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Strong's H3615 כָּלָה (kalah)

Kalah means “cease” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G3615 — oikiakos (“familiar”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H3615
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 199
Books 29

Strong's H3615 Quick Answer

Strong's H3615 כָּלָה (kalah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. kalah (kaw-law') v. 1. to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume) [a primitive root] It has 199 linked Bible usages across 29 books. Visible English usage signals include end, finished, consume, had, and ended. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
kalah (kaw-law') v. 1. to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume) [a primitive root]
Usage
199 linked usages
Books
29 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
end, finished, consume, had, and ended

Meaning and Definition

kalah (kaw-law') v. 1. to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume) [a primitive root] KJV: 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.

Original Word
כָּלָה
Transliteration
kalah
Derivation
Root: כלה
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H3615. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to end: finish

Usage: : finish 1) to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be complete, be at an end 1a2) to be completed, be finished 1a3) to be accomplished, be fulfilled 1a4) to be determined, be plotted (bad sense) 1a5) to be spent, be used up 1a6) to waste away, be exhausted, fail 1a7) to come to an end, vanish, perish, be destroyed 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to complete, bring to an end, finish 1b2) to complete (a period of time)

1b3) to finish (doing a thing) 1b4) to make an end, end 1b5) to accomplish, fulfil, bring to pass 1b6) to accomplish, determine (in thought) 1b7) to put an end to, cause to cease 1b8) to cause to fail, exhaust, use up, spend 1b9) to destroy, exterminate 1c) (Pual) to be finished, be ended, be completed

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How Strong's H3615 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kalah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

end Exodus 31:18 36× finished Exodus 39:32 17× consume Exodus 32:10 10× had Genesis 18:33 ended Genesis 41:53 they Genesis 24:19 accomplished 2 Chronicles 36:22 finish Genesis 6:16 perish Job 4:9 she Genesis 24:19 was Genesis 21:15 were Genesis 2:1

How Strong's H3615 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 199 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H3615 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H3615 in the Old Testament

199 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 2:1 KJV

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Genesis 2:2 KJV

And 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 6:16 KJV

A 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.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3615.

