# H2308 חָדַל

חָדַל (châdal), Strong’s H2308: 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…

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*châdal* — 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.

Occurs 58 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חָדַל vb. cease
- Qal
- 1 cease, come to an end
- 2 cease, leave off
- Hoph. should I be made to leave

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 11:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=8) — So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
- [Genesis 18:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=11) — Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
- [Genesis 41:49](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=49) — Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.
- [Exodus 9:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/9?v=29) — 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…
- [Exodus 9:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/9?v=33) — Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to the LORD; and the thunders and hail ceased, and…
- [Exodus 9:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/9?v=34) — When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he…
- [Exodus 14:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=12) — Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it…
- [Exodus 23:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=5) — If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him…
- [Numbers 9:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/9?v=13) — 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…
- [Deuteronomy 15:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/15?v=11) — For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to…