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Lexicon :: Strong's H3618 - kallâ

Aa
כַּלָּה
Transliteration
kallâ
Pronunciation
kal-law'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 986a

Strong’s Definitions

כַּלָּה kallâh, kal-law'; from H3634; a bride (as if perfect); hence, a son's wife:—bride, daughter-in-law, spouse.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 34x

The KJV translates Strong's H3618 in the following manner: daughter in law (17x), bride (9x), spouse (8x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 34x
The KJV translates Strong's H3618 in the following manner: daughter in law (17x), bride (9x), spouse (8x).

  1. bride, daughter-in-law

    1. daughter-in-law

    2. bride, young wife

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כַּלָּה kallâh, kal-law'; from H3634; a bride (as if perfect); hence, a son's wife:—bride, daughter-in-law, spouse.
STRONGS H3618: Abbreviations
† כַּלָּה noun feminine daughter-in-law, bride; — absolute כ׳ Jeremiah 2:32 + 14 times; suffix כַּלָּתוֺ Genesis 11:31 + 5 times; כַּלָּתָהּ Ruth 1:22 + 2 times, etc.; plural suffix כַּלֹּתֶיהָ Ruth 1:6, 8, כַּלּוֺתֶיהָ Ruth 1:7, כַּלּוֺתֵיהֶם Hosea 4:13, 14; —
1. daughter-in-law, in reference to husband's father Genesis 38:11, 16, 24 (J), compare 1 Chronicles 2:4; 1 Samuel 4:19; Ezekiel 22:11; Micah 7:6; Genesis 11:31 (P), Leviticus 18:15; Leviticus 20:12 (both H); husband's mother Ruth 1:6, 7, 8, 22; Ruth 2:20, 22; Ruth 4:15.
2. bride, usually
a. just before marriage Isaiah 49:18; Isaiah 61:10; Isaiah 62:5; Jeremiah 2:32 (all in simile, etc.), || חָתָן Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 16:9; Jeremiah 25:10; Jeremiah 33:11; Joel 2:16; Songs 4:8, 9, 10, 11, 12; Songs 5:1.
b. also just after marriage = young wife Hosea 4:13, 14; read הַכַּלָּה likewise 2 Samuel 17:3 (for MT הַכֹּל), Greek Version of the LXX We Dr Klo Kit Bu.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

11:31; 11:31; 38:11; 38:16; 38:24

Leviticus

18:15; 20:12

Ruth

1:6; 1:6; 1:7; 1:7; 1:8; 1:8; 1:22; 1:22; 2:20; 2:22; 4:15

1 Samuel

4:19

2 Samuel

17:3

1 Chronicles

2:4

Song of Songs

4:8; 4:9; 4:10; 4:11; 4:12; 5:1

Isaiah

49:18; 61:10; 62:5

Jeremiah

2:32; 2:32; 7:34; 16:9; 25:10; 33:11

Ezekiel

22:11

Hosea

4:13; 4:13; 4:14; 4:14

Joel

2:16

Micah

7:6

H3618

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3618 matches the Hebrew כַּלָּה (kallâ),
which occurs 34 times in 34 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 - And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:11 - Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:16 - And turning to her by the roadside, he said to her, Let me come in to you; for he had no idea that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me as my price?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:24 - Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:15 - Or with your daughter-in-law, for she is your son's wife, and you may not take her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:12 - And if a man has sex relations with his son's wife, the two of them are to be put to death: it is unnatural; their blood will be on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:6 - So she and her daughters-in-law got ready to go back from the country of Moab, for news had come to her in the country of Moab that the Lord, in mercy for his people, had given them food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:7 - And she went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on their way to go back to the land of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:8 - And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go back to your mothers' houses: may the Lord be good to you as you have been good to the dead and to me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:22 - So Naomi came back out of the country of Moab, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her; and they came to Beth-lehem in the first days of the grain-cutting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:20 - And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, May the blessing of the Lord, who has at all times been kind to the living and to the dead, be on him. And Naomi said to her, The man is of our family, one of our near relations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:22 - And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, It is better, my daughter, for you to go out with his servant-girls, so that no danger may come to you in another field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:15 - He will be a giver of new life to you, and your comforter when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who, in her love for you, is better than seven sons, has given birth to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:19 - And his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was with child and near the time when she would give birth; and when she had the news that the ark of God had been taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, her pains came on her suddenly and she gave birth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:4 - And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had Perez and Zerah by him. All the sons of Judah were five.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:8 - Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon; see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:9 - You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:10 - How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:11 - Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:12 - A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:1 - I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:18 - Let your eyes be lifted up round about, and see: they are all coming together to you. By my life, says the Lord, truly you will put them all on you as an ornament, and be clothed with them like a bride.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:10 - I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:5 - For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:32 - Is it possible for a virgin to put out of her memory her ornaments, or a bride her robes? but my people have put me out of their memories for unnumbered days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34 - And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:9 - For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:10 - And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:11 - Happy sounds, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who say, Give praise to the Lord of armies, for the Lord is good, for his mercy is unchanging for ever: the voices of those who go with praise into the house of the Lord. For I will let the land come back to its first condition, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:11 - And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:13 - They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:14 - I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:16 - Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:6 - For the son puts shame on his father, the daughter goes against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's haters are those of his family.
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