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Strong's #988 - בָּטַל
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- to cease
- (Qal) to cease
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2014) lub (בתהל BThL) AC: Cease CO: ? AB: ?
V) lub (בתהל BThL) - Cease: To stop or become inactive. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (7): (vf: Paal) cease, hindered - Strongs: H988 (בָּטַל), H989 (בְּטַל)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
, Ethiopic 
both be futile, vain, but Assyrian ba‰âlu, cease Lotz TP 68, so Aramaic בְּטֵיל, 
) — Qal Perfect וּבָֽטְליּ consecutive Ecclesiastes 12:3 and the grinders cease.
I. בטן (meaning dubious; √ of following).
[בְּטֵל] verb cease (late Biblical Hebrew); —
Pe`al Perfect 3 feminine singular בְּטִלַת Ezra 4:24, Participle feminine singular בָּֽטְלָא Ezra 4:24 (both of work).
Pa`el make to cease, accusative of person: Perfect 3 masculine plural בַּטִּ֫לוּ Ezra 4:23; Ezra 5:5; Infinitive לְבַטָּלָא Ezra 4:21, accusative of person omitted Ezra 6:3.
בָּטַל to be empty, vacant (compare בָּטַן), especially to be free from labour; hence to cease, to rest from, Ecclesiastes 12:3. Arab. بَطَلَ and Eth. በጠለ፡ to be empty, vain; more rarely, to cease.
