Genesis 11:8

11:8 So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building ¹  the city.

Genesis 18:11

18:11 Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; ²  Sarah had long since passed menopause.) ³ 

Genesis 41:49

41:49 Joseph stored up a vast amount of grain, like the sand of the sea, ⁴  until he stopped measuring it because it was impossible to measure.

[11:8]  ¹ tn The infinitive construct לִבְנֹת (livnot, “building”) here serves as the object of the verb “they ceased, stopped,” answering the question of what they stopped doing.

[18:11]  ² tn Heb “days.”

[18:11]  ³ tn Heb “it had ceased to be for Sarah [after] a way like women.”

[41:49]  ³ tn Heb “and Joseph gathered grain like the sand of the sea, multiplying much.” To emphasize the vast amount of grain he stored up, the Hebrew text modifies the verb “gathered” with an infinitive absolute and an adverb.