Entire
כָּלִילStrong’s H3632kalil (ka-lil)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kalil is the Hebrew word usually translated “whole offering”, “entirety of” and “perfect of”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.”
Meaning
- Entire, all, perfect
- Entirety
- Whole, whole burnt offering, holocaust, entirety
How it's translated
- a whole offering 4
- an entirety of 3
- and whole offering 2
- perfect of 2
- entirety of 1
- completely 1
- perfect 1
- and perfect of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
- Exodus 2
- Leviticus 2
- Deuteronomy 2
- Numbers 1
- Judges 1
10 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 39:22And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
- Leviticus 6:22And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the LORD; it shall be wholly burnt.
- Leviticus 6:23For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.
- Numbers 4:6And shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
- Deuteronomy 13:16And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
- Deuteronomy 33:10They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
Hebrew dictionary
כָּלִיל kalil · entire
adj 1) entire, all, perfect adv 2) entirety subst 3) whole, whole burnt offering, holocaust, entirety
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “entire” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ENTI'RE, adjective
[Latin integer, said to be in neg. and tango, to touch.]
- Whole; undivided; unbroken; complete in its parts.
- Whole; complete; not participated with others.
- Full; complete; comprising all requisites in itself.
- Sincere; hearty.
All definitions
- Firm; solid; sure; fixed; complete; undisputed.
- Unmingled; unalloyed.
- Wholly devoted; firmly adherent; faithful.
- In full strength; unbroken.
- In botany, an entire stem is one without branches; an entire leaf is without any opening in the edge, not divided.
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.