Lexical Summary kalah: to be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent Original Word: כָּלָהTransliteration: kalah Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-law') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent Meaning: to be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent Strong's Concordance accomplish, cease, consume away, determine, destroy utterlyA 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, X fully, X have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste. Brown-Driver-Briggs H3615. kalah I. כָּלָה206 verb be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, spent (Late Hebrew id., Pi`el; Phoenician כלה; Assyrian kalû, put and end to, and cease, vanish DlHWB 329; late Aramaic כְּלָא cease, perish (not ᵑ7); on root-meaning enclose compare כלא and BaZMG 1887, 605) — Qal. Perfect ׳כ 1 Kings 6:38 +; 3 feminine singular כָּֽלְתָה 1 Samuel 20:7 +; 1 singular כָּלִיתִי Psalm 39:11; 3plural כָּלוּ Job 19:27 +; 2 masculine plural כְּלִיתֶם Malachi 3:6; וּכְלִיתֶם consecutive Ezekiel 13:14; 1plural כָּלִינוּ Psalm 90:7, etc.; Imperfect יִכְלֶה Proverbs 22:8; jussive יִ֫כֶל Job 33:21 (see Dr§ 171-173 Ges§ 109. 2 b Anm. DaSynt. § 51 R. 5; 64 R. 6); 3 feminine singular תִּכְלָה 1 Kings 17:14; וַתֵּ֫כֶל Exodus 39:32 + 2 Samuel 13:39 (see below); 3 masculine plural יִכְלוּ Isaiah 1:28 +, יִכְלָי֑וּן 31:3, etc.; Infinitive construct כְּלוֺת Ruth 2:23 +, etc.; — 1. a. be complete, at an end, of a period of time Genesis 41:53 (E; opposed to III. חלל Hiph`il begin 41:54), Jeremiah 8:20 ("" עבר); so of action or event, with emphasis on time Isaiah 10:25; 24:13; Ruth 2:23; 2 Chronicles 29:28 (opposed to הֵחֵל 29:27), 29:34; Daniel 12:7 ("" קֵץ 12:6; 12:9); — see also 2b below b. be completed, finished, of a work: temple 1 Kings 6:38; 1 Chronicles 28:20; 2 Chronicles 8:16 ("" שָׁלֵם), tabernacle Exodus 39:32 (P). c. be accomplished, fulfilled, only of purposed wrath, or predicition of ׳י, Ezekiel 5:13 ("" כַּלּוֺתִי vb, see Pi`el), Daniel 11:36; 2 Chronicles 36:22 = Ezra 1:1. d. be ideally complete, be determined, always in bad sense, plotted, subject הָרָעָה: followed by מֵעִם of agent 1 Samuel 20:7, also 20:9 (+עַל לָבוֺא), + 20:33 (read כָּֽלְתָה, for ᵐ5 הִיא, כָּלָה ᵑ0 We Dr Kit Bu); ׳כ וְעַלכָּֿלבֵּֿיתוֺ אֶלאֲֿדֹנֵינוּ הָרָעָה 25:17; followed by מֵאֵת of agent Esther 7:7 (+ אֵלָיו). 2. a. be spent, used up (properly come to an end), of water Genesis 21:15 (E), meal 1 Kings 17:14, 16. b. waste away, be exhausted, fail, literally of fading grass Isaiah 15:6 ("" היה לֹא יָבֵשׁ,), of vintage 32:10 (opposed to בּוֺא), of vanishing cloud Job 7:9 (in simile, "" הלך); figurative of fleeting days of life 7:6 ("" קלל), compare Psalm 102:4 and חַיַּי בְיָגוֺן כָּלוּ 31:11; Jeremiah 20:18; see also 1a above; of flesh Job 33:21, compare of vital strength Psalm 71:9, וּשְׁאֵר בָּשָׂר Proverbs 5:11, וּלְבָבִי שְׁאֵרִי ׳כ Psalm 73:26, subject רוּחִי 143:7; once of ׳יs compassion רַחֲמָיו לֹאכָֿלוּ Lamentations 3:32 ("" תמם, on text see VB); especially of eyes exhausted by weeping 2:11, strained by looking (figurative) for relief or refreshment, pine, languish 