Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H989
בְּטֵל
betelbet-ale'
to cease
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bᵉṭêl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H989is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H989
to stop
The King James renders it: (cause, make to), cease, hinder.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
betel is rendered "to cease". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Six of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:21Now, therefore, issue an order for these men to stop, so that this city will not be rebuilt until I so order.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Now, therefore, issue an order for these men to stop, so that this city will not be rebuilt until I so order.
Ezra 4:21לְבַטָּלָ֖א
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's six uses are in Ezra.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- to make to cease2
- and they made to cease1
- ceasing1
- it ceased1
- they made cease1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בָּֽטְלָ֔א1
- בַטִּ֣לוּ1
- בְּטֵלַת֙1
- וּבַטִּ֥לוּ1
- לְבַטָּלָ֖א1
- לְבַטָּלָֽא׃1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)2AR/Vpcc
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1AC/Vpp3mp
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1AVpp3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1AVqp3fs
- verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular1AVqrfsa
Ezra
six uses
Now, therefore, issue an order for these men to stop, so that this city will not be rebuilt until I so order.
- לְבַטָּלָ֖אlevatala'preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make to cease
When the text of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their associates, they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and forcibly stopped them.
- וּבַטִּ֥לוּuvatiluconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and they made to cease
Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- בְּטֵלַת֙betelatverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it ceased
- בָּֽטְלָ֔אbatela'verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: ceasing
But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, so that they were not stopped until a report was sent to Darius and written instructions about this matter were returned.
- בַטִּ֣לוּvatiluverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they made cease
I hereby decree what you must do for these elders of the Jews who are rebuilding this house of God: The cost is to be paid in full to these men from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces west of the Euphrates, so that the work will not be hindered.
- לְבַטָּלָֽא׃levatala'preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make to cease
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.