Kalah means “completion” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3617 — oikodespotes (“householder”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3617 כָּלָה (kalah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. kalah (kaw-law') n-f. 1. a completion 2. adverb, completely It has 19 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include altogether, also, utterly, and consume. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
kalah (kaw-law') n-f. 1. a completion 2. adverb, completely 3. also destruction [from H3615] KJV: altogether, (be, utterly) consume(-d), consummation(-ption), was determined, (full, utter) end, riddance. Root(s): H3615
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H3617. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
consumption
Usage: 1) completion, termination, full end, complete destruction, consumption, annihilation 1a) completion 1a1) completely, altogether (adv) 1b) complete destruction, consumption, annihilation
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.
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.
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19 indexed usages in Old Testament.
I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.
And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3617.
I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.
And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.
And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well.
Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's.
Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet I will not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3617, grouped by book.
Kalah (Strong's H3617) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "completion". kalah (kaw-law') n-f. 1. a completion 2. adverb, completely
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's H3617 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3617 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as altogether, also, utterly, and consume. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.