Hebrew verb · H7034
קָלָה
qalahkaw-law'
to dishonor
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: qâlâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7034is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7034
to be light (as implied in rapid motion), but figuratively, only (be (causatively, hold) in contempt)
The King James renders it: base, contemn, despise, lightly esteem, set light, seem vile.
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
qalah is rendered "to dishonor". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 25:3He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.
Deuteronomy 25:3וְנִקְלָ֥ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a lightly esteemed1
- and he will be dishonored1
- and it will be lightly esteemed1
- and lightly esteemed1
- and the lightly esteemed1
- dishonors1
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- וְהַנִּקְלֶ֖ה1
- וְנִקְלָ֥ה1
- וְנִקְלָה֙1
- וְנִקְלֶֽה׃1
- מַקְלֶ֥ה1
- נִ֭קְלֶה1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/VNq3ms2Hc/VNq3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular1HC/Td/VNrmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular1HC/VNrmsa
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular1HVhrmsa
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular1HVNrmsa
Deuteronomy
two uses
He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.
- וְנִקְלָ֥הveniklahHc/VNq3mstagged: and he will be dishonored
‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- מַקְלֶ֥הmaklehverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: dishonors
1 Samuel
one use
But when Saul’s servants relayed these words to David, he replied, “Does it seem trivial in your sight to be the son-in-law of the king? I am a poor man and lightly esteemed.”
- וְנִקְלֶֽה׃veniklehconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and lightly esteemed
Proverbs
one use
Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant, than to be self-important but lack food.
- נִ֭קְלֶהniklehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a lightly esteemed
Isaiah
two uses
The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, and the base against the honorable.
- וְהַנִּקְלֶ֖הvehaniklehconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and the lightly esteemed
And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”
- וְנִקְלָה֙veniklahHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be lightly esteemed
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 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.