Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
KJV Usage: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when ... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, X fully, X have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
כָּלָה (ka.lah) — to end: finish. : finish 1) to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be complete, be at an end 1a2) to be completed, be finished 1a3) to be accomplished, be fulfilled 1a4) to be determined, be plotted (bad sense) 1a5) to be spent, be used up 1a6) to waste away, be exhausted, fail 1a7) to come to an end, vanish, perish, be destroyed 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to complete, bring to an end, finish 1b2) to complete (a period of time) 1b3) to finish (doing a thing) 1b4) to make an end, end 1b5) to accomplish, fulfil, bring to pass 1b6) to accomplish, determine (in thought) 1b7) to put an end to, cause to cease 1b8) to cause to fail, exhaust, use up, spend 1b9) to destroy, exterminate 1c) (Pual) to be finished, be ended, be completed
כָּלָה (ka.lah) — to end: destroy. : destroy 1) to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be complete, be at an end 1a2) to be completed, be finished 1a3) to be accomplished, be fulfilled 1a4) to be determined, be plotted (bad sense) 1a5) to be spent, be used up 1a6) to waste away, be exhausted, fail 1a7) to come to an end, vanish, perish, be destroyed 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to complete, bring to an end, finish 1b2) to complete (a period of time) 1b3) to finish (doing a thing) 1b4) to make an end, end 1b5) to accomplish, fulfil, bring to pass 1b6) to accomplish, determine (in thought) 1b7) to put an end to, cause to cease 1b8) to cause to fail, exhaust, use up, spend 1b9) to destroy, exterminate 1c) (Pual) to be finished, be ended, be completed
כָּלָה (ka.lah) — to end: decides. : decides/determines/longs 1) to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be complete, be at an end 1a2) to be completed, be finished 1a3) to be accomplished, be fulfilled 1a4) to be determined, be plotted (bad sense) 1a5) to be spent, be used up 1a6) to waste away, be exhausted, fail 1a7) to come to an end, vanish, perish, be destroyed 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to complete, bring to an end, finish 1b2) to complete (a period of time) 1b3) to finish (doing a thing) 1b4) to make an end, end 1b5) to accomplish, fulfil, bring to pass 1b6) to accomplish, determine (in thought) 1b7) to put an end to, cause to cease 1b8) to cause to fail, exhaust, use up, spend 1b9) to destroy, exterminate 1c) (Pual) to be finished, be ended, be completed
כָּלָה (ka.lah) — to end: expend. : expend/spend/empty/fail 1) to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be complete, be at an end 1a2) to be completed, be finished 1a3) to be accomplished, be fulfilled 1a4) to be determined, be plotted (bad sense) 1a5) to be spent, be used up 1a6) to waste away, be exhausted, fail 1a7) to come to an end, vanish, perish, be destroyed 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to complete, bring to an end, finish 1b2) to complete (a period of time) 1b3) to finish (doing a thing) 1b4) to make an end, end 1b5) to accomplish, fulfil, bring to pass 1b6) to accomplish, determine (in thought) 1b7) to put an end to, cause to cease 1b8) to cause to fail, exhaust, use up, spend 1b9) to destroy, exterminate 1c) (Pual) to be finished, be ended, be completed
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · כָּלֶה · כָּלָה · כִּלָּיֹון · מִכְלֹות · תִּכְלָה · תַּכְלִית · כִּלְיֹון
Complete | verb qal | ≈ נוח · עבר · תמם
to be finished, to be completed, to come to an end, to be past = process by which an activity comes to full completion
GEN 41:53 · EXO 39:32 · RUT 2:23 · 1KI 17:14 · 1KI 17:16 · 1CH 28:20 · 2CH 29:28 · 2CH 29:34 · 2CH 36:22 · EZR 1:1 · JOB 7:6 · PSA 31:11 · PSA 71:9 · PRO 22:8 · ISA 10:25 · ISA 16:4 · ISA 21:16 · ISA 24:13 · ISA 32:10 · JER 8:20 · LAM 3:22 · EZK 5:13 · DAN 11:36 · DAN 12:7
Complete | verb pi
to finish = causative action by which deities, humans, or animals bring an activity to full completion
