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:
2 Chronicles 24:10: "and cast into the chest, until they had made an end."
2 Chronicles 24:14: " And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada,"
2 Chronicles 29:17: "and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end."
2 Chronicles 29:28: "and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished."
2 Chronicles 29:29: " And when they had made an end of offering, and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshiped."
2 Chronicles 29:34: "did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for"
2 Chronicles 31:1: "Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities"
2 Chronicles 31:1: "Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children"
2 Chronicles 31:7: "to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month."
2 Chronicles 36:22: "of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit"
Ezra 1:1: "of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up"
Ezra 9:1: "Now when these things were done, came to me, saying, The people of Israel,"
Ezra 9:14: "wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?"
Ezra 10:17: " And they made an end with all that had taken strange wives by the first"
Nehemiah 4:2: "Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones"
Esther 7:7: "the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by"
Job 4:9: "of God and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed."
Job 7:6: "are swifter a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope."
Job 7:9: "As the cloud is consumed so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no"
Job 9:22: "I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked."
Job 11:20: "But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up"
Job 17:5: "even the eyes of his children shall fail."
Job 19:27: "and not another; though my reins be consumed within"
Job 21:13: " They spend their days and in a moment go down to the grave."
Job 31:16: "from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;"
Job 33:21: "His flesh is consumed away, and his bones that were not seen stick out."
Job 36:11: "If they obey him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures."
Psalms 18:37: "them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed."
Psalms 31:10: "For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth"
Psalms 37:20: "of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away."
Psalms 37:20: "of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away."
Psalms 39:10: "thy stroke me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand."
Psalms 59:13: " Consume them in wrath, them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth"
Psalms 59:13: "Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth"
Psalms 69:3: "is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God."
Psalms 71:9: "forsake me not when my strength faileth."
Psalms 71:13: "Let them be confounded and consumed to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek"
Psalms 72:20: "of David of Jesse are ended."
Psalms 73:26: "My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever."
Psalms 74:11: "withdrawest even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom."
Psalms 78:33: "Therefore their days did he consume and their years in trouble."
Psalms 84:2: "My soul longeth, fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh"
Psalms 90:7: "For we are consumed and by thy wrath are we troubled."
Psalms 90:9: "are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale"
Psalms 102:3: "For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth."
Psalms 119:81: "My soul fainteth but I hope in thy word."
Psalms 119:82: "Mine eyes fail saying, When wilt thou comfort"
Psalms 119:87: "They had almost consumed but I forsook not thy precepts."
Psalms 119:123: "Mine eyes fail and for the word of thy righteousness."
Psalms 143:7: "me speedily, my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from"
