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# קָלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7033

**roast** — used 4 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

roast [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7033/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָלָה: vb. roast, parch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7033/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. roast, parch (NH קָלָה id. (rare), קָלִי = BH; Assyrian ḳalû, ii. i, iii. i burn, consume MeissnSuppl. 84; Sab. קלאתם conflagratio, aestus Os4. 1. 19. 20 CIS iv. No. 74, 1, 20; Arabic قَلَى fry or roast wheat; Ethiopic ቀለወ: ቀለየ: burn, fry, so 𝔗 קְלָא, Syriac ܩܠܴܐ );— Pf. 3 ms. sf. קָלָם בָּאֵשׁ Je 29:22 (acc. pers.) he roasted them with fire; Pt. pass. אָבִיב קָלוּי בָּאֵשׁ Lv 2:14 (P) grian parched with fire; so קָלוּי alone, as common food, Jos 5:11 (P), v. קָלִי. Pt. נִקְלֶה as n. ψ 38:8 my loins are filled with burning (Vrss Bae with contempt, II. קלה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: burning \[pain\] (1); he (1); roasted (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 38:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.8/#tree)

כִּֽי־כְ֭סָלַי מָלְא֣וּ נִקְלֶ֑ה וְאֵ֥ין מְ֝תֹ֗ם בִּבְשָׂרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* (dm) loins my they.are.full burning.\[pain\] and there.\[is\].not soundness in flesh my

*JPS 1917:* For my loins are filled with burning; and there is no soundness in my flesh.

[Leviticus 2:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.2.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.2.14/#tree)

וְאִם־תַּקְרִ֛יב מִנְחַ֥ת בִּכּוּרִ֖ים לַיהוָ֑ה אָבִ֞יב קָל֤וּי בָּאֵשׁ֙ גֶּ֣רֶשׂ כַּרְמֶ֔ל תַּקְרִ֕יב אֵ֖ת מִנְחַ֥ת בִּכּוּרֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* and if you.will.present a.grain.offering of.first-fruits to Yahweh young.barley.ear\[s\] roasted in the fire groats of.new.corn you.will.present (et) the.grain.offering your.first-fruits your

*JPS 1917:* And if thou bring a meal-offering of first-fruits unto the LORD, thou shalt bring for the meal-offering of thy first-fruits corn in the ear parched with fire, even groats of the fresh ear.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7033.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7033/): 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).