Usually translated as
be stayed, withhold, finish, forbid, keep, retain, refrain, restrain, shut up
Occurrences
Kâlâʼ occurs 18 times in 17 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Exodus (1), Numbers (1), 1 Samuel (2), Psalms (4), Ecclesiastes (1), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (2), Ezekiel (1), Daniel (1), Haggai (1)
- Genesis 8:2 — The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained (וַיִּכָּלֵ֥א);
- 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 (יִכְלֶ֥ה) from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
- Exodus 36:6 — And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained (וַיִּכָּלֵ֥א) from bringing.
- 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 (כְּלָאֵֽם) them.
- 1 Samuel 6:10 — And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up (כָּל֥וּ) their calves at home:
- 1 Samuel 25:33 — And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept (כְּלִתִ֜נִי) 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 (אֶכְלָ֑א) my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
- Psalms 40:11 — Withhold (תִכְלָ֣א) 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 (כָּ֝לֻ֗א), and I cannot come forth.
- Psalms 119:101 — I have refrained (כָּלִ֣אתִי) 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 (לִכְל֣וֹא) the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
- Isaiah 43:6 — I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back (תִּכְלָ֑אִי): 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 (כָלוּא֙) 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 (כְּלָא֔וֹ), saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
- Ezekiel 31:15 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed (וַיִּכָּלְא֖וּ): and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
- 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 iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
- Haggai 1:10 — Therefore the heaven over you is stayed (כָּלְא֥וּ) from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
- Haggai 1:10 — Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed (כָּלְאָ֥ה) from her fruit.