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title: כֶּלַח — firm strength · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כֶּלַח (3624), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: firm strength. BDB 1906: n.m. firm rugged strength. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כֶּלַח

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«כֶּלַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **firm strength** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 3624 · **BDB:** כֶּ֫לַח

### Glosses

full.strength (1); vigor (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

firm strength [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3624/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. firm rugged strength [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3624/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. poss. firm or rugged strength (v. √ supr.), תָּבוֹא בְכ׳ אֱלֵי־קָ֑בֶר Jb 5:26 thou shalt come in firm strength (with thy body vigorous, powers unimpaired) unto the grave; עָלֵימוֹ אָבַד כָּ֑לַח 30:2 upon whom vigour has perished.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כֶּלַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3624/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 5:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.26/)

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תָּב֣וֹא בְכֶ֣לַח אֱלֵי־קָ֑בֶר כַּעֲל֖וֹת גָּדִ֣ישׁ בְּעִתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* you.will.go in full.strength to \[the\].grave as goes.up a.stack.of.sheaves at its.appropriate time

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt come to thy grave in a ripe age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.

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[Job 30:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.2/)

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גַּם־כֹּ֣חַ יְ֭דֵיהֶם לָ֣מָּה לִּ֑י עָ֝לֵ֗ימוֹ אָ֣בַד כָּֽלַח׃

*Word for word:* also the.strength their.hands their why? to me on them it.had.perished vigor

*JPS 1917:* Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished.

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