Genesis 2:1 Old Testament, KJV
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Genesis 2:2 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 6:16 Old Testament, KJV
A 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 17:22 Old Testament, KJV
And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
Genesis 18:33 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
Genesis 21:15 Old Testament, KJV
And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
Genesis 24:15 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 24:19 Old Testament, KJV
And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
Genesis 24:22 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 24:45 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 27:30 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 41:30 Old Testament, KJV
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 the land;
Genesis 41:53 Old Testament, KJV
And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
Genesis 43:2 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 44:12 Old Testament, KJV
And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
Genesis 49:33 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 5:13 Old Testament, KJV
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Exodus 5:14 Old Testament, KJV
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 your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
Exodus 31:18 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 32:10 Old Testament, KJV
Now 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.
Exodus 32:12 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
Exodus 33:3 Old Testament, KJV
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 thee in the way.
Exodus 33:5 Old Testament, KJV
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 thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
Exodus 34:33 Old Testament, KJV
And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.
Exodus 39:32 Old Testament, KJV
Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
Exodus 40:33 Old Testament, KJV
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 the work.
Leviticus 16:20 Old Testament, KJV
And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:
Leviticus 19:9 Old Testament, KJV
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
Leviticus 23:22 Old Testament, KJV
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance 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 Old Testament, KJV
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Leviticus 26:44 Old Testament, KJV
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, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
Numbers 4:15 Old Testament, KJV
And when Aaron and his sons have made an end 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 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully 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 Old Testament, KJV
Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
Numbers 16:31 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
Numbers 16:45 Old Testament, KJV
Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
Numbers 17:10 Old Testament, KJV
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 their murmurings from me, that they die not.
Numbers 25:11 Old Testament, KJV
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 not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
Deuteronomy 7:22 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
Deuteronomy 20:9 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.
Deuteronomy 26:12 Old Testament, KJV
When thou hast made an end 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 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
Deuteronomy 31:24 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
Deuteronomy 32:23 Old Testament, KJV
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
Deuteronomy 32:45 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
Joshua 8:24 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end 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 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end 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 Old Testament, KJV
When they had made an end 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 Old Testament, KJV
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 of dividing the country.
Joshua 24:20 Old Testament, KJV
If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
Judges 3:18 Old Testament, KJV
And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
Judges 15:17 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.
Ruth 2:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
Ruth 2:23 Old Testament, KJV
So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.
Ruth 3:3 Old Testament, KJV
Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.
Ruth 3:18 Old Testament, KJV
Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day.
1 Samuel 2:33 Old Testament, KJV
And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
1 Samuel 3:12 Old Testament, KJV
In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.
1 Samuel 10:13 Old Testament, KJV
And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.
1 Samuel 13:10 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.
1 Samuel 15:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
1 Samuel 18:1 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
1 Samuel 20:7 Old Testament, KJV
If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him.
1 Samuel 20:9 Old Testament, KJV
And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?
1 Samuel 24:16 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
1 Samuel 25:17 Old Testament, KJV
Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.
2 Samuel 6:18 Old Testament, KJV
And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts.
2 Samuel 11:19 Old Testament, KJV
And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,
2 Samuel 13:36 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.
2 Samuel 13:39 Old Testament, KJV
And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
2 Samuel 21:5 Old Testament, KJV
And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
2 Samuel 22:38 Old Testament, KJV
I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.
2 Samuel 22:39 Old Testament, KJV
And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
1 Kings 1:41 Old Testament, KJV
And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?
1 Kings 3:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
1 Kings 6:9 Old Testament, KJV
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
1 Kings 6:14 Old Testament, KJV
So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
1 Kings 6:38 Old Testament, KJV
And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
1 Kings 7:1 Old Testament, KJV
But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
1 Kings 7:40 Old Testament, KJV
And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
1 Kings 8:54 Old Testament, KJV
And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
1 Kings 9:1 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
1 Kings 17:14 Old Testament, KJV
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
1 Kings 17:16 Old Testament, KJV
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
1 Kings 22:11 Old Testament, KJV
And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.
2 Kings 10:25 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
2 Kings 13:17 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
2 Kings 13:19 Old Testament, KJV
And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
1 Chronicles 16:2 Old Testament, KJV
And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD.
1 Chronicles 27:24 Old Testament, KJV
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.
1 Chronicles 28:20 Old Testament, KJV
And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 4:11 Old Testament, KJV
And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;
2 Chronicles 7:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.
2 Chronicles 7:11 Old Testament, KJV
Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.
2 Chronicles 8:8 Old Testament, KJV
But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.
2 Chronicles 8:16 Old Testament, KJV
Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected.
2 Chronicles 18:10 Old Testament, KJV
And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.
2 Chronicles 20:23 Old Testament, KJV
For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
2 Chronicles 24:10 Old Testament, KJV
And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
2 Chronicles 24:14 Old Testament, KJV
And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.
2 Chronicles 29:17 Old Testament, KJV
Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
2 Chronicles 29:28 Old Testament, KJV
And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
2 Chronicles 29:29 Old Testament, KJV
And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
2 Chronicles 29:34 Old Testament, KJV
But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
2 Chronicles 31:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
2 Chronicles 31:7 Old Testament, KJV
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
2 Chronicles 36:22 Old Testament, KJV
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
Ezra 1:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
Ezra 9:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Ezra 9:14 Old Testament, KJV
Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?
Ezra 10:17 Old Testament, KJV
And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
Nehemiah 4:2 Old Testament, KJV
And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
Esther 7:7 Old Testament, KJV
And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
Job 4:9 Old Testament, KJV
By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Job 7:6 Old Testament, KJV
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 7:9 Old Testament, KJV
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
Job 9:22 Old Testament, KJV
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Job 11:20 Old Testament, KJV
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
Job 17:5 Old Testament, KJV
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Job 19:27 Old Testament, KJV
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3615, grouped by book.

Genesis 16 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 10 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 5 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 7 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 7 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 5 usages, Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Old Testament
Ruth 4 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 10 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 7 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 12 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 3 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 16 usages, Old Testament
Ezra 4 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Esther 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 10 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 21 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 3 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 12 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 13 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 5 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 15 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 3 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Old Testament

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What does kalah (כָּלָה) mean?

Kalah (Strong's H3615) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "cease". kalah (kaw-law') v. 1. to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume) [a primitive root]

How many times is kalah (כָּלָה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 199 linked usages for Strong's H3615 across 29 books.

Where can I study kalah (כָּלָה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3615 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate kalah (כָּלָה)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as end, finished, consume, had, ended, and they. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.