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כָּלָה H3615

kâlâh

kaw-law'

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

Brown–Driver–Briggs

כָּלָה 204 vb. be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, spent
Qal
1
a be complete, at an end, of a period of time
b be completed, finished, of a work
c be accomplished, fulfilled
d be idealy complete, be determined, always in a bad sense, plotted
2
a be spent, used up (prop. come to an end), of water
b waste away, be exhausted, fail
c come to an end, vanish = perish, be destroyed
Pi.
1
a complete, bring to an end, finish, a thing, task, work, etc.
b complete a period of time
c finish doing a thing
d make an end, end
e accomplish, fulfil, bring to pass
f accomplish in thought, determine
2
a put an end to, cause to cease
b cause to fail, exhaust, use up, spend
c destroy, sts. exterminate

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


200 occurrences

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  • Isaiah 10:25
    For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
  • Isaiah 15:6
    For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
  • Isaiah 16:4
    Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
  • Isaiah 21:16
    For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
  • Isaiah 24:13
    When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
  • Isaiah 27:10
    Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
  • Isaiah 29:20
    For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
  • Isaiah 31:3
    Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
  • Isaiah 32:10
    Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
  • Isaiah 49:4
    Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.