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# כָּלִיל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3632

**entire** — used 15 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

entire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3632/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּלִיל: adj. subst. entire, whole, holocaust adj. subst. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3632/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. and subst. entire, whole, holocaust, cstr. כְּלִיל, fem. constr. כְּלִילַת:— adj. Ez 16:14 (of Jerus.) the report בְּיָפְיֵךְ כִּי כָּלִיל הוּא, 28:12 כְּלִיל יֹֽפִי׃ (of the king of Tyre) entire, perfect in beauty; 27:3 אֲנִי כְּלִילַת יֹֽפִי׃ (of Tyre), La 2:15 (of Jerus.) הֲזֹאת הָעִיר שֶׁיֹּאמְרוּ כְּלִילַת יֹפִי. subst. entirety, whole, Ex 28:31 thou shalt make the robe of the ephod כְּלִיל תְּכֵלֶת a whole of purple (i.e. wholly purple); so 39:22; Nu 4:6 בֶּגֶד כְּלִיל תְּכֵלֶת; Ju 20:40 והנה עלה כְּלִיל־הָעִיר השׁמימה the whole of the city (perhaps with allusion to meaning b); as adv. acc., Is 2:18 וְהָאֱלִילִים כָּלִיל יַחֲלֹף will pass away in entirety, wholly. as a sacrif. term, entire- or whole-offering, holocaust, of a sacrifice consumed wholly on the altar (cf. Ph. כלל CISI, i, 165, 167; RSRel. Sem. 237), usually a descriptive syn. of עוֹלָה: Dt 33:10 יָשִׂימוּ קְטוֹרָה בְּאַפֶּ֔ךָ וְכָלִיל עַל מִזְבְּחֶֽךָ׃, ψ 51:21 אז תחפץ זבחי צדק עוֹלָה וְכָלִיל, in app. 1 S 7:9 ויעלה עוֹלָה כָּלִיל ליהוה; of the priests’ מִנְחָה, Lv 6:15 ליהוה כָּלִיל תָּקְטָֽר, v 16 וְכָל־מִנְחַת כֹּהֵן כָּלִיל תִּהְיֶה לֹא תֵאָכֵל; fig. Dt 13:17 (of idol. city) ושׂרפת באשׁ את־העיר ואת־כל שׁללהּ כָּלִיל לי׳ אלהיך and thou shalt burn the city and all its spoil as a whole-offering to י׳.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a whole offering (4); an entirety (2); perfect (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 2:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.2.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.2.18/#tree)

וְהָאֱלִילִ֖ים כָּלִ֥יל יַחֲלֹֽף׃

*Word for word:* and the idols entirely it.will.pass.away

*JPS 1917:* And the idols shall utterly pass away.

[Exodus 28:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.31/#tree)

וְעָשִׂ֛יתָ אֶת־מְעִ֥יל הָאֵפ֖וֹד כְּלִ֥יל תְּכֵֽלֶת׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make (et) the.robe of the.ephod an.entirety of.violet.stuff

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3632.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3632/): 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).