# H3615 כָּלָה

כָּלָה (kâlâh), Strong’s H3615: to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume) KJV: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy…

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*kâlâh* — to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)

KJV: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when... were)…

Occurs 204 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- כָּלָה 204 vb. be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, spent
- Qal
- a be complete, at an end, of a period of time
- b be completed, finished, of a work
- c be accomplished, fulfilled
- d be idealy complete, be determined, always in a bad sense, plotted
- a be spent, used up (prop. come to an end), of water
- b waste away, be exhausted, fail
- c come to an end, vanish = perish, be destroyed
- Pi.
- a complete, bring to an end, finish, a thing, task, work, etc.
- b complete a period of time
- c finish doing a thing
- d make an end, end
- e accomplish, fulfil, bring to pass
- f accomplish in thought, determine
- a put an end to, cause to cease
- b cause to fail, exhaust, use up, spend
- c destroy, sts. exterminate

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=1) — The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.
- [Genesis 2:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=2) — On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he…
- [Genesis 6:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=16) — You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its…
- [Genesis 17:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=22) — When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
- [Genesis 18:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=33) — The LORD went his way as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
- [Genesis 21:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=15) — The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs.
- [Genesis 24:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=15) — Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of…
- [Genesis 24:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=19) — When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they have finished…
- [Genesis 24:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=22) — As the camels had finished drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her…
- [Genesis 24:45](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=45) — Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to…