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כָּלָה

ka.lahto end: finishHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb207 occurrences29 books201 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitive (to complete, prepare, consume)
Traditional renderings: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, × fully, × have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders כָּלָה:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

207 total
  1. Joshua 24:20וְכִלָּ֣ה · and consume
    If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He has been good to you.”
  2. Judges 3:18כִּלָּ֔ה · Ehud had finished
    After Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he ushered out those who had carried it.
  3. Judges 15:17כְּכַלֹּת֣וֹ · when [Samson] had finished
    And when Samson had finished speaking, he cast the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.
  4. Ruth 2:21כִּלּ֔וּ · they have finished gathering
    Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished gathering all my harvest.’”
  5. Ruth 2:23כְּל֥וֹת · were finished
    So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.
  6. Ruth 3:3כַּלֹּת֖וֹ · he has finished
    Therefore wash yourself, put on perfume, and wear your best clothes. Go down to the threshing floor, but do not let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.
  7. Ruth 3:18כִּלָּ֥ה · he has resolved
    “Wait, my daughter,” said Naomi, “until you find out how things go, for he will not rest unless he has resolved the matter today.”
  8. 1 Samuel 2:33לְכַלּ֥וֹת · to fail
    And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, I will cause your eyes to fail and your heart to grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.
  9. 1 Samuel 3:12וְכַלֵּֽה׃ · to end
    On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his house, from beginning to end.
  10. 1 Samuel 10:13וַיְכַל֙ · And when Saul had finished
    And when Saul had finished prophesying, he went up to the high place.
  11. 1 Samuel 13:10כְּכַלֹּתוֹ֙ · Just as he finished
    Just as he finished offering the burnt offering, Samuel arrived, and Saul went out to greet him.
  12. 1 Samuel 15:18כַּלּוֹתָ֖ם · you have wiped them out
    …and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’
  13. 1 Samuel 18:1כְּכַלֹּתוֹ֙ · David had finished
    After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.
  14. 1 Samuel 20:7כָלְתָ֥ה · intentions
    If he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he is enraged, you will know he has evil intentions.
  15. 1 Samuel 20:9כָלְתָ֨ה · intentions
    “Never!” Jonathan replied. “If I ever found out that my father had evil intentions against you, would I not tell you?”
  16. 1 Samuel 20:33כָ֥לָה · was determined
    Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.
  17. 1 Samuel 24:16כְּכַלּ֣וֹת · had finished
    When David had finished saying these things, Saul called back, “Is that your voice, David my son?” Then Saul wept aloud
  18. 1 Samuel 25:17כָלְתָ֧ה · looms
    Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”
  19. 2 Samuel 6:18וַיְכַ֣ל · had finished
    When David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of Hosts.
  20. 2 Samuel 11:19כְּכַלּוֹתְךָ֗ · When you have finished
    …and instructed the messenger, “When you have finished giving the king a full account of the battle,
  21. 2 Samuel 13:36כְּכַלֹּת֣וֹ · And as he finished
    And as he finished speaking, the sons of the king came in, wailing loudly. Then the king and all his servants also wept very bitterly.
  22. 2 Samuel 13:39וַתְּכַל֙ · longed
    And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.
  23. 2 Samuel 21:5כִּלָּ֔נוּ · consumed us
    And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,
  24. 2 Samuel 22:38כַּלּוֹתָֽם׃ · they were consumed
    I pursued my enemies and destroyed them; I did not turn back until they were consumed.
  25. 2 Samuel 22:39וָאֲכַלֵּ֥ם · I devoured
    I devoured and crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.
  26. 1 Kings 1:41כִּלּ֣וּ · were finishing
    Now Adonijah and all his guests were finishing their feast when they heard the sound of the ram’s horn. “Why is the city in such a loud uproar?” asked Joab.
  27. 1 Kings 3:1כַּלֹּת֗וֹ · he had finished
    Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.
  28. 1 Kings 6:9וַיְכַלֵּ֑הוּ · and finished it
    So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.
  29. 1 Kings 6:14וַיְכַלֵּֽהוּ׃ · and finished
    So Solomon built the temple and finished it.
  30. 1 Kings 6:38כָּלָ֣ה · was finished
    In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.
  31. 1 Kings 7:1וַיְכַ֖ל · to complete
    Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace.
  32. 1 Kings 7:40וַיְכַ֣ל · finished
    Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished all the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of the LORD:
  33. 1 Kings 8:54כְּכַלּ֣וֹת · had finished
    Now when Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.
  34. 1 Kings 9:1כְּכַלּ֣וֹת · had finished
    Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,
  35. 1 Kings 17:14תִכְלָ֔ה · be exhausted
    …for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.’”
  36. 1 Kings 17:16כָלָ֔תָה · exhausted
    The jar of flour was not exhausted and the jug of oil did not run dry, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Elijah.
  37. 1 Kings 22:11כַּלֹּתָֽם׃ · they are finished off
    Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”
  38. 2 Kings 10:25כְּכַלֹּת֣וֹ׀ · When he had finished
    When he had finished making the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and officers, “Go in and kill them. Do not let anyone out.” So the guards and officers put them to the sword, threw the bodies out, and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal.
  39. 2 Kings 13:17כַּלֵּֽה׃ · you have put an end to them
    “Open the east window,” said Elisha. So he opened it and Elisha said, “Shoot!” So he shot. And Elisha declared: “This is the LORD’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram, for you shall strike the Arameans in Aphek until you have put an end to them.”
  40. 2 Kings 13:19כַּלֵּ֑ה · you had put an end to it
    But the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times. Then you would have struck down Aram until you had put an end to it. But now you will strike down Aram only three times.”
  41. 1 Chronicles 16:2וַיְכַ֣ל · had finished
    When David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD.
  42. 1 Chronicles 27:24כִלָּ֔ה · finish
    Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men but did not finish. For because of this census wrath came upon Israel, and the number was not entered in the Book of the Chronicles of King David.
  43. 1 Chronicles 28:20לִכְל֕וֹת · is finished
    David also said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will neither fail you nor forsake you before all the work for the service of the house of the LORD is finished.
  44. 2 Chronicles 4:11וַיְכַ֣ל · finished
    Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of God:
  45. 2 Chronicles 7:1וּכְכַלּ֤וֹת · had finished
    When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.
  46. 2 Chronicles 7:11וַיְכַ֧ל · had finished
    When Solomon had finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, successfully carrying out all that was in his heart to do for the house of the LORD and for his own palace,
  47. 2 Chronicles 8:8כִלּ֖וּם · destroyed
    …their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites had not destroyed—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.
  48. 2 Chronicles 8:16כְּלֹת֑וֹ · it was finished
    Thus all the work of Solomon was carried out, from the day the foundation was laid for the house of the LORD until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed.
  49. 2 Chronicles 18:10כַּלּוֹתָֽם׃ · they are finished off
    Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”
  50. 2 Chronicles 20:23וּכְכַלּוֹתָם֙ · And when they had finished off
    The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction. And when they had finished off the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.