Longing
כָּלֶהStrong’s H3616kaleh (ka-leh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Kaleh is the Hebrew word usually translated “longing”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand:”
Meaning
- Failing with desire, longing, longing for
How it's translated
- and longing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
כָּלֶה kaleh · longing
failing with desire, longing, longing for
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “longing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LONG'ING, participle present
tense Earnestly desiring; having a craving or preternatural appetite.
All definitions and other forms of “longing”
LONG'ING, noun
An eager desire; a craving or preternatural appetite.
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.