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Strong's numbers

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.

  • 2 Samuel 21:5
    And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
  • 2 Samuel 22:38
    I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.
  • 2 Samuel 22:39
    And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
  • 1 Kings 1:41
    And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?
  • 1 Kings 3:1
    And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
  • 1 Kings 6:9
    So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
  • 1 Kings 6:14
    So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
  • 1 Kings 6:38
    And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
  • 1 Kings 7:1
    But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
  • 1 Kings 7:40
    And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD: