kelal · finish, complete

What it means

kelal (כְּלַל) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “finish, complete”.

To finish, to complete (Aramaic).

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. To carry a work or building through until it is finished (Aramaic).

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• are finished ×2
• finish ×2
• finished ×2
• they are finishing ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Ezra 4:12

  let it be known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us, to Jerusalem; they are building the rebellious and wicked city, and they are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.

• Ezra 4:13

  Now let it be known to the king that if that city is built and the walls are finished, they will not pay tribute, tax, or toll, and it will cause harm to the treasury of kings.

• Ezra 4:16

  We inform the king that if that city is built and the walls are finished, as a result you will have no portion in the other side of the river.”

• Ezra 5:3

  At that time Tattenai, governor of the other side of the river, and Shethar-bozenai and their companions came to them, and thus they said to them: “Who gave you an order to build this house and to finish this structure?”

• Ezra 5:9

  Then we asked those elders and thus we said to them: ‘Who gave you an order to build this house and to finish this structure?’

• Ezra 5:11

  And thus they returned an answer to us, saying: ‘We are the servants of the Elah of the heavens and the earth, and we are building the house that was built many years before this; and a great king of Israel built it and finished it.

• Ezra 6:14

  And the elders of the Jews were building and prospering through the prophecy of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo; and they built and finished by the order of the Elah of Israel and by the order of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia.