H3615: כָּלָה
kâlâh · pronounced kaw-law' · “to end: finish”
Definition
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
KJV translates it as: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, [idiom] fully, [idiom] have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
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
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H3615 is translated
- them ×14
- he finished ×13
- he ×10
- finished ×10
- they finished ×6
- you ×6
- it ×5
- had finished ×5
- make an end ×5
- they will come to an end ×5
- he had finished ×4
- they ×4
Bible verses with H3615 (kâlâh)
Kâlâh appears in 202 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
- Genesis 2:2
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
- Genesis 6:16
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
- Genesis 17:22
And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
- Genesis 18:33
And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
- Genesis 21:15
And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
- Genesis 24:15
And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
- Genesis 24:19
And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
- Genesis 24:22
And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
- Genesis 24:45
And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.
- Genesis 27:30
And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
- Genesis 41:30
And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
- Genesis 41:53
And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
- Genesis 43:2
And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
- Genesis 44:12
And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
- Genesis 49:33
And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
- Exodus 5:13
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
- Exodus 5:14
And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
- Exodus 31:18
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
- Exodus 32:10
Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
- Exodus 32:12
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
- Exodus 33:3
Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
- Exodus 33:5
For the Lord had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
- Exodus 34:33
And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.
- Exodus 39:32
Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did they.
All 202 references
- Exodus 40:33
- Leviticus 16:20
- Leviticus 19:9
- Leviticus 23:22
- Leviticus 26:16
- Leviticus 26:44
- Numbers 4:15
- Numbers 7:1
- Numbers 16:21
- Numbers 16:31
- Numbers 16:45
- Numbers 17:10
- Numbers 25:11
- Deuteronomy 7:22
- Deuteronomy 20:9
- Deuteronomy 26:12
- Deuteronomy 28:21
- Deuteronomy 31:24
- Deuteronomy 32:23
- Deuteronomy 32:45
- Joshua 8:24
- Joshua 10:20
- Joshua 19:49
- Joshua 19:51
- Joshua 24:20
- Judges 3:18
- Judges 15:17
- Ruth 2:21
- Ruth 2:23
- Ruth 3:3
- Ruth 3:18
- 1 Samuel 2:33
- 1 Samuel 3:12
- 1 Samuel 10:13
- 1 Samuel 13:10
- 1 Samuel 15:18
- 1 Samuel 18:1
- 1 Samuel 20:7
- 1 Samuel 20:9
- 1 Samuel 20:33
- 1 Samuel 24:16
- 1 Samuel 25:17
- 2 Samuel 6:18
- 2 Samuel 11:19
- 2 Samuel 13:36
- 2 Samuel 13:39
- 2 Samuel 21:5
- 2 Samuel 22:38
- 2 Samuel 22:39
- 1 Kings 1:41
- 1 Kings 3:1
- 1 Kings 6:9
- 1 Kings 6:14
- 1 Kings 6:38
- 1 Kings 7:1
- 1 Kings 7:40
- 1 Kings 8:54
- 1 Kings 9:1
- 1 Kings 17:14
- 1 Kings 17:16
- 1 Kings 22:11
- 2 Kings 10:25
- 2 Kings 13:17
- 2 Kings 13:19
- 1 Chronicles 16:2
- 1 Chronicles 27:24
- 1 Chronicles 28:20
- 2 Chronicles 4:11
- 2 Chronicles 7:1
- 2 Chronicles 7:11
- 2 Chronicles 8:8
- 2 Chronicles 8:16
- 2 Chronicles 18:10
- 2 Chronicles 20:23
- 2 Chronicles 24:10
- 2 Chronicles 24:14
- 2 Chronicles 29:17
- 2 Chronicles 29:28
- 2 Chronicles 29:29
- 2 Chronicles 29:34
- 2 Chronicles 31:1
- 2 Chronicles 31:7
- 2 Chronicles 36:22
- Ezra 1:1
- Ezra 9:1
- Ezra 9:14
- Ezra 10:17
- Nehemiah 4:2
- Esther 7:7
- Job 4:9
- Job 7:6
- Job 7:9
- Job 9:22
- Job 11:20
- Job 17:5
- Job 19:27
- Job 21:13
- Job 31:16
- Job 33:21
- Job 36:11
- Psalms 18:37
- Psalms 31:10
- Psalms 37:20
- Psalms 39:10
- Psalms 59:13
- Psalms 69:3
- Psalms 71:9
- Psalms 71:13
- Psalms 72:20
- Psalms 73:26
- Psalms 74:11
- Psalms 78:33
- Psalms 84:2
- Psalms 90:7
- Psalms 90:9
- Psalms 102:3
- Psalms 119:81
- Psalms 119:82
- Psalms 119:87
- Psalms 119:123
- Psalms 143:7
- Proverbs 5:11
- Proverbs 16:30
- Proverbs 22:8
- Isaiah 1:28
- Isaiah 10:18
- Isaiah 10:25
- Isaiah 15:6
- Isaiah 16:4
- Isaiah 21:16
- Isaiah 24:13
- Isaiah 27:10
- Isaiah 29:20
- Isaiah 31:3
- Isaiah 32:10
- Isaiah 49:4
- Jeremiah 5:3
- Jeremiah 8:20
- Jeremiah 9:16
- Jeremiah 10:25
- Jeremiah 14:6
- Jeremiah 14:12
- Jeremiah 16:4
- Jeremiah 20:18
- Jeremiah 26:8
- Jeremiah 43:1
- Jeremiah 44:27
- Jeremiah 49:37
- Jeremiah 51:63
- Lamentations 2:11
- Lamentations 2:22
- Lamentations 3:22
- Lamentations 4:11
- Lamentations 4:17
- Ezekiel 4:6
- Ezekiel 4:8
- Ezekiel 5:12
- Ezekiel 5:13
- Ezekiel 6:12
- Ezekiel 7:8
- Ezekiel 13:14
- Ezekiel 13:15
- Ezekiel 20:8
- Ezekiel 20:13
- Ezekiel 20:21
- Ezekiel 22:31
- Ezekiel 42:15
- Ezekiel 43:8
- Ezekiel 43:23
- Ezekiel 43:27
- Daniel 9:24
- Daniel 11:36
- Daniel 12:7
- Hosea 11:6
- Amos 7:2
- Zechariah 5:4
- Malachi 3:6