{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H2308",
  "lemma": "חָדַל",
  "transliteration": "châdal",
  "definition": "properly, to be flabby, i.e. (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle",
  "kjv": "cease, end, fall, forbear, forsake, leave (off), let alone, rest, be unoccupied, want.",
  "occurrences": 58,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "חָדַל vb. cease",
    "Qal",
    "1. cease, come to an end",
    "2. cease, leave off",
    "Hoph. should I be made to leave"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 11:8",
      "text": "So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:11",
      "text": "Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 41:49",
      "text": "Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=49"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 9:29",
      "text": "Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunders shall…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/9?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 9:33",
      "text": "Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to the LORD; and the thunders and hail ceased, and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/9?v=33"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 9:34",
      "text": "When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/9?v=34"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 14:12",
      "text": "Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 23:5",
      "text": "If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 9:13",
      "text": "But 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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/9?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 15:11",
      "text": "For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/15?v=11"
    }
  ],
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