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title: בָּטַל — cease · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בָּטַל (988), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: cease. BDB 1906: vb. cease. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בָּטַל

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«בָּטַל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cease** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 988 · **BDB:** בָּטַל

### Glosses

they.will.cease (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cease [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/988/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. cease [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/988/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cease (NH בָּטֵל, Arabic بَطَلَ, Ethiopic በጠለ both be futile, vain, but Assyrian baṭâlu, cease LotzTP 68, so Aramaic בְּטֵיל, ܒܛܶܠ )— Pf. וּבָֽטְלוּ consec. Ec 12:3 and the grinders cease.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בָּטַל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/988/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ecclesiastes 12:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.3/)

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בַּיּ֗וֹם שֶׁיָּזֻ֙עוּ֙ שֹׁמְרֵ֣י הַבַּ֔יִת וְהִֽתְעַוְּת֖וּ אַנְשֵׁ֣י הֶחָ֑יִל וּבָטְל֤וּ הַטֹּֽחֲנוֹת֙ כִּ֣י מִעֵ֔טוּ וְחָשְׁכ֥וּ הָרֹא֖וֹת בָּאֲרֻבּֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* in the day when they.will.tremble \[those.who\].keep (of).the house and they.will.bend.themselves the.people of.(the) strength and they.will.cease the.\[female\] grinders (dm) they.have.become.few and they.will.grow.dim the.\[women who\].look in the windows

*JPS 1917:* In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out shall be darkened in the windows,

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