כָּלָה kâlâh — to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitive (to complete, prepare, consume)
Translated in the KJV as accomplish, cease, consume, determine, destroy, be done, end, expire, fail, faint, finish, fulfil.
a primitive root; to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitive (to complete, prepare, consume).
kâlâh in each stem
Pi'el
Infinitive construct 49Perfect (qatal) 28Wayyiqtol 22Imperfect (yiqtol) 15Sequential perfect (weqatal) 12Imperative 4Participle (active) 3Infinitive absolute 3Cohortative 2
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 31Imperfect (yiqtol) 12Infinitive construct 10Wayyiqtol 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 5Jussive 1
And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did they.
Pu'al
Wayyiqtol 1Perfect (qatal) 1
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
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 ›