Lexical Summary kalah: completion, complete destruction, consumption, annihilation Original Word: כָּלָהTransliteration: kalah Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-law') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: completion, complete destruction, consumption, annihilation Meaning: completion, complete destruction, consumption, annihilation Strong's Concordance altogether, be, utterly consumed, consummation, was determined, utter end, riddanceFrom kalah; a completion; adverb, completely; also destruction -- altogether, (be, utterly) consume(-d), consummation(-ption), was determined, (full, utter) end, riddance. see HEBREW kalah Brown-Driver-Briggs H3617. kalah כָּלָה noun feminine completion, complete destruction, consumption, annihilation; always this form; — 1 completion, but only as adverb, and dubious: completely, altogether Genesis 18:21 (J; read כֻּלָּם Ol Kau Buhl), Exodus 11:1 (si vera lectio) 2 complete destruction, consumption, annihilation: a. almost always by God, especially כ ׳עָשָׂה Isaiah 10:23 (+ וְנֶחֱרָצָה), Nahum 1:8 (2 accusative, si vera lectio; BuhlZAW 1885, 181 proposes בְּקָמָיו for מְקוֺמָהּ see IdHWB 12 KauAT, Text Krit. Erläut. p. 65; see also מָקוֺם below קום), 1:9; Jeremiah 4:27; Nehemiah 9:31 (2 accusative); + אֵת person = with, pregnant sense, = in dealing with (compare II. אֵת 1d), Zephaniah 1:18 (׳כ נִבְהָלָה אַךְ), Jeremiah 5:18; 30:11 = 46:28 (אֹתְָךָ = אִתְּךָ), Ezekiel 11:13; 20:17 (אוֺתָם = אִתָּם); + בְּכָלגּֿוֺיִם Jeremiah 30:11; 46:28; without ׳כ ׃עשׂה שָׁמַעְתִּי וְנֶחֱרָצָה Isaiah 28:22, ׳עַדכֿ ׳וְנ Daniel 9:27 (on both compare Isaiah 10:23; Zephaniah 1:18); לְכָלָה for annihilation Ezekiel 13:13 (si vera lectio, see Co), לְכ לְהַשְׁחִית ׳וְלֹא2 Chronicles 12:12. b. by men, תַּעֲשׂוּ ׳וְכ אַלֿ Jeremiah 5:10; ׳וְכ בְיָדוֺ Daniel 11:16 and (i.e. with) annihilation in his hand. |
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