כָּלָא kala

Hebrew word for “to restrain” · Strong’s H3607 · used 17 times in 16 verses

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Meaning

1) to restrict, restrain, withhold, shut up, keep back, refrain, forbid;

How it is translated

Glosses given for kala in context, with how often each is used:

• restrained 3
• restrain 3
• shut up 3
• will withhold 2
• have restrained 2
• withhold 1
• had shut up 1
• have withheld 1
• has withheld 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Psalms 40 (2), Jeremiah 32 (2), Genesis 8 (1), Genesis 23 (1), Exodus 36 (1), Numbers 11 (1), 1 Samuel 6 (1), 1 Samuel 25 (1), Psalms 88 (1), Psalms 119 (1)

Forms

• ויכלא 2
• כלאו 2
• יכלה 1
• כלאם 1
• כלו 1
• כלתני 1
• אכלא 1
• תכלא 1
• כלא 1
• כלאתי 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with kala more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אַתָּה attah “you(m.s.)” 5
• תְּהוֹם tehom “abyss” 2
• מִן־ min “from” 4
• בָּבֶל bavel “Babylon” 2
• אָדוֹן adon “lord” 2
• שָׁמַיִם shamayim “heaven” 2
• רַב rav “many” 2
• כֹּה koh “thus” 2
• אַל al “not” 2
• מֹשֶׁה mosheh “Moses” 2
• כֵּן ken “so” 2
• יְהוּדָה yehudah “Judah” 2

Key verses

The verses using kala that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 23:6 — Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that…
• Numbers 11:28 — And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
• 1 Samuel 25:33 — And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
• Psalms 40:9 — I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
• Psalms 40:11 — Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
• Psalms 88:8 — Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
• Psalms 119:101 — I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
• Ecclesiastes 8:8 — There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither…
• Isaiah 43:6 — I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
• Jeremiah 32:2 — For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.
• Jeremiah 32:3 — For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of…
• Haggai 1:10 — Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.