Daughter-in-law
כַּלָּהStrong’s H3618kallah (kal-lah)
Appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kallah is the Hebrew word usually translated “daughter-in-law his”, “bride” and “daughter-in-law your”. It appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.”
Meaning
- Bride, daughter-in-lawdaughter-in-law · bride, young wife
How it's translated
- daughter-in-law his 6
- a bride 6
- bride 4
- daughter-in-law your 3
- daughters-in-law her 2
- daughter-in-law her 2
- o bride 2
- and daughters-in-law her 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ruth 7
- Song of Solomon 6
- Jeremiah 5
- Genesis 4
- Isaiah 3
- Leviticus 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 38:11Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.
- Genesis 38:16And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?
- Genesis 38:24And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
- Leviticus 18:15Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son’s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
- Leviticus 20:12And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.
- Ruth 1:6Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
Hebrew dictionary
כַּלָּה kallah · daughter-in-law
: bride 1) bride, daughter-in-law 1a) daughter-in-law 1b) bride, young wife Also means: kal.lah (כַּלָּה ": daughter-in-law" H3618H)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bride” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BRIDE, noun
- A woman new married.
- A woman espoused, or contracted to be married.
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.