Strong's #3615: kalah (pronounced 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, X fully, X have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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kâlâh
1) to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be complete, be at an end
1a2) to be completed, be finished
1a3) to be accomplished, be fulfilled
1a4) to be determined, be plotted (bad sense)
1a5) to be spent, be used up
1a6) to waste away, be exhausted, fail
1a7) to come to an end, vanish, perish, be destroyed
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to complete, bring to an end, finish
1b2) to complete (a period of time)
1b3) to finish (doing a thing)
1b4) to make an end, end
1b5) to accomplish, fulfil, bring to pass
1b6) to accomplish, determine (in thought)
1b7) to put an end to, cause to cease
1b8) to cause to fail, exhaust, use up, spend
1b9) to destroy, exterminate
1c) (Pual) to be finished, be ended, be completed
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 982, 983, 984
Usage:
This word is used 207 times:
Joshua 24:20: "gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good."
Judges 3:18: "And when he had made an end the present, he sent away the people"
Judges 15:17: "And it came to pass, when he had made an end that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called"
Ruth 2:21: "my young men, until they have ended all my"
Ruth 2:23: "to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest;"
Ruth 3:3: "but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking."
Ruth 3:18: "the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day."
1 Samuel 2:33: "from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve"
1 Samuel 3:12: "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, to the high place."
1 Samuel 13:10: "And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul"
1 Samuel 15:18: "the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed."
1 Samuel 18:1: "And it came to pass, when he had made an end unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit"
1 Samuel 20:7: "he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by"
1 Samuel 20:9: "I knew certainly that evil were determined by my father"
1 Samuel 20:33: "knew that it was determined of his father to slay"
1 Samuel 24:16: "And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto"
1 Samuel 25:17: "thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all"
2 Samuel 6:18: "And as soon as David had made an end burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed"
2 Samuel 11:19: "saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto"
2 Samuel 13:36: "And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end that, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up"
2 Samuel 13:39: "And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted"
2 Samuel 21:5: "And they answered the king, that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed"
2 Samuel 22:38: "them; and turned not again until I had consumed"
2 Samuel 22:39: " And I have consumed them, and wounded arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet."
1 Kings 1:41: "were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard"
1 Kings 3:1: "the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house"
1 Kings 6:9: "So he built and finished it; and covered the house with beams"
1 Kings 6:14: "built the house, and finished"
1 Kings 6:38: "which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all"
1 Kings 7:1: "thirteen years, and he finished all his house."
1 Kings 7:40: "and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work"
1 Kings 8:54: "And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer"
1 Kings 9:1: "And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's"
1 Kings 17:14: "The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail,"
1 Kings 17:16: "And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail,"
1 Kings 22:11: "the Syrians, until thou have consumed"
2 Kings 10:25: "And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains,"
2 Kings 13:17: "the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed"
2 Kings 13:19: "Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria"
1 Chronicles 16:2: "And when David had made an end the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed"
1 Chronicles 27:24: "began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it"
1 Chronicles 28:20: "thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house"
2 Chronicles 4:11: "and the shovels, and the basins. And Huram finished the work that"
2 Chronicles 7:1: "Now when Solomon had made an end the fire came down from heaven, and consumed"
2 Chronicles 7:11: "Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and all"
2 Chronicles 8:8: "whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute"
2 Chronicles 8:16: "of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected."
2 Chronicles 18:10: "Syria until they be consumed."
2 Chronicles 20:23: "Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped"
