To end
כָּלָהStrong’s H3615kalah (ka-lah)
Appears in 202 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kalah is the Hebrew word usually translated “finished”, “when finished he” and “come to an end”. It appears in 202 verses of the Old Testament.
“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.”
Meaning
- To accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent(Qal) · (Piel)
How it's translated
- and he finished 11
- when finished he 7
- they will come to an end 6
- when had finished 5
- make an end 5
- he had finished 4
- and just as finished 4
- they finished 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 21
- Genesis 16
- 2 Chronicles 16
- Ezekiel 16
- Jeremiah 13
- 1 Kings 12
29 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 11:36In contextAnd the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
- Daniel 12:7In contextAnd I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
- Zechariah 5:4In contextI will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
- 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.
All 202 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
כָּלָה kalah · to end
: 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 …
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “end” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
END, noun
- The extreme point of a line, or of anything that has more length than breadth; as the end of a house; the end of a table; the end of a finger; the end of a chain or rope.
- The extremity or last part, in general; the close or conclusion, applied to time.
- The conclusion or cessation of an action.“Of the increase of his government there shall be no end” Isaiah 9:7
- The close or conclusion; as the end of a chapter.
All definitions and other forms of “end”
- Ultimate state or condition; final doom.“Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace” Psalms 37:37
- The point beyond which no progression can be made.“They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end” Psalms 107:27
- Final determination; conclusion of debate or deliberation.
- Close of life; death; decease.
- Cessation; period; close of a particular state of things; as the end of the world.
- Limit; termination.
- Destruction. Amos 8:2“The end of all flesh is come” Genesis 6:13
- Cause of death; a destroyer.
- Consequence; issue; result; conclusive event; conclusion.
- A fragment or broken piece.
- The ultimate point or thing at which one aims or directs his views; the object intended to be reached or accomplished by any action or scheme; purpose intended; scope; aim; drift; as private ends; public ends.
- An end for on end upright; erect; as, his hair stands an end
- The ends of the earth, in scripture, are the remotest parts of the earth, or the inhabitants of those parts.
END, verb transitive
To finish; to close; to conclude; to terminate; as, to end a controversy; to end a war.
- “On the seventh day God ended his work” Genesis 2:2
- To destroy; to put to death.
END, verb intransitive
To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; as, a voyage ends by the return of a ship.
- To terminate; to close; to conclude.
- To cease; to come to a close.
END'-ALL, noun
Final close. [Not used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.