kal · swift, light

What it means

kal (קַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “swift, light”.

Light, swift.

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. Moving very fast, especially running.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• swift ×10
• Swifter ×1
• speedily ×1
• swiftly ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Joel×1
• Amos×2

• 2 Samuel 2:18

  The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was swift of foot like one of the gazelles that are in the field.

• Job 24:18

  Swift is he on the face of the waters; cursed is their plot in the land; he does not turn toward the road of the vineyards.

• Ecclesiastes 9:11

  I turned and saw under the sun that not to the swift is the race, nor to the mighty men the war, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the discerning riches, nor even to those who know favor, for time and occurrence befall them all.

• Isaiah 5:26

  And he will raise a banner for the nations from afar, and whistle for it from the end of the earth; and look, swiftly, speedily it comes.

• Isaiah 18:2

  which sends envoys by the sea, and in vessels of papyrus on the surface of the waters! Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared from that time and onward, a nation of strength, strength, and of trampling, whose land the rivers divide.

• Isaiah 19:1

  The burden of Egypt. Look, YHWH is riding on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt tremble before him, and the heart of Egypt melts within it.

• Isaiah 30:16

  and you said, “No, for on horses we will flee”; therefore you will flee; “and on swift steeds we will ride”; therefore your pursuers will be swift.

• Jeremiah 2:23

  How can you say, ‘I have not defiled myself; after the Baals I have not gone’? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done, a young camel, swift, entangling her ways,

• Jeremiah 46:6

  Let not the swift flee, nor the mighty man escape! Northward, by the bank of the river Euphrates, they have stumbled and fallen.

• Lamentations 4:19

  Swifter were our pursuers than the eagles of the heavens; on the mountains they chased us; in the wilderness they lay in wait for us.

• Joel 3:4

  And also, what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back a recompense? And if you are repaying me, swiftly, speedily I will return your recompense on your head.

• Amos 2:14

  And flight will perish from the swift, and the strong will not make firm his strength, and the mighty man will not deliver his soul.

• Amos 2:15

  And the one who handles the bow will not stand, and the one swift of foot will not escape, and the one who rides the horse will not deliver his soul.