4:17; Psalm 69:4; Job 11:20; 17:5; Jeremiah 14:6 (of wild asses); followed by לְ Lamentations 4:17 and, in spiritual sense, Psalm 119:82; 119:123; similarly (followed by לְ) of נפשׁ exhausted by longing 84:3 ("" נכסף), 119:81, בְּחֵקִי כִלְֹיתַי כָּלוּ Job 19:27; so also 2 Samuel 13:29 where read הַמֶּלֶךְ רוּחַ וַתֵּכֶל (for הַמּ דָּוִד ׳וַתְּכַל ᵑ0) and the spirit of the king pined to go forth unto Absalom, compare ᵐ5L We Klo Dr Kit Bu. c. come to an end, vanish = perish, be destroyed, by ׳יs judgment Isaiah 1:28 ("" שֶׁבֶר), 16:4 ("" תָּמַם אָפֵס,), 29:20 ("" נִכְרַת אָפֵס,), 31:3 ("" נפל כשׁל,), יִכְלוּ וּבָרָעָב וּבַחֶרֶב Jeremiah 16:4, compare 44:27 ("" תָּמַם), Ezekiel 5:12 ("" נָפַל מוּת,), 13:14; Malachi 3:6; Psalm 37:20 (twice in verse); ("" אבד), Job 4:9 ("" id.), Psalm 71:13 ("" בּוֺשׁ); hyperbole, of severe discipline 39:11; 90:7 ("" נבהל); of prosperity of a people Isaiah 21:16; יִכְלֶה עֶבְרָתוֺ שֵׁבֶט Proverbs 22:8 the rod of his wrath perishes (> Ew and others is accomplished, of God's wrath). — Daniel 12:7 read perhaps קֹדֶשׁ עַם נֹפֵץ יַד וְכִכְלוֺת and when the power of the shatterer of the holy people should come to an end, so Bev after ᵐ5 (for difficult יַדעַֿםקֹֿדֶשׁ נַמֵּץ וּכְכַלּוֺת ᵑ0) . Pi`el140 Perfect כִּלָּה Genesis 18:33 +, כִּלָּא Proverbs 16:30 Baer (van d. H כִּלָּה), suffix כִּלָּנוּ 2 Samuel 21:5, כִּלָּם Lamentations 2:22; 3feminine singular וְכִלְּתָה consecutive Hosea 11:6, suffix וְכִ֫לַּתּוּ consecutive Zechariah 5:4; 1singular כִּלִּיתִי Numbers 25:11, כִּלֵּיתִי Isaiah 49:4, וְכִלֵּיתִ֫י Ezekiel 6:12 2t.; suffix כִּלִּיתִים 22:31, וְכִלִּיתִיךָ consecutive Exodus 33:5; 3plural כִּלּוּ Genesis 24:19 +, etc.; Imperfect יְכַלֶּה Isaiah 10:18; וַיְכַל Genesis 2:2-3;feminine singular וַתְּכַל 24:19 + 2 Samuel 13:39 (but read וַתֵּכֶל We Dr and others, and see Qal 2 b); 1 singular אֲכַלֶּה Genesis 24:25 4t.; וָאֲכַל Ezekiel 43:8; suffix אֲכֶלְךָ Exodus 33:3 (Köi. 545); 3 masculine plural יְכַלּוּ Job 36:11 + 21:13 Qr (Kt יבלי; see בלה above), +, etc.; Imperative כַּלֵּה Psalm 59:14 (twice in verse) + 74:11 (but text dubious, see below, 2); masculine plural כַּלּוּ Exodus 5:13; Infinitive absolute כַּלֵּה 1 Samuel 3:12 5t.; construct לְכַלֵּא Daniel 9:24 (metaplastic form), כַּלּוֺת 1 Samuel 2:33 +, etc.; Participle מְכַלֵּה Jeremiah 14:12; Job 9:22; feminine plural מְכַלּוֺת Leviticus 26:16; — 1 a. complete, bring to an end, finish a thing, task, work, etc., with accusative of thing Exodus 5:13-14, (+ infinitive; both J), 1 Kings 6:9, 14; 7:1; Ezekiel 42:15; Genesis 2:2; 16:16; Exodus 40:33 (P), Ruth 2:21; 2 Chronicles 31:1; 7:11; Ezra 9:1, so הַמֶּשַׁע לְכַלֵּא Daniel 9:24 to make an end of the transgression (compare VB Bev); Leviticus 23:22 (modified from 19:9 q.see below); accusative omitted 2 Chronicles 31:7 (opposed to לְ הֵחֵל), 24:10, 14; Nehemiah 3:34. b. complete a period of time יָמִים Ezekiel 4:6, 8; complete one's days, enjoy the full measure of human life Job 21:13; 36:11, or bring one's years to an end Psalm 90:9, with added idea of transitoriness. c. finish doing a thing, usually followed by ל infinitive Genesis 18:33; 24:15, 