Limitless Word
חָדַלchâdal/khaw-dal'/
HebrewH230858 occurrences (KJV)

properly, to be flabby, i.e. (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle

KJV renders it: cease, end, fall, forbear, forsake, leave (off), let alone, rest, be unoccupied, want.

Where it appears(showing the first 56 of 58)

  • Gen 11:8So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
  • Gen 18:11Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
  • Gen 41:49Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.
  • Exod 9:29Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.
  • Exod 9:33Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.
  • Exod 9:34When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
  • Exod 14:12Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
  • Exod 23:5If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him, you shall surely help him with it.
  • Num 9:13But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
  • Deut 15:11For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
  • Deut 23:22But if you refrain from making a vow, it shall be no sin in you.
  • Judg 5:6“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.
  • Judg 5:7The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel.
  • Judg 9:9“But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honor God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’
  • Judg 9:11“But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’
  • Judg 9:13“The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’
  • Judg 15:7Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”
  • Judg 20:28and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, “Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?” Yahweh said, “Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.”
  • Ruth 1:18When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.
  • 1 Sam 2:5Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.
  • 1 Sam 9:5When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come, and let us return, lest my father stop caring about the donkeys, and be anxious for us.”
  • 1 Sam 12:23Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
  • 1 Sam 23:13Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. Saul was told that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.
  • 1 Kgs 15:21When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.
  • 1 Kgs 22:6Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?” They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
  • 1 Kgs 22:15When he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?” He answered him, “Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
  • 2 Chr 16:5When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and let his work cease.
  • 2 Chr 18:5Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?” They said, “Go up; for God will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
  • 2 Chr 18:14When he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?” He said, “Go up, and prosper. They shall be delivered into your hand.”
  • 2 Chr 25:16As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.”
  • 2 Chr 35:21But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you today, but against the house with which I have war. God has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you.”
  • Job 3:17There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
  • Job 7:16I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
  • Job 10:20Aren’t my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
  • Job 14:6Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
  • Job 14:7“For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
  • Job 16:6“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
  • Job 19:14My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
  • Ps 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
  • Ps 49:8For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,
  • Prov 10:19In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
  • Prov 19:27If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
  • Prov 23:4Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
  • Isa 1:16Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
  • Isa 2:22Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
  • Isa 24:8The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.
  • Jer 40:4Now, behold, I release you today from the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don’t. Behold, all the land is before you. Where it seems good and right to you to go, there go.”
  • Jer 41:8But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, “Don’t kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey.” So he stopped, and didn’t kill them among their brothers.
  • Jer 44:18But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
  • Jer 51:30The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting, they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire. Her bars are broken.
  • Ezek 2:5They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house), yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them.
  • Ezek 2:7You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.
  • Ezek 3:11Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh;’ whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
  • Ezek 3:27But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.”
  • Amos 7:5Then I said, “Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
  • Zech 11:12I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.