kala · daughter-in-law, bride

What it means

kala (כַּלָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “daughter-in-law, bride”.

Daughter-in-law; also bride or newly married woman.

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. The son's wife.
2. A woman newly married.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• bride ×15
• daughter-in-law ×14
• daughters-in-law ×5

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Leviticus×2
• Ruth×7
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Song of Songs×6
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×2
• Joel×1
• Micah×1

• Genesis 11:31

  Terah took Abram his son, Lot son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came as far as Haran and settled there.

• Genesis 38:11

  Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up”; for he said to himself, “Lest he too die like his brothers.” So Tamar went and remained in her father’s house.

• Genesis 38:16

  He turned to her by the road and said, “Come, please, let me go in to you”; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me that you may go in to me?”

• Genesis 38:24

  About three months later Judah was told, saying, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has prostituted herself, and moreover, look, she is pregnant by prostitution.” And Judah said, “Bring her out and let her be burned!”

• Leviticus 18:15

  The nakedness of your daughter-in-law you shall not uncover; she is your son’s wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

• Leviticus 20:12

  And a man who lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have done perversion; their blood is on them.

• Ruth 1:6

  Then she arose with her daughters-in-law and returned from the fields of Moab, for she had heard in the field of Moab that YHWH had attended to his people by giving them bread.

• Ruth 1:7

  So she went out from the place where she had been, and her two daughters-in-law with her, and they went on the road to return to the land of Judah.

• Ruth 1:8

  And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return, each to the house of her mother. May YHWH do loyal love with you, as you have done with the dead and with me.

• Ruth 1:22

  So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned from the fields of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

• Ruth 2:20

  And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “Blessed be he by YHWH, who has not abandoned his loyal love with the living and with the dead.” And Naomi said to her, “The man is close to us; he is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”

• Ruth 2:22

  And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, and that they do not attack you in another field.”

• Ruth 4:15

  He will be to you one who brings back the soul and one who sustains your old age; for your daughter-in-law who loves you has borne him, she who is better to you than seven sons.”

• 1 Samuel 4:19

  Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, about to give birth. And she heard the news that the ark of Elohim had been taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, and she crouched down and gave birth, for her pains came over her.

• 1 Chronicles 2:4

  And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah: five.

• Song of Songs 4:8

  With me from Lebanon, bride, with me from Lebanon you will come; you will look from the peak of Amana, from the peak of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from the mountains of leopards.

• Song of Songs 4:9

  You have stolen my heart, my sister, bride; you have stolen my heart with one of your eyes, with one bead of your necklaces.

• Song of Songs 4:10

  How beautiful is your love, my sister, bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfumes than all balsams!

• Song of Songs 4:11

  Your lips drip honeycomb, bride; honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

• Song of Songs 4:12

  A garden locked is my sister, bride, a fountain locked, a spring sealed.

• Song of Songs 5:1

  I have come to my garden, my sister, bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my balsam; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, companions; drink, and be drunk with love!

• Isaiah 49:18

  Lift up your eyes all around and see: all of them gather, they come to you. As I live, declares YHWH, surely you will clothe yourself with all of them as with an ornament, and bind them on like a bride.

• Isaiah 61:10

  I will greatly rejoice in YHWH; my soul will exult in my Elohim, for he has clothed me with garments of salvation; with the robe of righteousness he has wrapped me, as a bridegroom puts on the headdress like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

• Isaiah 62:5

  For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you; and as the rejoicing of a bridegroom over a bride, so your Elohim will rejoice over you.

• Jeremiah 2:32

  Does a virgin forget her ornaments, a bride her sashes? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

• Jeremiah 7:34

  And I will make cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a ruin.

• Jeremiah 16:9

  For thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Look, I am making cease from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

• Jeremiah 25:10

  And I will make perish from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

• Jeremiah 33:11

  the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to YHWH Tsevaot, for YHWH is good, for his loyal love is forever,’ as they bring thanksgiving to the house of YHWH; for I will bring back the captivity of the land as at the first, says YHWH.

• Ezekiel 22:11

  And one with the wife of his neighbor has committed abomination, and another his daughter-in-law has defiled with infamy, and another his sister, the daughter of his father, has humiliated in you.

• Hosea 4:13

  On the tops of the mountains they sacrifice, and on the hills they burn incense, under oak and poplar and terebinth, for their shade is good. Therefore your daughters prostitute themselves, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

• Hosea 4:14

  I will not call your daughters to account when they prostitute themselves, or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; for they themselves go aside with prostitutes and sacrifice with sacred prostitutes; and a people that does not understand will come to ruin.

• Joel 2:16

  Gather the people, consecrate the assembly, bring together the elders, gather the children and those nursing at the breasts; let the bridegroom go out from his room, and the bride from her canopy.

• Micah 7:6

  For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.