כָּלָא kâlâʼ — to restrict, by act (hold back or in) or word (prohibit)
Translated in the KJV as finish, forbid, keep, refrain, restrain, retain, shut up, be stayed, withhold.
a primitive root; to restrict, by act (hold back or in) or word (prohibit).
kâlâʼ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 6Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Participle (passive) 2Imperative 1Infinitive construct 1Jussive 1
Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
Niph'al
Wayyiqtol 3
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
Pi'el
Infinitive construct 1
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›