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Lexicon :: Strong's H3607 - kālā'

Aa
כָּלָא
Transliteration
kālā'
Pronunciation
kaw-law'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 980

Strong’s Definitions

כָּלָא kâlâʼ, kaw-law'; a primitive root; to restrict, by act (hold back or in) or word (prohibit):—finish, forbid, keep (back), refrain, restrain, retain, shut up, be stayed, withhold.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x

The KJV translates Strong's H3607 in the following manner: shut up (4x), stayed (3x), refrained (2x), restrained (2x), withhold (2x), keep back (1x), finish (1x), forbid (1x), kept (1x), retain (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x
The KJV translates Strong's H3607 in the following manner: shut up (4x), stayed (3x), refrained (2x), restrained (2x), withhold (2x), keep back (1x), finish (1x), forbid (1x), kept (1x), retain (1x).

  1. to restrict, restrain, withhold, shut up, keep back, refrain, forbid

    1. (Qal)

      1. to shut up

      2. to restrain

      3. to withhold

    2. (Niphal) to be restrained

    3. (Piel) to finish

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כָּלָא kâlâʼ, kaw-law'; a primitive root; to restrict, by act (hold back or in) or word (prohibit):—finish, forbid, keep (back), refrain, restrain, retain, shut up, be stayed, withhold.
STRONGS H3607: Abbreviations
† [כָּלָא] verb shut up, restrain, withhold (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic כְּלָא, bdb047605; Ethiopic bdb047606 restrain, hinder; Assyrian Kâlû, id.; Arabic bdb047607 protect Qor 21:43 compare BaZMG 1887, 605 Anm. 4) —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular suffix כְּלָאוֺ Jeremiah 32:3; 3rd person feminine singular כָּֽלְאָה Haggai 1:10; 2nd person feminine singular suffix כְּלִתִ֫נִי 1 Samuel 25:33; 1st person singular כָּלִאתִי Psalm 119:101; 3rd person plural כָּֽלְאוּ Haggai 1:10, כָּלוּ 1 Samuel 6:10; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִכְלֶה Genesis 23:6; 2nd person masculine singular תִּכְלָא Psalm 40:12; 2nd person feminine singular תִּכְלָאִ֑י Isaiah 43:6; 1st person singular אֶכְלָא Psalm 40:10; Imperative suffix כְּלָאֵם Numbers 11:28; Infinitive construct לִכְלוֺא Ecclesiastes 8:8; Passive participle כָּלוּא Jeremiah 32:2, כָּלֻא Psalm 88:9; (on the metaplastic forms, as if from כלה, see Ges§ 75, 21 c Köi. 611); —
1. shut up, with accusative 1 Samuel 6:10 (+ בְ local), Jeremiah 32:3; passive participle Jeremiah 32:2 (בְ local), figurative Psalm 88:9 (opposed to יצא).
2. restrain, with accusative 1 Samuel 25:33 (+ מִבּוֺא בְדָמִים), Psalm 119:101 (+ מִכָּלֿ); כְּלָאֵם (sc. מֵהִתְנַבֵּא) Numbers 11:28; שְׂפָתַי כ׳ Psalm 40:10; אֶתהָֿרוּחַ כ׳ Ecclesiastes 8:8. On Psalm 74:11 see כלה Pi. 2.
3. withhold, אֶתקִֿבְרוֺ כ׳ מִמְּךָ מִקְּבֹר מֵתֶ֑ךָ Genesis 23:6 (P), רַחֲמֶיךָ מִמֶּ֑נּי כ׳ Psalm 40:12; Haggai 1:10b, probably also Haggai 1:10a (read טָ֑ל for MT Greek Version of the LXX מִטָּ֑ל, We); absolute אַלתִּֿכְלָאִי (that is, exiles) Isaiah 43:6 (|| תְּנִי).
Niph. Imperfect וַיִּכָּלֵא הַגֶּשֶׁם מִןהַֿשָּׁמַיִם Genesis 8:2 (J), and the rain from heaven was restrained, compare וַיִּכָּֽלְאוּ מַיִם רַבִּים Ezekiel 31:15 (in figurative; || מנע); וַיִּכָּלֵא הָעָם מֵהָבִיא Exodus 36:6 (P).
Pi. [Perfect כִּלָּא and] Infinitive construct לְכַלֵּא see כלה Pi.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

8:2; 23:6; 23:6

Exodus

36:6

Numbers

11:28; 11:28

1 Samuel

6:10; 6:10; 25:33; 25:33

Psalms

40:10; 40:10; 40:12; 40:12; 74:11; 88:9; 88:9; 119:101; 119:101

Ecclesiastes

8:8; 8:8

Isaiah

43:6; 43:6

Jeremiah

32:2; 32:2; 32:3; 32:3

Ezekiel

31:15

Haggai

1:10; 1:10; 1:10; 1:10

H3607

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Strong's Number H3607 matches the Hebrew כָּלָא (kālā'),
which occurs 18 times in 17 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:2 - And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:6 - My lord, truly you are a great chief among us; take the best of our resting-places for your dead; not one of us will keep back from you a place where you may put your dead to rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:6 - So Moses made an order and had it given out through all the tents, saying, Let no man or woman make any more offerings for the holy place. So the people were kept from giving more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:28 - Then Joshua, the son of Nun, who had been Moses' servant from the time when he was a child, said, My lord Moses, let them be stopped.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:10 - And the men did so; they took two cows, yoking them to the cart and shutting up their young ones in their living-place:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:33 - A blessing on your good sense and on you, who have kept me today from the crime of blood and from taking into my hands the punishment for my wrongs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:9 - I have given news of righteousness in the great meeting; O Lord, you have knowledge that I have not kept back my words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:11 - Take not away your gentle mercies from me, O Lord; let your mercy and your faith keep me safe for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:8 - You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:101 - I have kept back my feet from all evil ways, so that I might be true to your word.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:8 - No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:6 - I will say to the north, Give them up; and to the south, Do not keep them back; send back my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:2 - Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was round Jerusalem, shutting it in: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, in the house of the king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:3 - For Zedekiah, king of Judah, had had him shut up, saying, Why have you, as a prophet, been saying, The Lord has said, See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15 - This is what the Lord has said: The day when he goes down to the underworld, I will make the deep full of grief for him; I will keep back her streams and the great waters will be stopped: I will make Lebanon dark for him, and all the trees of the field will be feeble because of him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:24 - Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:10 - For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.
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