kala · completely; destruction

What it means

kala (כָּלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “completely; destruction”.

Completely, altogether; complete destruction.

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. A complete destruction that leaves nothing.
2. Something fully settled.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• extermination ×9
• full end ×3
• complete destruction ×2
• completely ×2
• total destruction ×2
• altogether ×1
• end of them ×1
• was decided ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×7
• Ezekiel×3
• Daniel×1
• Nahum×2
• Zephaniah×1

• Genesis 18:21

  Let me go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to its outcry that has come to me; and if not, I will know.”

• Exodus 11:1

  YHWH said to Moses, “One more plague I will bring on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you out from here completely.

• 1 Samuel 20:33

  Saul hurled the spear at him to strike him, and Jonathan knew that it was decided on the part of his father to put to death David.

• 2 Chronicles 12:12

  When he humbled himself, the anger of YHWH turned from him, so as not to destroy him completely; and also in Judah there were good things.

• Nehemiah 9:31

  Yet in your many mercies you did not make an end of them nor abandon them, for a gracious and merciful El are you.

• Isaiah 10:23

  For Adonai YHWH Tsevaot is making an extermination, and it is decreed, in the midst of all the earth.

• Isaiah 28:22

  And now do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for an extermination, and one decreed, I have heard from Adonai YHWH Tsevaot upon all the earth.

• Jeremiah 4:27

  For thus says YHWH: “The whole land will be a desolation, yet a full end I will not make.

• Jeremiah 5:10

  Go up through her vine rows and destroy, but a full end do not make; remove her branches, for they are not YHWH’s.

• Jeremiah 5:18

  But even in those days, declares YHWH, I will not make a full end of you.

• Jeremiah 30:11

  For I am with you, declares YHWH, to save you; for I will make an extermination among all the nations among which I have scattered you; but of you I will not make an extermination, but I will correct you with judgment, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.

• Jeremiah 46:28

  You, do not fear, my servant Jacob, declares YHWH, for I am with you; for I will make an extermination among all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make an extermination, and I will correct you with judgment, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.

• Ezekiel 11:13

  And it came about, as I prophesied, that Pelatiah son of Benaiah died; and I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, “Ah, Adonai YHWH! Are you bringing about complete destruction of the remnant of Israel?”

• Ezekiel 13:13

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: I will make burst a wind of storms in my fury, and a torrential rain will come in my anger, and hailstones in fury for total destruction.

• Ezekiel 20:17

  Yet my eye pitied them so as not to destroy them, and I did not make a total destruction of them in the wilderness.

• Daniel 9:27

  And he will make strong a covenant with the many for one week; and in the middle of the week he will make sacrifice and offering cease; and on the wing of detestable things will come one who makes desolate, even until the complete destruction that is decreed is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”

• Nahum 1:8

  But with a flood that passes over he will make an extermination of her place, and his enemies he will pursue into darkness.

• Nahum 1:9

  What do you devise against YHWH? An extermination he is making; distress will not rise up twice.

• Zephaniah 1:18

  Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of YHWH; and by the fire of his jealousy all the earth will be devoured; for an extermination, yes, a terrifying one, he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

And 2 more times.