בְּטֵל bᵉṭêl — to stop
Translated in the KJV as (cause, make to), cease, hinder.
(Aramaic) corresponding to H988; to stop.
bᵉṭêl in each stem
Pa'el
Infinitive construct 2Perfect (qatal) 2
Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given from me.
Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.
Pe'al
Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (active) 1
Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
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 ›