Consumption
כָּלָהStrong’s H3617kalah (ka-lah)
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kalah is the Hebrew word usually translated “complete destruction”, “completion” and “completely”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Completion, termination, full end, complete destruction, consumption, annihilationcompletion · complete destruction, consumption, annihilation
How it's translated
- complete destruction 14
- and complete destruction 3
- completion 1
- completely 1
- to complete destruction 1
- for complete destruction 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 5
- Ezekiel 3
- Isaiah 2
- Daniel 2
- Nahum 2
- Genesis 1
10 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 11:16In contextBut he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.
- Genesis 18:21I 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.
- Exodus 11:1And 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.
- 2 Chronicles 12:12And 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.
- Nehemiah 9:31Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
- Isaiah 10:23For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
Hebrew dictionary
כָּלָה kalah · consumption
1) completion, termination, full end, complete destruction, consumption, annihilation 1a) completion 1a1) completely, altogether (adv) 1b) complete destruction, consumption, annihilation
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “consumption” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONSUMPTION, noun
[Latin See Consume.]
- The act of consuming; waste; destruction by burning, eating, devouring, scattering, dissipation, slow decay, or by passing away, as time; as the consumption of fuel, of food, of commodities or estate, of time, etc.
- The state of being wasted, or diminished.
- In medicine, a wasting of flesh; a gradual decay or diminution of the body; a word of extensive signification.
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.