Original Language Studio
Genesis 49:33
“And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
כָּלָהkâlâh · kaw-law'
H3615 · Hebrew
H3615 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- 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.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יְכַ֤ל — verb Piel, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 205 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:1Genesis 2:2Genesis 6:16Genesis 17:22Genesis 18:33
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read כָּלָה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.