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# כָּלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3617

**completion** — used 21 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

completion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3617/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּלָה²: n.f. completion, complete destruction, consumption, annihilation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3617/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. completion, complete destruction, consumption, annihilation; always this form;— completion, but only as adv., and dubious: completely, altogether Gn 18:21 (J; read כֻּלָּם Ol Kau Buhl), Ex 11:1 (si vera l.) complete destruction, consumption, annihilation: almost always by God, especially עָשָׂה כ׳ Is 10:23 (+ וְנֶחֱרָצָה), Na 1:8 (2 acc., si vera l.; Buhl ZAW 1885, 181 proposes בְּקָמָיו for מְקוֹמָהּ v. Id.HWB 12 KauAT, Text Krit. Erläut. p. 65; v. also מָקוֹם sub קום), v 9 Je 4:27 Ne 9:31 (2 acc.); + אֵת pers. = with, pergn. sense, = in dealing with (cf. II. אֵת 1 d), Zp 1:18 (כ׳ אַךְ נִבְהָלָה), Je 5:18; 30:11 = 46:28 (אֹתְךָ = אִתְּךָ), Ez 11:13; 20:17 (אוֹתָם = אִתָּם); + בְּכָל־גּוֹיִם Je 30:11; 46:28; without עשׂה: כ׳ וְנֶחֱרָצָה שָׁמַעְתִּי Is 28:22, עַד־כ׳ וְנ׳ Dn 9:27 (on both cf. Is 10:23; Zp 1:18); לְכָלָה for annihilation Ez 13:13 (si vera l., v. Co), וְלֹא לְהַשְׁחִית לְכ׳ 2 Ch 12:12. by men, וְכ׳ אַל־תַּעֲשׂוּ Je 5:10; וְכ׳ בְיָדוֹ Dn 11:16 and (i.e. with) annihilation in his hand.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: complete destruction (19); completely (2).

## In the verses

[Nahum 1:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.9/#tree)

מַה־תְּחַשְּׁבוּן֙ אֶל־יְהוָ֔ה כָּלָ֖ה ה֣וּא עֹשֶׂ֑ה לֹֽא־תָק֥וּם פַּעֲמַ֖יִם צָרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* whatever you will.plot against Yahweh complete.destruction he \[will.be\].making not it.will.arise two.times trouble

*JPS 1917:* What do ye devise against the LORD? He will make a full end; trouble shall not rise up the second time.

[Jeremiah 4:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.27/#tree)

כִּי־כֹה֙ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה שְׁמָמָ֥ה תִהְיֶ֖ה כָּל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וְכָלָ֖ה לֹ֥א אֶעֱשֶֽׂה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) thus he.says Yahweh a.desolation it.will.be all the earth and complete.destruction not I.will.make

*JPS 1917:* For thus saith the LORD: The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3617.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3617/): 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).