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# כַּלָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3618

**daughter-in-law** — used 34 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

daughter-in-law [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3618/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כַּלָּה²: n.f. daughter-in-law, bride [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3618/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. daughter-in-law, bride;—abs. כ׳ Je 2:32 + 14 times sf. כַּלָּתוֹ Gn 11:31 + 5 times; כַּלָּתָהּ Ru 1:22 + 2 times, etc.; pl. sf. כַּלֹּתֶיהָ Ru 1:6–8, כַּלּוֹתֶיהָ 1:7, כַלּוֹתֵיכֶם Ho 4:13, 14;— daughter-in-law, in ref. to husband’s father Gn 38:11, 16; 24 (J), cf. 1 Ch 2:4 1 S 4:19; Ez 22:11; Mi 7:6; Gn 11:31 (P), Lv 18:15; 20:12 (both H); husband’s mother Ru 1:6, 7, 8, 22; 2:20, 22; 4:15. bride, usually just before marriage Is 49:18; 61:10; 62:5; Je 2:32 (all in sim., etc.), ‖ חָתָן 7:34; 16:9; 25:10; 33:11; Jo 2:16; Ct 4:8, 9, 10, 11, 12; 5:1. also just after marriage = young wife Ho 4:13, 14; read הַכַּלָּה likewise 2 S 17:3 (for MT הַכֹּל), 𝔊 We Dr Klo Kit Bu.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 34 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: daughter-in-law (12); bride (7); of a bride (4).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 4:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.12/#tree)

גַּ֥ן ׀ נָע֖וּל אֲחֹתִ֣י כַלָּ֑ה גַּ֥ל נָע֖וּל מַעְיָ֥ן חָתֽוּם׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.garden locked sister my bride a.spring locked a.spring sealed.up

*JPS 1917:* A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

[Leviticus 18:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.15/#tree)

עֶרְוַ֥ת כַּלָּֽתְךָ֖ לֹ֣א תְגַלֵּ֑ה אֵ֤שֶׁת בִּנְךָ֙ הִ֔וא לֹ֥א תְגַלֶּ֖ה עֶרְוָתָֽהּ׃ס

*Word for word:* the.nakedness your.daughter-in-law your not you.will.uncover \[is\].the.wife your.son your she not you.will.uncover nakedness her

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law: she is thy son' wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3618.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3618/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).