כָּלָה
ka.lah
to end: finish
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "ka.lah" (H3615G) is a verb that means "to end" or "finish." It is used 105 times in the Bible, indicating its significance in various contexts. In terms of meaning, "ka.lah" can refer to the completion of a task, the termination of a period of time, or the culmination of an event. The range of usage for "ka.lah" is quite broad, encompassing various aspects of life, including physical, emotional, and spiritual experiences. It is used to describe the end of a person's life (e.g., 1 Kings 2:6), the completion of a project (e.g., 1 Kings 7:40), and the termination of a period of time (e.g., Genesis 8:3). This versatility suggests that "ka.lah" is a fundamental concept in Hebrew thought, reflecting the importance of completion, fulfillment, and conclusion in everyday life. The significance of "ka.lah" lies in its ability to convey a sense of finality and completion, which is essential for human understanding and experience. By acknowledging the end of something, individuals can reflect on their accomplishments, learn from their mistakes, and move forward with renewed purpose and direction. In this sense, "ka.lah" is not just a word, but a concept that shapes our perception of time, our understanding of ourselves, and our place in the world.
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Occurrences in Scripture
105 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. When they had finished the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy each other.
2 Chronicles 24:10All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it.
2 Chronicles 24:14When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for Yahweh’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in Yahweh’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada.
2 Chronicles 29:17Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to Yahweh’s porch. They sanctified Yahweh’s house in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.
2 Chronicles 29:28All the assembly worshiped, the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
2 Chronicles 29:29When they had finished offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.
2 Chronicles 29:34But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings. Therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
2 Chronicles 31:1Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
2 Chronicles 31:7In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
Ezra 9:1Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Ezra 10:17They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
Nehemiah 4:2He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 21:13They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
Job 36:11If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Psalms 119:87They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.
Psalms 72:20This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse.
Psalms 90:7For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
Psalms 90:9For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
Psalms 143:7Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.
Isaiah 10:25For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”
Isaiah 16:4Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Isaiah 21:16For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
Isaiah 24:13For it will be so within the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.
Isaiah 29:20For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—
Deuteronomy 20:9It shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.
Jeremiah 8:20“The harvest is past. The summer has ended, and we are not saved.”
Joshua 10:20When Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,
Jeremiah 26:8When Jeremiah had finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You shall surely die!
Jeremiah 43:1When Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which Yahweh their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
Jeremiah 51:63It will be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates.
Lamentations 3:22It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.
Ezekiel 4:6“Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have appointed forty days, each day for a year, to you.
Ezekiel 4:8Behold, I put ropes on you, and you shall not turn yourself from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.
Ezekiel 20:13“ ‘ “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Ezekiel 42:15Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate which faces toward the east, and measured it all around.
Ezekiel 43:23When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without defect, and a ram out of the flock without defect.
Ezekiel 43:27When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings. Then I will accept you,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
Daniel 9:24“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
Daniel 12:7I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it will be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have finished breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things will be finished.
Daniel 12:7I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it will be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have finished breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things will be finished.
Amos 7:2When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
Genesis 2:1The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.
Genesis 2:2On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.
Genesis 6:16You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
Genesis 17:22When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
Genesis 18:33Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
Genesis 24:15Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.
Genesis 24:19When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they have finished drinking.”
Genesis 24:19When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they have finished drinking.”