Usually translated as
end, consume, fail, done, accomplish, spend, cease, finish, fully, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, waste, determine, destroy, be, expire, faint, fulfil, have, leave, long, quite take away
Occurrences
Kâlâh occurs 206 times in 200 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (16), Exodus (9), Leviticus (5), Numbers (7), Deuteronomy (7), Joshua (5), Judges (2), Ruth (4), 1 Samuel (11), 2 Samuel (7), 1 Kings (12), 2 Kings (3), 1 Chronicles (3), 2 Chronicles (16), Ezra (4), Nehemiah (1), Esther (1), Job (11), Psalms (21), Proverbs (3), Isaiah (12), Jeremiah (13), Lamentations (5), Ezekiel (15), Daniel (3), Hosea (1), Amos (1), Zechariah (1), Malachi (1)
- Genesis 2:1 — Thus the heavens and the earth were finished (וַיְכֻלּ֛וּ), and all the host of them.
- Genesis 2:2 — And on the seventh day God ended (וַיְכַ֤ל) his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
- Genesis 6:16 — A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish (תְּכַלֶ֣נָּה) it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
- Genesis 17:22 — And he left off (וַיְכַ֖ל) talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
- Genesis 18:33 — And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left (כִּלָּ֔ה) communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
- Genesis 21:15 — And the water was spent (וַיִּכְל֥וּ) in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
- Genesis 24:15 — And it came to pass, before he had done (כִּלָּ֣ה) speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
- Genesis 24:19 — And when she had done (וַתְּכַ֖ל) giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
- Genesis 24:19 — And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done (כִּלּ֖וּ) drinking.
- Genesis 24:22 — And it came to pass, as the camels had done (כִּלּ֤וּ) drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
- Genesis 24:45 — And before I had done (אֲכַלֶּ֜ה) speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.
- Genesis 27:30 — And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end (כִּלָּ֣ה) of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
- Genesis 41:30 — And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume (וְכִלָּ֥ה) the land;
- Genesis 41:53 — And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended (וַתִּכְלֶ֕ינָה).
- Genesis 43:2 — And it came to pass, when they had eaten up (כִּלּוּ֙) the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
- Genesis 44:12 — And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left (כִּלָּ֑ה) at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
- Genesis 49:33 — And when Jacob had made an end (וַיְכַ֤ל) of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
- Exodus 5:14 — And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled (כִלִּיתֶ֨ם) your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
- Exodus 31:18 — And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end (כְּכַלֹּתוֹ֙) of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
- Exodus 32:10 — Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume (וַאֲכַלֵּ֑ם) them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
- Exodus 32:12 — Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume (וּ֨לְכַלֹּתָ֔ם) them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
- Exodus 33:3 — Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume (אֲכֶלְךָ֖) thee in the way.
- Exodus 33:5 — For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume (וְכִלִּיתִ֑יךָ) thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
- Exodus 34:33 — And till Moses had done (וַיְכַ֣ל) speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.
- Exodus 39:32 — Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished (וַתֵּ֕כֶל): and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
- Exodus 40:33 — And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished (וַיְכַ֥ל) the work.
- Leviticus 16:20 — And when he hath made an end (וְכִלָּה֙) of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:
- Leviticus 19:9 — And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap (תְכַלֶּ֛ה) the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
- Leviticus 23:22 — And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance (תְכַלֶּ֞ה) of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
- 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 (מְכַלּ֥וֹת) the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
- Leviticus 26:44 — And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly (לְכַלֹּתָ֔ם), and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
- Numbers 4:15 — And when Aaron and his sons have made an end (וְכִלָּ֣ה) of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.
- Numbers 7:1 — And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully (כַּלּ֨וֹת) set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
- Numbers 16:21 — Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume (וַאַכַלֶּ֥ה) them in a moment.
- Numbers 16:31 — And it came to pass, as he had made an end (כְּכַלֹּת֔וֹ) of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
- Numbers 16:45 — Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume (וַאֲכַלֶּ֥ה) them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
- Numbers 17:10 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away (וּתְכַ֧ל) their murmurings from me, that they die not.
- Numbers 25:11 — Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed (כִלִּ֥יתִי) not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
- Deuteronomy 7:22 — And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume (כַּלֹּתָ֣ם) them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
- Deuteronomy 20:9 — And it shall be, when the officers have made an end (כְּכַלֹּ֥ת) of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.
- Deuteronomy 26:12 — When thou hast made an end (תְכַלֶּ֞ה) of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;
- Deuteronomy 28:21 — The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed (כַּלֹּת֣וֹ) thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 31:24 — And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end (כְּכַלּ֣וֹת) of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
- Deuteronomy 32:23 — I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend (אֲכַלֶּה) mine arrows upon them.
- Deuteronomy 32:45 — And Moses made an end (וַיְכַ֣ל) of speaking all these words to all Israel:
- Joshua 8:24 — And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end (כְּכַלּ֣וֹת) of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
- Joshua 10:20 — And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end (כְּכַלּ֨וֹת) of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities.
- Joshua 19:49 — When they had made an end (וַיְכַלּ֥וּ) of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:
- Joshua 19:51 — These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end (וַיְכַלּ֕וּ) of dividing the country.
- Joshua 24:20 — If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume (וְכִלָּ֣ה) you, after that he hath done you good.