כָּלָה
kālâ
be complete
Strong's H3615VerbHebrewTWOT 982

כָּלָה (kālâ) is a Hebrew verb meaning be complete. It appears 205 times in 29 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H3615).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 982)

Range of meaning (TWOT 982)be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, spent; be completed, fulfilled, be determined, plotted, used up, come to an end, waste away, be exhausted, fail, vanish, perish, be destroyed; bring to an end, make an end, end…
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

כָּלָה verb: be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, spent

Strong's H3615 כָּלָה: to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitive (to complete, prepare, consume)
KJV:accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, × fully, × have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Genesis 2:1Exodus 5:13Leviticus 16:20

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