Strong's Concordance
Original word: חָדַל
Transliteration: chadal
Definition (short): cease
Definition (full): to be flabby, desist, be lacking, idle
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: a prim. root
Definition: to cease
NASB Translation: cease (10), ceased (8), ceasing (1), deserted (1), fail (1), failed (1), gave (1), hold back (1), leave (5), let my alone (1), neglects (1), never mind (2), no (1), past (1), quit (1), refrain (6), refrained (1), refuse (1), regarding* (1), rest (1), stop (4), stopped (4), stops (1), unavoidable* (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
A primitive root; properly, to be flabby, i.e. (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle -- cease, end, fall, forbear, forsake, leave (off), let alone, rest, be unoccupied, want.
References
KJV:
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
NASB:
So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
KJV:
Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
NASB:
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; Sarah was past childbearing.
KJV:
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
NASB:
Thus Joseph stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.
KJV:
And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the LORD'S.
NASB:
Moses said to him, "As soon as I go out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD; the thunder will cease and there will be hail no longer, that you may know that the earth is the LORD'S.
KJV:
And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.
NASB:
So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to the LORD; and the thunder and the hail ceased, and rain no longer poured on the earth.