Strong’s H988 · Hebrew

בָּטֵל
bâṭêl
baw-tale'

Definition

to desist from labor

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

  • cease

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.