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:
Daniel 11:36: "and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done."
Daniel 12:7: "that it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy"
Daniel 12:7: "of the holy people, all these things shall be finished."
Hosea 11:6: "And the sword shall abide and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels."
Amos 7:2: "And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said,"
Zechariah 5:4: "and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones"
Malachi 3:6: "sons of Jacob are not consumed."
