָא Ezra 4:21, accusative of person omitted Ezra 6:3. Forms and Transliterations וּבָטְל֤וּ ובטלו ū·ḇā·ṭə·lū ūḇāṭəlū uvateLuLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Ecclesiastes 12:3 HEB: אַנְשֵׁ֣י הֶחָ֑יִל וּבָטְל֤וּ הַטֹּֽחֲנוֹת֙ כִּ֣י NAS: the grinding ones stand idle because KJV: themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, INT: men and mighty stand the grinding because 1 Occurrence |
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