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# חֶדֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2309

**cessation** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cessation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2309/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶ֫דֶל: cessation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2309/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] cessation, only יוֹשְׁבֵי חָ֑דֶל Is. 38:11 (so Baer) inhabitants of (land of) cessation, i.e. of Sheʾôl; v. Di; but read rather חָ֑לֶד, v. חֶלֶד.

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 (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of cessation (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 38:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.11/#tree)

אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ לֹא־אֶרְאֶ֣ה יָ֔הּ יָ֖הּ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ הַחַיִּ֑ים לֹא־אַבִּ֥יט אָדָ֛ם ע֖וֹד עִם־י֥וֹשְׁבֵי חָֽדֶל׃

*Word for word:* I.said not I.will.see Yahweh Yahweh in the.land of the.living not I.will.look.at humankind again with \[the\].inhabitants of.cessation

*JPS 1917:* I said: I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD in the land of the living; I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2309.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2309/): 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).