כָּלָה (kālâ) is
a Hebrew noun
meaning completion. It appears
21 times
in 11 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H3617).
Also rendered
consumption
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 982a)
Range of meaning (TWOT 982a)completion, complete destruction, consumption, annihilation; completely, destruction; altogether, consume, consumed, consummation, was determined, end, riddance
Strong's H3617כָּלָה: a completion; adverb, completely; also destruction KJV:altogether, (be, utterly) consume(-d), consummation(-ption), was determined, (full, utter) end, riddance.
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.
Root family 982: כָּלָהkālâ — 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…