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:
Proverbs 5:11: "at the last, and thy body are consumed,"
Proverbs 16:30: "froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass."
Proverbs 22:8: "vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail."
Isaiah 1:28: "shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed."
Isaiah 10:18: " And shall consume the glory and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be"
Isaiah 10:25: "little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction."
Isaiah 15:6: "the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing."
Isaiah 16:4: "for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of"
Isaiah 21:16: "and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:"
Isaiah 24:13: "and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done."
Isaiah 27:10: "feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches"
Isaiah 29:20: "the terrible one and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:"
Isaiah 31:3: "and he that is helped shall fall down, and they all shall fail together."
Isaiah 32:10: "ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come."
Isaiah 49:4: "said, in vain, I have spent my strength for naught, and in vain: yet surely"
Jeremiah 5:3: "thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces"
Jeremiah 8:20: "The harvest is past, is ended, and we are not saved."
Jeremiah 9:16: "a sword after them, till I have consumed"
Jeremiah 10:25: "Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate."
Jeremiah 14:6: "the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass."
Jeremiah 14:12: "I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence."
Jeremiah 16:4: "the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcasses shall be meat"
Jeremiah 20:18: "to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?"
Jeremiah 26:8: "Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD"
Jeremiah 43:1: "And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people"
Jeremiah 44:27: "by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end"
Jeremiah 49:37: "the sword after them, till I have consumed"
Jeremiah 51:63: "And it shall be, when thou hast made an end this book, that thou shalt bind a stone"
Lamentations 2:11: "Mine eyes do fail my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth,"
Lamentations 2:22: "nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed."
Lamentations 3:22: "consumed, because his compassions fail not."
Lamentations 4:11: "The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled"
Lamentations 4:17: "As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched"
Ezekiel 4:6: " And when thou hast accomplished lie again on thy right side,"
Ezekiel 4:8: "thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege."
Ezekiel 5:12: "of thee shall die and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword"
Ezekiel 5:13: "Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I"
Ezekiel 5:13: "the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury"
Ezekiel 6:12: "and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury"
Ezekiel 7:8: "will I shortly my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways,"
Ezekiel 13:14: "so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I"
Ezekiel 13:15: " Thus will I accomplish upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered mortar, and will say unto you, The wall"
Ezekiel 20:8: "I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt."
Ezekiel 20:13: "I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume"
Ezekiel 20:21: "then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness."
Ezekiel 22:31: "Therefore have I poured out mine indignation them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed"
Ezekiel 42:15: " Now when he had made an end of the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate"
Ezekiel 43:23: " When thou hast made an end of cleansing a young bullock without blemish,"
Ezekiel 43:27: "And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests"
Daniel 11:16: "in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed."