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# קָלָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7044

**burnished** — 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

burnished [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7044/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָלָל: adj. burnished [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7044/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. burnished (from light, quick movement of rubbing?);—נְחשֶׁת ק׳ burnished brass Ez 1:7; Dn 10:6 (so most; Co, Ez, קַלּוֹת, in prefixing כַּנְפֵיהֶם from v 8; Dn then follows crpt. Ez.

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: burnished (2).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 1:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.1.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.1.7/#tree)

וְרַגְלֵיהֶ֖ם רֶ֣גֶל יְשָׁרָ֑ה וְכַ֣ף רַגְלֵיהֶ֗ם כְּכַף֙ רֶ֣גֶל עֵ֔גֶל וְנֹ֣צְצִ֔ים כְּעֵ֖ין נְחֹ֥שֶׁת קָלָֽל׃

*Word for word:* and feet their \[was\].a.foot straight and the.sole their.feet their \[was\].like.\[the\] sole of.\[the\].foot of.a.calf and \[they.were\].sparkling like.\[the\] appearance of.bronze burnished

*JPS 1917:* And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.

[Daniel 10:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.10.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.10.6/#tree)

וּגְוִיָּת֣וֹ כְתַרְשִׁ֗ישׁ וּפָנָ֞יו כְּמַרְאֵ֤ה בָרָק֙ וְעֵינָיו֙ כְּלַפִּ֣ידֵי אֵ֔שׁ וּזְרֹֽעֹתָיו֙ וּמַרְגְּלֹתָ֔יו כְּעֵ֖ין נְחֹ֣שֶׁת קָלָ֑ל וְק֥וֹל דְּבָרָ֖יו כְּק֥וֹל הָמֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and body his \[was\].like chrysolite and face his \[was\].like.\[the\] appearance of.lightning and eyes his \[were\].like torches of.fire and arms his and feet his \[were\].like.\[the\] appearance of.bronze burnished and the.sound his.words his \[was\].like the.sound of.a.multitude

*JPS 1917:* his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as torches of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to burnished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7044.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7044/): 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).