Strong's #3607: kala' (pronounced kaw-law')

a primitive root; to restrict, by act (hold back or in) or word (prohibit):--finish, forbid, keep (back), refrain, restrain, retain, shut up, be stayed, withhold.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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kâlâ'

1) to restrict, restrain, withhold, shut up, keep back, refrain, forbid

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to shut up

1a2) to restrain

1a3) to withhold

1b) (Niphal) to be restrained

1c) (Piel) to finish

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 18 times:

 

Genesis 8:2: "and the rain from heaven was restrained;"
Genesis 23:6: "thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulcher,"
Exodus 36:6: "work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing."
Numbers 11:28: "answered and said, Moses, forbid"
1 Samuel 6:10: "kine, and tied and shut up their calves at home:"
1 Samuel 25:33: "and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day"
Psalms 40:9: "congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, thou knowest."
Psalms 40:11: " Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth"
Psalms 88:8: "far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth."
Psalms 119:101: " I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep"
Ecclesiastes 8:8: "man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither"
Isaiah 43:6: "to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far,"
Jeremiah 32:2: "Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet shut up in the court of the prison, which"
Jeremiah 32:3: "Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou"
Ezekiel 31:15: "the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all"
Daniel 9:24: "and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation"
Haggai 1:10: "Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth"
Haggai 1:10: "over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit."