Strong's Lexicon

H3617

H3617 — כָּלָה

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewkalahnoun femOccurrences: 21TWOT: 982a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H3617
Word:	כָּלָה
Part of Speech:	noun fem
Etymology:	from H3615
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	21
Transliteration:	kalah
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	kaw-law'
Meaning:	1. a completion 2. adverb, completely 3. also destruction
KJV Renderings:	altogether, (be, utterly) consume(-d), consummation(-ption), was determined, (full, utter) end, riddance.

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כָּלָה noun feminine completion, complete destruction, consumption, annihilation; always this form; —

1. completion, but only as adverb, and dubious: completely, altogether Gen 18:21 ( J ; read כֻּלָּם Ol Kau Buhl), Exod 11:1 (si vera lectio)

2. complete destruction, consumption, annihilation:

a. almost always by God, especially ׳ עָשָׂה כ Isa 10:23 (+ וְנֶחֱרָצָה), Nah 1:8 (2 accusative, si vera lectio; Buhl^{ZAW 1885, 181} proposes בְּקָמָיו for מְקוֺמָהּ see Id^{HWB 12} Kau^{AT, Text Krit. Erläut. p. 65}; see also מָקוֺם below קום), Nah 1:9; Jer 4:27; Neh 9:31 (2 accusative); + אֵת person = with , pregnant sense, = in dealing with (compare II. אֵת 1.d.), Zeph 1:18 (אַךְ נִבְהָלָה ׳ כ), Jer 5:18; Jer 30:11 = Jer 46:28 (אֹתְָךָ = אִתְּךָ), Ezek 11:13; Ezek 20:17 (אוֺתָם = אִתָּם); + בְּכָלגּֿוֺיִם Jer 30:11; Jer 46:28 without וְנֶחֱרָצָה שָׁמַעְתִּי ׃עשׂה ׳ כ Isa 28:22, ׳ וְנ ׳ עַדכֿ Dan 9:27 (on both compare Isa 10:23; Zeph 1:18); לְכָלָה for annihilation Ezek 13:13 (si vera lectio, see Co), ׳ וְלֹא לְהַשְׁחִית לְכ 2Chr 12:12.

b. by men, אַלֿ ׳ וְכ תַּעֲשׂוּ Jer 5:10 בְיָדוֺ ׳ וְכ Dan 11:16 and (i.e. with) annihilation in his hand.

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

אכלה (obh-lah’)

Genesis 1:29

KJV: And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.bearing…: Heb. seeding seedyielding…: Heb. seeding seed

EHCC: to you it shall be for meat.

Genesis 6:21

KJV: And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

EHCC: and it shall be for food for thee,

Genesis 9:3

KJV: Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

EHCC: shall be meat for you;

Exodus 16:15

KJV: And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.It is…: or, What is this? or, It is a portion

EHCC: the Lord hath given you fo eat,

Leviticus 11:39

KJV: And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.

EHCC: of which ne eat, (lit. which is to you

Jeremiah 12:9

KJV: Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.speckled: or, talonedcome to: or, cause them to come to

EHCC: all the beasts of the field, come fo devour.

Jeremiah 51:39

KJV: In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.

EHCC: 37 (. Thou shalt be for

Jeremiah 23:37

KJV: Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the Lord answered thee? and, What hath the Lord spoken?

EHCC: to pass for them through ( the fire), todevoxr

Jeremiah 39:1

KJV: In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

EHCC: ם have given thee for meat

Jeremiah 34:5

KJV: But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the Lord.

EHCC: became meat to all the beasts

Jeremiah 95:12

EHCC: they are given us fo consume.

Jeremiah 39:4

KJV: And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.

EHCC: the beasts of the field to be devoured.