Strong H36154 sensesכָּלָה
to end: finish · to end: destroy · to end: expend · to end: decides
- Transliteration
- kâlâh
- Pronunciation
- kaw-law'
The 4 senses of Strong H3615
The lexicon tells 4 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H3615 appears in 200 verses of the KJV, all senses together.
General definition
A primitive root; to {end} whether intransitively (to {cease} be {finished} perish) or transitively (to {complete} {prepare } consume): - {accomplish} {cease} consume ({away}) {determine} destroy ({utterly}) be (when . . . were) {done} (be an) end ({of}) {expire} (cause to) {fail} {faint} {finish} {fulfil} X {fully} X {have} leave ({off}) {long} bring to {pass} wholly {reap} make clean {riddance} {spend} quite take {away} waste.
In the Bible
Translated in the KJV by
- consume57
- end35
- finish19
- fail14
- make12
- accomplish11
- pass8
- spend8
- do6
- determine4
- faileth4
- fulfil3
First verses
- Genesis 2:1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
- Genesis 2:2And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
- Genesis 6:16A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish 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 17:22And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
- Genesis 18:33And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
- Genesis 21:15And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
- Genesis 24:15And it came to pass, before he had done 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 24:19And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
- Genesis 24:22And it came to pass, as the camels had done 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 24:45And before I had done 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 27:30And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end 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 41:30And 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 the land;
- Genesis 41:53And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
- Genesis 43:2And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
- Genesis 44:12And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
- Genesis 49:33And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
- Exodus 5:13And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
- Exodus 5:14And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
- Exodus 31:18And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
- Exodus 32:10Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.