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# כֶּלַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3625

**Calah** — used 2 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

Calah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3625/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֶּ֫לַח²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3625/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city in Assyria Gn 10:11, 12 = Assyrian Kalḫu, SchrCOT ad loc. DlPar 261, mod. Nimrûd, at NE. angle of Upper Zab and Tigris (v. Billerbeck u. Jeremias BASiii. 1895, 130 ff.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Calah (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 10:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.12/#tree)

וְֽאֶת־רֶ֔סֶן בֵּ֥ין נִֽינְוֵ֖ה וּבֵ֣ין כָּ֑לַח הִ֖וא הָעִ֥יר הַגְּדֹלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Resen between Nineveh and between Calah that \[is\].the city (the) great

*JPS 1917:* and Resen between Nineveh and Calah — the same is the great city.

[Genesis 10:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.11/#tree)

מִן־הָאָ֥רֶץ הַהִ֖וא יָצָ֣א אַשּׁ֑וּר וַיִּ֙בֶן֙ אֶת־נִ֣ינְוֵ֔ה וְאֶת־רְחֹבֹ֥ת עִ֖יר רְחֹבֹ֥ת עִ֖יר וְאֶת־כָּֽלַח׃

*Word for word:* from the land (the) that he.went.forth Assyria and he.built (et) Nineveh and (et) Rehoboth-Ir and (et) Calah

*JPS 1917:* Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3625.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3625/): 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).