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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. Genesis 2:1וַיְכֻלּ֛וּ · were completed
    Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
  2. Genesis 2:2וַיְכַ֤ל · had finished
    And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
  3. Genesis 6:16תְּכַלֶ֣נָּה · finish [its walls]
    You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.
  4. Genesis 17:22וַיְכַ֖ל · When He had finished
    When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.
  5. Genesis 18:33כִּלָּ֔ה · had finished
    When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned home.
  6. Genesis 21:15וַיִּכְל֥וּ · was gone
    When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.
  7. Genesis 24:15כִּלָּ֣ה · had finished
    Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.
  8. Genesis 24:19וַתְּכַ֖ל · After she; כִּלּ֖וּ · they have had enough
    After she had given him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink.”
  9. Genesis 24:22כִּלּ֤וּ · had finished
    And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.
  10. Genesis 24:45אֲכַלֶּ֜ה · had finished
    And before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’
  11. Genesis 27:30כִּלָּ֣ה · had finished
    As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.
  12. Genesis 41:30וְכִלָּ֥ה · will devastate
    …but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.
  13. Genesis 41:53וַתִּכְלֶ֕ינָה · came to an end
    When the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end,
  14. Genesis 43:2כִּלּוּ֙ · [Jacob’s sons] had eaten all
    So when Jacob’s sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”
  15. Genesis 44:12כִּלָּ֑ה · and ending
    The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest—and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
  16. Genesis 49:33וַיְכַ֤ל · had finished
    When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and he was gathered to his people.
  17. Exodus 5:13כַּלּ֤וּ · Fulfill
    The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
  18. Exodus 5:14כִלִּיתֶ֨ם · fulfilled
    Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?”
  19. Exodus 31:18כְּכַלֹּתוֹ֙ · When [the LORD] had finished
    When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
  20. Exodus 32:10וַאֲכַלֵּ֑ם · and consume them
    Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
  21. Exodus 32:12וּ֨לְכַלֹּתָ֔ם · and wipe them
    Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.
  22. Exodus 33:3אֲכֶלְךָ֖ · I might destroy
    Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”
  23. Exodus 33:5וְכִלִּיתִ֑יךָ · I would destroy you
    For the LORD had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I should go with you for a single moment, I would destroy you. Now take off your jewelry, and I will decide what to do with you.’”
  24. Exodus 34:33וַיְכַ֣ל · had finished
    When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.
  25. Exodus 39:32וַתֵּ֕כֶל · was completed
    So all the work for the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
  26. Exodus 40:33וַיְכַ֥ל · finished
    And Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar, and he hung the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.
  27. Leviticus 16:20וְכִלָּה֙ · When [Aaron] has finished
    When Aaron has finished purifying the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he is to bring forward the live goat.
  28. Leviticus 19:9תְכַלֶּ֛ה · to reap
    When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
  29. Leviticus 23:22תְכַלֶּ֞ה · all the way
    When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.’”
  30. Leviticus 26:16מְכַלּ֥וֹת · that will destroy
    …then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
  31. Leviticus 26:44לְכַלֹּתָ֔ם · so as to destroy them
    Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
  32. Numbers 4:15וְכִלָּ֣ה · have finished
    When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy objects and all their equipment, as soon as the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites shall come and do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy objects, or they will die. These are the transportation duties of the Kohathites regarding the Tent of Meeting.
  33. Numbers 7:1כַּלּ֨וֹת · finished
    On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings, along with the altar and all its utensils.
  34. Numbers 16:21וַאַכַלֶּ֥ה · so that I may consume
    “Separate yourselves from this congregation so that I may consume them in an instant.”
  35. Numbers 16:31כְּכַלֹּת֔וֹ · As soon as [Moses] had finished
    As soon as Moses had finished saying all this, the ground beneath them split open,
  36. Numbers 16:45וַאֲכַלֶּ֥ה · so that I may consume
    “Get away from this congregation so that I may consume them in an instant.” And Moses and Aaron fell facedown.
  37. Numbers 17:10וּתְכַ֧ל · so that you may put an end
    The LORD said to Moses, “Put Aaron’s staff back in front of the Testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebellious, so that you may put an end to their grumbling against Me, lest they die.”
  38. Numbers 25:11כִלִּ֥יתִי · consume
    “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites; for he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in My zeal.
  39. Deuteronomy 7:22כַּלֹּתָ֣ם · to eliminate them
    The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.
  40. Deuteronomy 20:9כְּכַלֹּ֥ת · have finished
    When the officers have finished addressing the army, they are to appoint commanders to lead it.
  41. Deuteronomy 26:12תְכַלֶּ֞ה · you have finished laying aside
    When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates.
  42. Deuteronomy 28:21כַּלֹּת֣וֹ · He has exterminated
    The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.
  43. Deuteronomy 31:24כְּכַלּ֣וֹת · had finished
    When Moses had finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end,
  44. Deuteronomy 32:23אֲכַלֶּה־ · I will spend
    I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.
  45. Deuteronomy 32:45וַיְכַ֣ל · had finished
    When Moses had finished reciting all these words to all Israel,
  46. Joshua 8:24כְּכַלּ֣וֹת · had finished
    When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and put it to the sword as well.
  47. Joshua 10:20כְּכַלּ֨וֹת · continued
    So Joshua and the Israelites continued to inflict a terrible slaughter until they had finished them off, and the remaining survivors retreated to the fortified cities.
  48. Joshua 19:49וַיְכַלּ֥וּ · When they had finished
    When they had finished distributing the land into its territories, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun an inheritance among them,
  49. Joshua 19:51וַיְכַלּ֕וּ · So they finished
    These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families distributed by lot to the tribes of Israel at Shiloh before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing up the land.