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To perfect

כָּלַלStrong’s H3634

kalal (ka-lal)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Kalal is the Hebrew word usually translated “perfected”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.”
Ezekiel 27:4 KJV
Meaning
  1. To complete, perfect, make complete, make perfect(Qal) to perfect
How it's translated
  • they perfected 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Ezekiel 2

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

כָּלַל kalal · to perfect

1) to complete, perfect, make complete, make perfect 1a) (Qal) to perfect

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “perfect” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

PER'FECT, adjective

[Latin perfectus, perficio, to complete; per and facio, to do or make through, to carry to the end.]

  1. Finished; complete; consummate; not defective; having all that is requisite to its nature and kind; as a perfect statue; a perfect likeness; a perfect work; a perfect system.
  2. Fully informed; completely skilled; as men perfect in the use of arms; perfect in discipline.
  3. Complete in moral excellencies.“Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect” Matthew 5:48
  4. Manifesting perfection.“My strength is made perfect in weakness” 2 Corinthians 12:9
All definitions and other forms of “perfect”

    PER'FECT, verb transitive

    [Latin perfectus, perficio.]

    To finish or complete so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to any thing all that is requisite to its nature and kind; as, to perfect a picture or statue.

    1. “If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 1” 1 John 4:12
    2. To instruct fully; to make fully skillful; as, to perfect one's self in the rules of music or architecture; to perfect soldiers in discipline.

    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.