"The halt and the blind" refers to people who have stopped walking

The parable of the great banquet sends a servant to gather "the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind" (Luke 14:21, KJV). Modern "halt" is a verb, to stop moving; in 1611 it was also a noun and adjective describing someone who limps or cannot walk properly, related to the now-rare verb "to halt," meaning to limp, which is a different word history entirely from the modern "halt" meaning cease.

Read with the modern sense, "the halt" is confusing, a group defined by having stopped rather than by any disability. Every modern translation renders this with "lame" or "crippled" directly, restoring the plain sense: the servant is told to bring in people society had shut out, not people standing still.