betel · cease, stop

What it means

betel (בְּטֵל) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “cease, stop”.

To cease, to stop; in its causative form, to make stop (Aramaic). It is the verb with which Ezra tells that the work on the house of God was stopped.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Halt; make a work come to a halt.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• cease ×3
• ceased ×1
• stoppage ×1
• stopped ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Ezra 4:21

  Now give an order to make those men cease, and that city is not to be built until by me the order is given.

• Ezra 4:23

  Then, as soon as the copy of the letter of Artaxerxes the king was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem, to the Jews, and made them cease by force and with troops.

• Ezra 4:24

  Then the work of the house of Elah which is in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

• Ezra 5:5

  But the eye of their Elah was upon the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease until the report should go to Darius and then they should return a letter about this.

• Ezra 6:8

  And by me an order is given concerning what you shall do with these elders of the Jews for the building of that house of Elah: from the goods of the king, which are from the tribute of the other side of the river, with diligence let the cost be paid to these men, so that there be no stoppage.

And 1 more times.