בָּטֵל bâṭêl — to desist from labor
Translated in the KJV as cease.
a primitive root; to desist from labor.
bâṭêl in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
וּבָטְל֤וּ Eccl 12:3 Sequential perfect (weqatal), 3rd person common plural
In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›