batal: to cease Original Word: בָּטֵל
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: batal
Phonetic Spelling: (baw-tale')
Short Definition: idle
Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to cease
NASB Translation
stand idle (1).
[בָּטַל] verb cease (Late Hebrew בָּטֵל, Arabic  , Ethiopic  both be futile, vain, but Assyrian ba‰âlu, cease LotzTP 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 Perfect3feminine singular בְּטִלַת Ezra 4:24, Participle feminine singular בָּֽטְלָא Ezra 4:24 (both of work). Pa`el make to cease, accusative of person: Perfect3masculine plural בַּטִּ֫לוּ Ezra 4:23; Ezra 5:5; Infinitive לְבַטָּלָא Ezra 4:21, accusative of person omitted Ezra 6:3.
cease A primitive root; to desist from labor -- cease.
וּבָטְל֤וּ ובטלו ū·ḇā·ṭə·lū ūḇāṭəlū uvateLu
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