כָּלָה kâlâh

Meaning

to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)

In the King James Version: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, [idiom] fully, [idiom] have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Job 19:27 I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!
• Job 21:13 They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
• Job 31:16 If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,
• Job 33:21 His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.
• Job 36:11 If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.
• Psalms 18:37 I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were consumed.
• Psalms 31:10 For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
• Psalms 37:20 But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.
• Psalms 39:10 Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
• Psalms 59:13 Consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, so it may be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Selah
• Psalms 69:3 I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
• Psalms 71:9 Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.
• Psalms 71:13 May the accusers of my soul be ashamed and consumed; may those who seek my harm be covered with scorn and disgrace.
• Psalms 72:20 Thus conclude the prayers of David son of Jesse.
• Psalms 73:26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
• Psalms 74:11 Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!
• Psalms 78:33 So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
• Psalms 84:2 My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
• Psalms 90:7 For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
• Psalms 90:9 For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
• Psalms 102:3 For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
• Psalms 119:81 My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
• Psalms 119:82 My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”
• Psalms 119:87 They almost wiped me from the earth, but I have not forsaken Your precepts.
• Psalms 119:123 My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.
• Psalms 143:7 Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.
• Proverbs 5:11 At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
• Proverbs 16:30 He who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.
• Proverbs 22:8 He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
• Isaiah 1:28 But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.
• Isaiah 10:18 The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.
• Isaiah 10:25 For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
• Isaiah 15:6 The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.
• Isaiah 16:4 Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.” When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land,
• Isaiah 21:16 For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.
• Isaiah 24:13 So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
• Isaiah 27:10 For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
• Isaiah 29:20 For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down—
• Isaiah 31:3 But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.
• Isaiah 32:10 In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.
• Isaiah 49:4 But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”
• Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
• Jeremiah 8:20 “The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”
• Jeremiah 9:16 I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”
• Jeremiah 10:25 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.
• Jeremiah 14:6 Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
• Jeremiah 14:12 Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”
• Jeremiah 16:4 “They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”
• Jeremiah 20:18 Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
• Jeremiah 26:8 and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, “You must surely die!
• Jeremiah 43:1 When Jeremiah had finished telling all the people all the words of the LORD their God—everything that the LORD had sent him to say—
• Jeremiah 44:27 I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are finished off.
• Jeremiah 49:37 So I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, even My fierce anger,” declares the LORD. “I will send out the sword after them until I finish them off.
• Jeremiah 51:63 When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.
• Lamentations 2:11 My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
• Lamentations 2:22 You summoned my terrors on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
• Lamentations 3:22 Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
• Lamentations 4:11 The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.
• Lamentations 4:17 All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
• Ezekiel 4:6 When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.