קָלַל qalal

Hebrew word for “to lighten” · Strong’s H7043 · used 82 times in 79 verses

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Meaning

1) to be slight, be swift, be trifling, be of little account, be light;

How it is translated

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

• cursed 10
• curse 8
• lighten 8
• will curse 5
• cursing 4
• swift 3
• trifling 2
• have been swift 2
• insignificant 2
• trifling thing 2
• ¿ were they abated 1
• abated 1

Where it is used

Also in 10 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

2 Samuel 16 (6), Leviticus 24 (4), Genesis 8 (3), 1 Kings 12 (3), 2 Chronicles 10 (3), Genesis 16 (2), 2 Samuel 19 (2), Nehemiah 13 (2), Proverbs 30 (2), Ecclesiastes 7 (2)

Forms

• הקל 7
• יקלל 6
• קלו 5
• תקלל 5
• ויקלל 5
• קלל 3
• נקל 3
• הקלו 2
• לקלל 2
• ומקלל 2

Words used with it

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

• עֹל ol “yoke” 6
• אֵם em “mother” 8
• אָב av “father” 12
• כָּבֵד kavad “to honor” 6
• שִׁמְעִי shimi “Shimei” 5
• קָשָׁה qashah “to harden” 4
• יָצָא yatsa “to come out” 8
• אַתָּה attah “you(m.s.)” 8
• דָבַר davar “to speak” 8
• רָאָה raah “to see” 8
• דָּבָר davar “word” 8
• יָעַץ yaats “to advise” 4

Key verses

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

• Genesis 8:21 — And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s…
• Genesis 12:3 — And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
• Leviticus 24:11 — And the Israelitish woman’s son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother’s name was Shelomith, the…
• 1 Samuel 2:30 — Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be…
• 1 Kings 16:31 — And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of…
• Job 40:4 — Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
• Isaiah 8:21 — And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse…
• Isaiah 23:9 — The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
• Isaiah 49:6 — And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give…
• Jeremiah 15:10 — Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me…
• Ezekiel 8:17 — Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here?…
• Ezekiel 22:7 — In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless…

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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.