GEN 2:2 · GEN 17:22 · GEN 18:33 · GEN 24:15 · GEN 24:19 · GEN 24:19 · GEN 24:22 · GEN 24:45 · GEN 27:30 · GEN 43:2 · GEN 44:12 · GEN 49:33 · EXO 5:13 · EXO 5:14 · EXO 31:18 · EXO 34:33 · EXO 40:33 · LEV 16:20 · LEV 19:9 · LEV 23:22 · NUM 4:15 · NUM 7:1 · NUM 16:31 · NUM 17:25 · DEU 20:9 · DEU 26:12 · DEU 31:24 · DEU 32:45 · JOS 8:24 · JOS 10:20 · JOS 19:49 · JOS 19:51 · JDG 3:18 · JDG 15:17 · RUT 2:21 · RUT 3:3 · RUT 3:18 · 1SA 3:12 · 1SA 10:13 · 1SA 13:10 · 1SA 18:1 · 1SA 24:17 · 2SA 6:18 · 2SA 11:19 · 2SA 13:36 · 1KI 1:41 · 1KI 3:1 · 1KI 7:40 · 1KI 8:54 · 1KI 9:1 · 2KI 10:25 · 2KI 13:19 · 1CH 16:2 · 1CH 27:24 · 2CH 4:11 · 2CH 7:1 · 2CH 24:10 · 2CH 24:14 · 2CH 29:17 · 2CH 29:29 · 2CH 31:1 · 2CH 31:7 · EZR 9:1 · EZR 10:17 · NEH 3:34 · ISA 49:4 · JER 26:8 · JER 43:1 · JER 51:63 · LAM 4:11 · EZK 5:13 · EZK 6:12 · EZK 7:8 · EZK 13:15 · EZK 20:8 · EZK 20:21 · EZK 42:15 · EZK 43:23 · DAN 9:24 · DAN 12:7 · AMO 7:2
Alive | verb qal
Collocation: יָמִים כלה
to spend (one's) days, to live (one's) life literally: (one's) days are finished; hence: = process by which people go through life for a particular amount of time
Alive | verb pi
Collocation: כלה יָמִים
to spend (one's) days, to live (one's) life literally: to finish (one's) days; hence: = action by which people go through the motions of life for a particular amount of time
JOB 21:13 · JOB 36:11 · PSA 90:9 · EZK 4:6 · EZK 4:8 · EZK 43:27
Alive | verb pi
to cause (someone's) else to spend (their) days literally: to finish (someone's) days; hence: = causative action by which deities cause humans go through the motions of life for a particular amount of time
Imminent | verb qal
to be imminent literally: to be finished; hence: = state in which a harmful action is about to be initiated
Imminent | verb pi
to be bent (on something) literally: to finish; hence: = causative action state in which humans are about to initiate a harmful action
Impact | verb qal
to be ravaged, to be consumed, to waste away literally: to be finished; hence: = process by which objects are heavily damaged to the extent that they are almost gone
Impact | verb pi
to ravage, to consume literally: to finish; hence: = causative action by which humans or deities cause heavy damage to objects to the extent that they are almost gone
GEN 41:30 · ISA 10:18 · ISA 27:10 · JER 10:25 · HOS 11:6 · ZEC 5:4
Whole | verb qal
to be completed, to be finished literally: to be finished; hence: = process by which an object has come to the end of its construction phase
Whole | verb pi, verb pu'al
to finish, to complete literally: to finish; hence: = causative action by which humans or deities bring an object to the end of its construction phase
GEN 2:1 · GEN 6:16 · 1KI 6:9 · 1KI 6:14 · 1KI 7:1 · 2CH 7:11
Non-Exist | verb qal | ≈ אבד · אפס · הלך · כרת
to perish, to vanish literally: to finish; hence: = process by which humans and objects completely disappear from existence
GEN 21:15 · JOB 4:9 · JOB 7:9 · PSA 37:20 · PSA 37:20 · PSA 71:13 · PSA 90:7 · ISA 1:28 · ISA 29:20 · ISA 31:3 · JER 16:4 · JER 44:27 · EZK 5:12 · EZK 13:14 · MAL 3:6
Non-Exist | verb pi
to consume, to destroy = literally: to finish; hence: = causative action by which humans and deities cause (other) humans and objects to completely disappear from existance
EXO 32:10 · EXO 32:12 · EXO 33:3 · EXO 33:5 · LEV 26:44 · NUM 16:21 · NUM 17:10 · NUM 25:11 · DEU 7:22 · DEU 28:21 · DEU 32:23 · JOS 24:20 · 1SA 15:18 · 2SA 21:5 · 2SA 22:38 · 2SA 22:39 · 1KI 22:11 · 2KI 13:17 · 2CH 8:8 · 2CH 18:10 · 2CH 20:23 · 2CH 31:1 · EZR 9:14 · JOB 9:22 · PSA 18:38 · PSA 59:14 · PSA 59:14 · PSA 74:11 · PSA 119:87 · JER 5:3 · JER 9:15 · JER 14:12 · JER 49:37 · LAM 2:22 · EZK 20:13 · EZK 22:31 · EZK 43:8
Weak | verb qal, verb pi
to pine away literally: to be finished; hence: = process by which humans feel physically weak as a result of hardship or a deeply felt wish for something to happen
2SA 13:39 · JOB 19:27 · PSA 39:11 · PSA 73:26 · PSA 84:3 · PSA 119:81 · PSA 143:7
Weak | verb qal
Collocation: עֵינַיִם כלה
(one's) eyes grow dim literally: (one's) eyes are finished; hence: = process by which someone's eyes become affected by excessive weeping or hardship
JOB 11:20 · JOB 17:5 · PSA 69:4 · PSA 119:82 · PSA 119:123 · JER 14:6 · LAM 2:11 · LAM 4:17
1 JOB 21:13 MT-K יבלו | MT-Q יְכַלּוּ
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
כָּלָה 204 vb. be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, spent Qal
be complete, at an end, of a period of time
be completed, finished, of a work
be accomplished, fulfilled
be idealy complete, be determined, always in a bad sense, plotted
be spent, used up (prop. come to an end), of water
waste away, be exhausted, fail
come to an end, vanish = perish, be destroyed
Pi.
complete, bring to an end, finish, a thing, task, work, etc.
complete a period of time
finish doing a thing
make an end, end
accomplish, fulfil, bring to pass
accomplish in thought, determine
put an end to, cause to cease
cause to fail, exhaust, use up, spend
destroy, sts. exterminate
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