Hebrew noun (feminine) · H3617
כָּלָה
kalahkaw-law'
consumption
21 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kâlâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3617is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3617
a completion; adverb, completely; also destruction
The King James renders it: altogether, (be, utterly) consume(-d), consummation(-ption), was determined, (full, utter) end, riddance.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kalah is rendered "consumption". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 18:21I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”
Genesis 18:21כָּלָ֑ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's twenty-one uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- complete destruction14
- and complete destruction3
- completely1
- completion1
- for complete destruction1
- to complete destruction1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כָּלָה | kalah | to end: finish | Uses208 |
| כָּלַם | kalam | be humiliated | Uses38 |
| כָּלָא | kala | to restrain | Uses17 |
| כָּלִיל | kalil | entire | Uses15 |
| כָּלַל | kalal | to perfect | Uses2 |
| כָּלֶה | kaleh | longing | Uses1 |
| כָּלִבּוֹ | Kalibbo | Calebite | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 21, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- כָּלָ֖ה4
- וְכָלָ֖ה2
- כָלָ֜ה2
- כָלָ֔ה2
- כָּלָה֙2
- וְכָלָ֥ה1
- כָלָ֖ה1
- כָלָ֨ה1
- כָלָ֤ה1
- כָּלָ֑ה1
- כָּלָ֕ה1
- כָּלָֽה׃1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular16HNcfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular3HC/Ncfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular2HR/Ncfsa
Genesis
one use
I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”
- כָּלָ֑הkalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: completion
Exodus
one use
Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will bring upon Pharaoh and Egypt one more plague. After that, he will allow you to leave this place. And when he lets you go, he will drive you out completely.
- כָּלָ֕הkalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: completely
2 Chronicles
one use
Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned away from him, and He did not destroy him completely. Indeed, conditions were good in Judah.
- לְכָלָ֑הlekhalahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to complete destruction
Nehemiah
one use
But in Your great compassion, You did not put an end to them; nor did You forsake them, for You are a gracious and compassionate God.
- כָּלָ֖הkalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: complete destruction
Isaiah
two uses
For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land.
- כָלָ֖הkhalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: complete destruction
So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.
- כָלָ֨הkhalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: complete destruction
Jeremiah
seven uses
For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.
- וְכָלָ֖הvekhalahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and complete destruction
Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.
- וְכָלָ֖הvekhalahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and complete destruction
“Yet even in those days,” declares the LORD, “I will not make a full end of you.
- כָּלָֽה׃kalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: complete destruction
For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
- כָלָ֜הkhalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: complete destruction
- כָלָ֔הkhalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: complete destruction
And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
- כָלָ֜הkhalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: complete destruction
- כָלָ֔הkhalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: complete destruction
Ezekiel
three uses
Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, “Oh, Lord GOD, will You bring the remnant of Israel to a complete end?”
- כָּלָה֙kalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: complete destruction
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: In My wrath I will release a windstorm, and in My anger torrents of rain and hail will fall with destructive fury.
- לְכָלָֽה׃lekhalahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: for complete destruction
Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.
- כָּלָ֖הkalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: complete destruction
Daniel
two uses
And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”
- כָּלָה֙kalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: complete destruction
The invader will do as he pleases, and no one will stand against him. He will establish himself in the Beautiful Land, with destruction in his hand.
- וְכָלָ֥הvekhalahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and complete destruction
Nahum
two uses
But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.
- כָּלָ֖הkalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: complete destruction
Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
- כָּלָ֖הkalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: complete destruction
Zephaniah
one use
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.
- כָלָ֤הkhalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: complete destruction
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.