# בְּטֵל (betel)

Israeli respelling: be-tel. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H989. 5 Old Testament occurrences.

to stop

King James renderings: (cause, make to), cease, hinder.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/betel-h989

## Occurrences

- [Ezra 4:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/4/21) — Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given from me.
- [Ezra 4:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/4/23) — Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to…
- [Ezra 4:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/4/24) — Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- [Ezra 5:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/5/5) — But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then…
- [Ezra 6:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/6/8) — Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even…