Hebrew Strong's Lexicon

H989

Language: 🇧🇶 Papiamentu 🇬🇧 English

Lemma: ๏ฌฑึฐื˜ึตืœ

Transliteration: bet-ale'

Definition: (Aramaic) corresponding to ๏ฌฑึธื˜ึตืœ; to stop

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

Verse usage

  • Esdras 4:21 NASB
    "So, now issue a decree to make these men stop [work], that this city may not be rebuilt until a decree is issued by me.
  • Esdras 4:23 NASB
    Then as soon as the copy of King Artaxerxes' document was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their colleagues, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews and stopped them by force of arms.
  • Esdras 4:24 NASB
    Then work on the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it was stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
  • Esdras 5:5 NASB
    But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until a report could come to Darius, and then a written reply be returned concerning it.
  • Esdras 6:8 NASB
    "Moreover, I issue a decree concerning what you are to do for these elders of Judah in the rebuilding of this house of God: the full cost is to be paid to these people from the royal treasury out of the taxes of [the provinces] beyond the River, and that without delay.