# H989 בְּטֵל

בְּטֵל (bᵉṭêl), Strong’s H989: to stop KJV: (cause, make to), cease, hinder.. Occurs 6 times.

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*bᵉṭêl* — to stop

KJV: (cause, make to), cease, hinder.

Occurs 6 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [בְּטֵל] vb. cease
- Pe. (both of work)
- Pa. make to cease

## Where it occurs
- [Ezra 4:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/4?v=21) — Make a decree now to cause these men to cease, and that this city not be built until a decree is made by me.
- [Ezra 4:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/4?v=23) — Then when the copy of King Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they…
- [Ezra 4:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/4?v=24) — Then work stopped on God’s house which is at Jerusalem. It stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of…
- [Ezra 5:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/5?v=5) — But the eye of their God was on the Jewish elders, and they didn’t make them cease until the matter should come to…
- [Ezra 6:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/6?v=8) — Moreover I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these Jewish elders for the building of this house of God…