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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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  • Deuteronomy 26:12
    When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;
  • Deuteronomy 28:21
    The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
  • Deuteronomy 31:24
    And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
  • Deuteronomy 32:23
    I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
  • Deuteronomy 32:45
    And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
  • Joshua 8:24
    And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
  • Joshua 10:20
    And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities.
  • Joshua 19:49
    When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:
  • Joshua 19:51
    These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.
  • Joshua 24:20
    If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.