19 (twice in verse); 24:22 (all J), 17:22; Exodus 31:18; Numbers 4:15 (all P), Amos 7:2; 1 Kings 1:41; 2 Chronicles 29:29; Ruth 3:3 31t. including 2 Samuel 11:19, where object of infin. precedes it, see Dr, so Leviticus 19:9 (compare 23:22 above); + 1 Chronicles 27:24 (לְ infinitive omitted; opposed to לְ הֵחֵל), 2 Chronicles 29:17; + Daniel 12:7 (infinitive without לְ; but see Qal 2 c near the end); followed by מִן infinitive, 1 Samuel 10:13; 2 Samuel 6:18 = 1 Chronicles 16:2; Exodus 34:33; Leviticus 16:20; Joshua 19:51 (all P), Ezekiel 43:23. d. make an end, end, followed by בְּ make an end with, finish dealing with 2 Chronicles 20:23; Ezra 10:17; absolute, opposed to כִּלָּה וּבַקָּטֹן הֵחֵל בַּגָּדוֺל הֵחֵל, Genesis 44:12 (J) he began with the eldest and with the youngest he ended; so infinitive absolute adverb. וְכַלֵּה הָחֵל 1 Samuel 3:12 a beginning and an ending, i.e. doing it thoroughly (see Dr); also עַדכַּֿלֵּה = utterly 2 Kings 13:17, 19, to extremity Ezra 9:14 (of ׳יs anger), עַדלְֿכַלֵּה (late) = completely2 Chronicles 24:10 (until all had given), 31:1 (until all were destroyed). e. accomplish, fulfil, bring to pass, a thing Ruth 3:18; with accusative of ׳יs wrath (חֲמָתוֺ) Lamentations 4:11; so (אַמִּי חֲמָתִי,) + ב person Ezekiel 5:13; 6:12; 7:8; 13:15; 20:8, 21. f. accomplish in thought, determine (compare Qal 1 d) followed by רָעָה Proverbs 16:30 ("" חשׁב). 2. a. put an end to, cause to cease Numbers 17:25 (+ מֵעָלַי); יְמֵיהֶם וַיְכַלבַּֿהֶבֶל Psalm 78:33 and he consumed (caused to vanish) as vanity their days. b. cause to fail, exhaust, use up, spend, אֲכַלֶּהבָּֿם חִצַּי Deuteronomy 32:23 my arrows will I exhaust against them; exhaust one's strength כֹּחַ Isaiah 49:4 ("" יָגַע); the eyes (by weeping; compare Qal 2 b) 1 Samuel 2:33; Job 31:16; of a disease, consume the eyes Leviticus 26:16 (H). c. destroy, sometimes exterminate: (1) men subject, with accusative of person 2 Samuel 21:5; 22:39 ("" מחץ), Deuteronomy 7:22; 2 Chronicles 8:8; Jeremiah 10:25 ("" אכל), Lamentations 2:22; Psalm 119:87; especially in phrase כַּלּוֺתָם עַד 1 Samuel 15:18 (on text see Dr), 2 Samuel 22:38 ("" השׁמיד) = Psalm 18:38, 1 Kings 22:11 2 Chronicles 18:10; (2) God subject, with accusative of person Joshua 24:20 (E), Isaiah 10:18 (Assyrian host, under figure of forest); Jeremiah 5:3; Exodus 32:10; 33:3, 5 (JE), Numbers 16:21; 17:10; 25:11 (all P), Leviticus 26:44 (H), Ezekiel 20:13; 22:31; 43:8; Job 9:22; אֹתְךָ כַּלֹּתוֺ עַד Deuteronomy 28:21, אוֺתָם כַּלּוֺתִי עַד Jeremiah 9:15; 49:37; absolute Psalm 59:14 (twice in verse); so also (si vera lectio) 74:11 (see VB; Bi Che תִּכְלָא חֵקְךָ בְּקֶרֶב and thy right hand (why) keepest thou in thy bosom); accusative + ב instrumental Jeremiah 14:12 (by sword, famine, and pestilence); sometimes the instrument of ׳יs judgment becomes grammatical subject; subject הַחֶרֶב Hosea 11:6 (object בַּדָּיו, of city; "" אכל), subject עֵגֶל Isaiah 27:10 (object סְעִפֶֿיהָ; "" רָעָה), subject flying roll Zechariah 5:4 (object house). Pu`al Perfect3plural כָּלּוּ Psalm 72:20 be finished, ended; Imperfect3masculine plural וַיְכֻלּוּ Genesis 2:1 be completed (P). |