כָּלָה
kâlâh · kaw-law'
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, [idiom] fully, [idiom] have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
Letters
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the open hand that covers › authority, the one who leads › to reveal, behold
The open hand that covers of authority, the one who leads that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of כָּלָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
208 occurrences · 208 OT · 0 NT · 163 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- had made an end12 · 16%
- shall fail5 · 7%
- finished5 · 7%
- fail4 · 5%
- faileth4 · 5%
- when thou hast made an end3 · 4%
- and shall consume3 · 4%
- and consume3 · 4%
- and finished3 · 4%
- consumed3 · 4%
- and when he had made an end2 · 3%
- that i may consume2 · 3%
- have made an end2 · 3%
- and it came to pass, when he had made an end2 · 3%
- had done2 · 3%
- be accomplished2 · 3%
- them, till i have consumed2 · 3%
- are consumed2 · 3%
- consume2 · 3%
- is consumed2 · 3%
- and it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end2 · 3%
- thus will i accomplish2 · 3%
- is determined2 · 3%
- upon them, to accomplish2 · 3%
- were finished1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.