כָּלָה kalah

Hebrew word for “to end” · Strong’s H3615 · used 208 times in 202 verses

Old Testament29 booksMost often in Psalms (23)

Meaning

: finish; 1) to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent;

Senses in the lexicon

to end: finish (105)
to end: destroy (54)
to end: expend (39)
to end: decides (10)

How it is translated

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

finished 28
complete 10
make an end 9
had finished 8
when finished he 7
will come to an end 7
will finish 6
when had finished 5
have come to an end 5
exhausted 5
just as finished 4
will complete 4

Where it is used

Book	Uses	Per 1,000 words
Psalms	23	1.2
Genesis	17	0.8
2 Chronicles	17	1.3
Ezekiel	17	0.9
Jeremiah	13	0.6
1 Kings	12	0.9
Isaiah	12	0.7
1 Samuel	11	0.8
Job	11	1.3
Exodus	10	0.6
Numbers	7	0.4
Deuteronomy	7	0.5

Also in 17 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 24 (4), 2 Chronicles 29 (4), Psalms 119 (4), Numbers 16 (3), 1 Samuel 20 (3), 1 Kings 6 (3), Ezekiel 20 (3), Ezekiel 43 (3), Genesis 2 (2), Genesis 41 (2)

Forms

כלה 26
כלו 20
ויכל 14
וכלה 11
ככלות 9
ויכלו 8
כלתה 8
ככלתו 7
לכלות 7
יכלו 7

Words used with it

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

Key verses

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

Leviticus 26:16 — I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart:…
Ezra 9:1 — Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the…
Job 31:16 — If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Jeremiah 5:3 — O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive…
Jeremiah 16:4 — They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they…
Lamentations 2:11 — Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children…
Ezekiel 5:12 — A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round…
Ezekiel 5:13 — Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it…
Ezekiel 20:13 — But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even…
Daniel 9:24 — Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for…
Daniel 11:36 — And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God…
Malachi 3:6 — For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

See all 202 verses in the Word Atlas

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.