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Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917. ## Meaning ### OpenScriptures lexical index cease [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5d8_5b5_5dc/#m1) ### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 בְּטֵל: vb. cease [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5d8_5b5_5dc/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** vb. cease (late BH);— Pf. 3 fs. בְּטִלַת Ezr 4:24, Pt. fs. בָּֽטְלָא v 24 (both of work). make to cease, acc. pers.: Pf. 3 mpl. בַּטִּ֫לוּ 4:23; 5:5; Inf. לְבַטָּלָא 4:21, acc. pers. om. 6:8. ### Jastrow 1903 בְּטֵל: annulled; neutralized to be abolished, removed, undone to be disturbed, to be forced to be idle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5d8_5b5_5dc/#m3) **The whole Jastrow entry:** ; 1) as h. Kal 1). Targ. Lam. V, 15; a. e.—Sot. 33ᵃ בטילת עבידתא וכ׳ the decree enforcing idol worship in the Temple has been repealed. Meg. Taan. XI on the twenty second (of Shebat) ב׳ עבידתא was the decree &c. revoked. Sabb. 139ᵃ, Snh. 98ᵃ אי בטלי וכ׳; v. אַמְגּוֹשָׁא. R. Hash. 18ᵇ בטילת אדכרתא (Meg. Taan. VII אתנטילת, read אתב׳), v. אַדְכַּרְתָּא; a. fr.—2) as h. Kal 2). Targ. Y. Ex. XVII, 1 \[read:\] דבְטִילוּ אידיהון when their hands were lazy &c.—Part. pass. בָּטִיל annulled; neutralized (in a larger quantity, v. preced. Pi.). Ḥull. 100ᵃ, a. fr. (in Hebr. phraseol.) מין במינו לא ב׳ in a mixture of homogeneous things (of which one is forbidden) the rule of neutralization by quantity takes no effect. Ib. 99ᵃ ברובא ב׳ it is neutralized in any larger quantity (than the forbidden ingredient); a. fr.—Ib. 100ᵃ top ותבטיל, v. Ithpe. as h. Pi. Targ. Ps. XXXIII, 10 (some ed. incorr. בְּטִיל); a. e.—Erub. 66ᵇ למאן נִיבַטֵּיל to whom should he resign his right of usage (for Sabbath purposes)? לִיבַטֵּיל וכ׳ shall he resign &c.? Ib. 67ᵃ בַּטּוּלֵי … מְבַטֵיל. Pes. 6ᵇ לְבַטְּלֵיה let him renounce it (the leavened thing). Ib. וניבטליה בארבע let him renounce it at four hours of the day. Gitt. 36ᵇ אֲבַטְּלִינֵיה I would repeal it (that law). Ib. 32ᵃ דבטולי בטליה that he revoked it (the letter of divorce); a. fr. = Pa. Targ. Y. Gen. VI, 7 1) = Pa. Targ. Y. Gen. VI, 7 אַבְטִיל I will undo (h. text אמחה); a. e. = h. Hif. Targ. Is. XXX, 11 אַבְטְלוּנָא מ־ make ye us free from tradition. , contr. אִיבְּטִיל. to be abolished, removed, undone. Targ. Job XVII, 11; a. fr.—Gitt. 32ᵃ; 32ᵇ בָּטֵל has two meanings משמע דבטל ומשמע דלִיבְּטִיל it may mean ‘it is void’, and may mean ‘be it declared void’. Ḥull. 100ᵃ ותבְּטִיל ברובא (or ותִבְטִיל) let it be neutralized in the larger mixture; (why is it not &c.?) to be disturbed, to be forced to be idle. Targ. Koh. XII, 3; a. e. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates) ## Glosses MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: make to cease (2); ceasing (1); it ceased (1). ## In the verses [Ezra 4:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.21/#tree) כְּעַן֙ שִׂ֣ימוּ טְּעֵ֔םלְבַטָּלָ֖א גֻּבְרַיָּ֣א אִלֵּ֑ךְ וְקִרְיְתָ֥א דָךְ֙ לָ֣א תִתְבְּנֵ֔א עַד־מִנִּ֖י טַעְמָ֥א יִתְּשָֽׂם׃ *Word for word:* now make a.decree to make.to.cease the men these and the city this not it.will.be.built until from me the decree it.will.be.made *JPS 1917:* Make ye now a decree to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until a decree shall be made by me. [Ezra 4:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.24/#tree) בֵּאדַ֗יִן בְּטֵלַת֙ עֲבִידַ֣ת בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֔א דִּ֖י בִּירוּשְׁלֶ֑ם וַהֲוָת֙ בָּֽטְלָ֔א עַ֚ד שְׁנַ֣ת תַּרְתֵּ֔ין לְמַלְכ֖וּת דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מֶֽלֶךְ־פָּרָֽס׃פ *Word for word:* then it.ceased the.work of.the.house of.(the) God which \[is\].in Jerusalem and it.was ceasing until year two of the.reign of.Darius the.king of.Persia *JPS 1917:* Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. ## On Mova - [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5d8_5b5_5dc.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5d8_5b5_5dc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).