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title: כֶּלַח — Calah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כֶּלַח (3625), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Calah. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. 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: **Calah** — 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:** 3625 · **BDB:** כֶּ֫לַח²

### Glosses

Calah (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Calah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3625/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3625/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city in Assyria Gn 10:11, 12 = Assyrian Kalḫu, SchrCOT ad loc. DlPar 261, mod. Nimrûd, at NE. angle of Upper Zab and Tigris (v. Billerbeck u. Jeremias BASiii. 1895, 130 ff.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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/1499/3625/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 10:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.12/)

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וְֽאֶת־רֶ֔סֶן בֵּ֥ין נִֽינְוֵ֖ה וּבֵ֣ין כָּ֑לַח הִ֖וא הָעִ֥יר הַגְּדֹלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Resen between Nineveh and between Calah that \[is\].the city (the) great

*JPS 1917:* and Resen between Nineveh and Calah — the same is the great city.

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[Genesis 10:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.11/)

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מִן־הָאָ֥רֶץ הַהִ֖וא יָצָ֣א אַשּׁ֑וּר וַיִּ֙בֶן֙ אֶת־נִ֣ינְוֵ֔ה וְאֶת־רְחֹבֹ֥ת עִ֖יר רְחֹבֹ֥ת עִ֖יר וְאֶת־כָּֽלַח׃

*Word for word:* from the land (the) that he.went.forth Assyria and he.built (et) Nineveh and (et) Rehoboth-Ir and (et) Calah

*JPS 1917:* Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah,

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