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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

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Judges 3:18
    And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
  • Judges 15:17
    And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.
  • Ruth 2:21
    And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
  • Ruth 2:23
    So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.
  • Ruth 3:3
    Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.
  • Ruth 3:18
    Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day.
  • 1 Samuel 2:33
    And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
  • 1 Samuel 3:12
    In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.
  • 1 Samuel 10:13
    And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.
  • 1 Samuel 13:10
    And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.