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title: כָּלָה — completion · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּלָה (3617), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 21 times: completion. BDB 1906: n.f. completion, complete destruction, consumption, annihilation. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּלָה

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«כָּלָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **completion** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 21 times · **Key:** 3617 · **BDB:** כָּלָה²

### Glosses

complete.destruction (19); completely (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

completion [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3617/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. completion, complete destruction, consumption, annihilation [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3617/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. completion, complete destruction, consumption, annihilation; always this form;— completion, but only as adv., and dubious: completely, altogether Gn 18:21 (J; read כֻּלָּם Ol Kau Buhl), Ex 11:1 (si vera l.) complete destruction, consumption, annihilation: almost always by God, especially עָשָׂה כ׳ Is 10:23 (+ וְנֶחֱרָצָה), Na 1:8 (2 acc., si vera l.; Buhl ZAW 1885, 181 proposes בְּקָמָיו for מְקוֹמָהּ v. Id.HWB 12 KauAT, Text Krit. Erläut. p. 65; v. also מָקוֹם sub קום), v 9 Je 4:27 Ne 9:31 (2 acc.); + אֵת pers. = with, pergn. sense, = in dealing with (cf. II. אֵת 1 d), Zp 1:18 (כ׳ אַךְ נִבְהָלָה), Je 5:18; 30:11 = 46:28 (אֹתְךָ = אִתְּךָ), Ez 11:13; 20:17 (אוֹתָם = אִתָּם); + בְּכָל־גּוֹיִם Je 30:11; 46:28; without עשׂה: כ׳ וְנֶחֱרָצָה שָׁמַעְתִּי Is 28:22, עַד־כ׳ וְנ׳ Dn 9:27 (on both cf. Is 10:23; Zp 1:18); לְכָלָה for annihilation Ez 13:13 (si vera l., v. Co), וְלֹא לְהַשְׁחִית לְכ׳ 2 Ch 12:12. by men, וְכ׳ אַל־תַּעֲשׂוּ Je 5:10; וְכ׳ בְיָדוֹ Dn 11:16 and (i.e. with) annihilation in his hand.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּלָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3617/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nahum 1:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.9/)

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מַה־תְּחַשְּׁבוּן֙ אֶל־יְהוָ֔ה כָּלָ֖ה ה֣וּא עֹשֶׂ֑ה לֹֽא־תָק֥וּם פַּעֲמַ֖יִם צָרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* whatever you will.plot against Yahweh complete.destruction he \[will.be\].making not it.will.arise two.times trouble

*JPS 1917:* What do ye devise against the LORD? He will make a full end; trouble shall not rise up the second time.

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[Jeremiah 4:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.27/)

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כִּי־כֹה֙ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה שְׁמָמָ֥ה תִהְיֶ֖ה כָּל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וְכָלָ֖ה לֹ֥א אֶעֱשֶֽׂה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) thus he.says Yahweh a.desolation it.will.be all the earth and complete.destruction not I.will.make

*JPS 1917:* For thus saith the LORD: The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

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