כָּלָה

Strong’s Definition

to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)

Etymology & Derivation

a primitive root;

KJV Usage

accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, [idiom] fully, [idiom] have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent
• 2.(qal)
• 3.(piel)
• 4.(pual) to be finished, be ended, be completed

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: kâlâh; Pronunciation: kaw-law'