קָלָה
kala · be dishonored
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7034 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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kala (קָלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be dishonored”.
Be held lightly, be treated with contempt or dishonor.
How to say it
ka·la
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
- Be regarded as worthless; look down on someone.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- despised ×2
- be degraded ×1
- he who treats with contempt ×1
- one lightly esteemed ×1
- will be brought into contempt ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 25:3
Forty blows he may strike him, not more, lest he go on to strike him with many blows beyond these, and your brother be degraded in your eyes.
- Deuteronomy 27:16
‘Cursed be he who treats with contempt his father and his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
- 1 Samuel 18:23
The servants of Saul spoke in the ears of David these words, and David said, “Is it a light thing in your eyes to become son-in-law to the king, when I am a poor and despised man?”
- Proverbs 12:9
Better is one lightly esteemed who has a slave than one who acts important and lacks bread.
- Isaiah 3:5
And the people will be oppressed, man by man, and man by his neighbor; the youth will be insolent toward the elder, and the despised toward the honored.
- Isaiah 16:14
But now YHWH has spoken, saying, “Within three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt with all the great multitude; and the remnant will be small, tiny, not mighty.”