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# כֶּלַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3624

**firm strength** — 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

firm strength [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3624/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֶּ֫לַח: n.m. firm rugged strength [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3624/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. poss. firm or rugged strength (v. √ supr.), תָּבוֹא בְכ׳ אֱלֵי־קָ֑בֶר Jb 5:26 thou shalt come in firm strength (with thy body vigorous, powers unimpaired) unto the grave; עָלֵימוֹ אָבַד כָּ֑לַח 30:2 upon whom vigour has perished.

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

## In the verses

[Job 5:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.26/#tree)

תָּב֣וֹא בְכֶ֣לַח אֱלֵי־קָ֑בֶר כַּעֲל֖וֹת גָּדִ֣ישׁ בְּעִתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* you.will.go in full.strength to \[the\].grave as goes.up a.stack.of.sheaves at its.appropriate time

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt come to thy grave in a ripe age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.

[Job 30:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.2/#tree)

גַּם־כֹּ֣חַ יְ֭דֵיהֶם לָ֣מָּה לִּ֑י עָ֝לֵ֗ימוֹ אָ֣בַד כָּֽלַח׃

*Word for word:* also the.strength their.hands their why? to me on them it.had.perished vigor

*JPS 1917:* Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3624.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3624/): 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).