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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. Proverbs 16:30כִּלָּ֥ה · is bent on
    He who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.
  2. Proverbs 22:8יִכְלֶֽה׃ · will be destroyed
    He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
  3. Isaiah 1:28יִכְלֽוּ׃ · will perish
    But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.
  4. Isaiah 10:18יְכַלֶּ֑ה · it will completely destroy
    The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.
  5. Isaiah 10:25וְכָ֣לָה · will subside
    For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
  6. Isaiah 15:6כָּ֣לָה · is gone
    The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.
  7. Isaiah 16:4כָּ֣לָה · has ceased
    Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.” When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land,
  8. Isaiah 21:16וְכָלָ֖ה · will be gone
    For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.
  9. Isaiah 24:13כָּלָ֥ה
    So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
  10. Isaiah 27:10וְכִלָּ֥ה · they strip
    For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
  11. Isaiah 29:20וְכָ֣לָה · will disappear
    For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down—
  12. Isaiah 31:3יִכְלָיֽוּן׃ס · will perish
    But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.
  13. Isaiah 32:10כָּלָ֣ה · will fail
    In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.
  14. Isaiah 49:4כִלֵּ֑יתִי · I have spent
    But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”
  15. Jeremiah 5:3כִּלִּיתָ֕ם · You finished them off
    O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
  16. Jeremiah 8:20כָּ֣לָה · has ended
    “The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”
  17. Jeremiah 9:16כַּלּוֹתִ֖י · I have finished them off
    I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”
  18. Jeremiah 10:25וַיְכַלֻּ֔הוּ · and finished him off
    Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.
  19. Jeremiah 14:6כָּל֥וּ · fail
    Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
  20. Jeremiah 14:12מְכַלֶּ֥ה · will finish them off
    Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”
  21. Jeremiah 16:4יִכְל֔וּ · They will be finished off
    “They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”
  22. Jeremiah 20:18וַיִּכְל֥וּ · and to end
    Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
  23. Jeremiah 26:8כְּכַלּ֣וֹת · had finished
    …and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, “You must surely die!
  24. Jeremiah 43:1כְּכַלּ֨וֹת · had finished
    When Jeremiah had finished telling all the people all the words of the LORD their God—everything that the LORD had sent him to say—
  25. Jeremiah 44:27כְּלוֹתָֽם׃ · they are finished off
    I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are finished off.
  26. Jeremiah 49:37כַּלּוֹתִ֖י · I finish them off
    So I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, even My fierce anger,” declares the LORD. “I will send out the sword after them until I finish them off.
  27. Jeremiah 51:63כְּכַלֹּ֣תְךָ֔ · When you finish
    When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.
  28. Lamentations 2:11כָּל֨וּ · fail
    My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
  29. Lamentations 2:22כִלָּֽם׃פ · has destroyed
    You summoned my terrors on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
  30. Lamentations 3:22כָל֖וּ · fail
    Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
  31. Lamentations 4:11כִּלָּ֤ה · has exhausted
    The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.
  32. Lamentations 4:17תִּכְלֶ֣ינָה · were failing
    All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
  33. Ezekiel 4:6וְכִלִּיתָ֣ · When you have completed
    When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.
  34. Ezekiel 4:8כַּלּוֹתְךָ֖ · you have finished
    Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.
  35. Ezekiel 5:12יִכְל֣וּ · or be consumed
    A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.
  36. Ezekiel 5:13וְכָלָ֣ה · is spent; בְּכַלּוֹתִ֥י · And when I have spent
    And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, in My zeal have spoken.
  37. Ezekiel 6:12וְכִלֵּיתִ֥י · So I will vent
    He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them.
  38. Ezekiel 7:8וְכִלֵּיתִ֤י · and vent
    Very soon I will pour out My wrath upon you and vent My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.
  39. Ezekiel 13:14וּכְלִיתֶ֣ם · and you will be destroyed
    I will tear down the wall you whitewashed and level it to the ground, so that its foundation is exposed. The city will fall, and you will be destroyed within it. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
  40. Ezekiel 13:15וְכִלֵּיתִ֤י · And after I have vented
    And after I have vented My wrath against the wall and against those who whitewashed it, I will say to you: ‘The wall is gone, and so are those who whitewashed it—
  41. Ezekiel 20:8לְכַלּ֤וֹת · and vent
    But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt.
  42. Ezekiel 20:13לְכַלּוֹתָֽם׃ · and put an end to them
    Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
  43. Ezekiel 20:21לְכַלּ֥וֹת · and vent
    But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
  44. Ezekiel 22:31כִּלִּיתִ֑ים · and consumed them
    So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”
  45. Ezekiel 42:15וְכִלָּ֗ה · Now when [the man] had finished
    Now when the man had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and he measured the area all around:
  46. Ezekiel 43:8וָאֲכַ֥ל · Therefore I have consumed
    When they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they defiled My holy name by the abominations they committed. Therefore I have consumed them in My anger.
  47. Ezekiel 43:23בְּכַלּוֹתְךָ֖ · When you have finished
    When you have finished the purification, you are to present a young, unblemished bull and an unblemished ram from the flock.
  48. Ezekiel 43:27וִֽיכַלּ֖וּ · At the end
    At the end of these days, from the eighth day on, the priests are to present your burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar. Then I will accept you, declares the Lord GOD.’”
  49. Daniel 9:24לְכַלֵּ֨א · to stop
    Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.