חָדַל châdal — properly, to be flabby, i.e. (by implication) desist
Translated in the KJV as cease, end, fall, forbear, forsake, leave, let alone, rest, be unoccupied, want.
a primitive root; properly, to be flabby, i.e. (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle.
châdal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 17Imperfect (yiqtol) 17Imperative 13Wayyiqtol 8Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Infinitive construct 1Cohortative 1
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
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 ›