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# כָּלֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3616

**failing** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

failing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3616/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּלֶה: adj. failing Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3616/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. failing with desire, longing, only fpl. וְעֵינֶיךָ רֹאוֹת וְכָלוֹת אֲלֵיהֶם Dt 28:32 while thine eyes look and fail longingly for them (cf. vb. כלה Qal 2 b, and כִּלָּיוֹן infr.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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: longing (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 28:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.32/#tree)

בָּנֶ֨יךָ וּבְנֹתֶ֜יךָ נְתֻנִ֨ים לְעַ֤ם אַחֵר֙ וְעֵינֶ֣יךָ רֹא֔וֹת וְכָל֥וֹת אֲלֵיהֶ֖ם כָּל־הַיּ֑וֹם וְאֵ֥ין לְאֵ֖ל יָדֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* sons your and daughters your \[will.be\].given to a.people another and eyes your \[will.be\].looking and longing to them all the day and there.\[will\].not.\[be\] to the.power your.hand your

*JPS 1917:* Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day; and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3616.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3616/): 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).