To CEASE, leave off, come to an end. Isaiah 53:3's chadal ishim is strange and strong — not 'rejected of men' (KJV, ASV) but a CEASING of men: one who has stopped counting among people, who has dropped out of the human ledger. The same root gives Job 3:17, where in death 'the wicked cease from raging'. → first discussed at Isaiah 53:3