kalil · whole, complete

What it means

kalil (כָּלִיל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “whole, complete”.

All; as a noun, a whole offering, entirely burned.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Complete, with nothing lacking and nothing left over.
2. Beauty without any flaw.
3. An offering burned whole.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• whole ×5
• perfection ×3
• all ×2
• completely ×1
• entirely ×1
• it shall be wholly ×1
• was complete ×1
• wholly burned ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×3

• Exodus 28:31

  You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

• Exodus 39:22

  And he made the robe of the ephod, the work of a weaver, all of blue.

• Leviticus 6:22

  The anointed priest in his place from among his sons shall prepare it; it is a statute forever: to YHWH it shall be wholly offered up in smoke.

• Leviticus 6:23

  Every grain offering of a priest shall be wholly burned; it shall not be eaten.”

• Numbers 4:6

  And they shall put on it a covering of fine leather, and spread over it a cloth entirely of blue, and put in its poles.

• Deuteronomy 13:16

  All its spoil you shall gather into the middle of its square, and you shall burn with fire the city and all its spoil as a whole offering to YHWH your Elohim, and it shall be a heap of ruins forever; it shall not be rebuilt again.

• Deuteronomy 33:10

  They shall teach your rules to Jacob and your instruction to Israel; they shall put incense before you and whole burnt offering on your altar.

• Judges 20:40

  But the signal began to go up from the city, a column of smoke; and Benjamin turned behind him, and look, the whole city was going up toward the heavens.

• 1 Samuel 7:9

  So Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it up as a burnt offering, whole, to YHWH; and Samuel cried out to YHWH for Israel, and YHWH answered him.

• Psalms 51:19

  Then you will delight in sacrifices of righteousness, burnt offering and whole offering; then bulls will go up on your altar.

• Isaiah 2:18

  And the idols will pass away completely.

• Lamentations 2:15

  They clap their hands at you, all who pass by on the road; they hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that they called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth’?”

• Ezekiel 16:14

  And your name went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was complete through my splendor that I had set upon you, declares Adonai YHWH.

• Ezekiel 27:3

  and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrances of the sea, trader of the peoples to many coastlands: ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Tyre, you have said, “I am perfection of beauty.”

• Ezekiel 28:12

  “Son of man, raise a dirge over the king of Tyre, and say to him: ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: You were the seal of proportion, full of wisdom and perfection of beauty.