כָּלֶה
kâleh · H3616 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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weak, dim
Literally: (one's eyes are) finished; hence: process by which someone's eyes become affected by excessive weeping
ExamplesDeuteronomy 28:32 “Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and long for them constantly; but there will be nothing you can do.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- אֻמְלַל ʼumlal · H536 · languishing, faint
- Both כָּלֶה (kâleh, H3616) and אֻמְלַל (ʼumlal, H536) are rare words, each attested only once, in the field of weakness; their senses, "fail" and "weak," cover overlapping territory of physical or emotional debility.
- אֲמֵלָל ʼămêlâl · H537 · feeble, miserable
- Both כָּלֶה (kâleh, H3616) and אֲמֵלָל (ʼămêlâl, H537) are rare words, each attested only once, in the field of weakness; their senses, "fail" and "feeble," overlap in the sense of weakness or insufficiency.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Weak002001001069
- This word describes eyes failing or growing faint from prolonged longing, as in Deuteronomy 28:32's description of eyes that "look on and long... constantly" with no relief, so it belongs among words for weakened or failing strength.
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3616. kaleh [כָּלֶה] adjective failing with desire, longing, only feminine plural…
[כָּלֶה] adjective failing with desire, longing, only feminine plural אֲלֵיהֶם וְכָלוֺת ראֹוֺת וְעֵינֶיךָ Deu 28:32 while thine eyes look and fail longingly for them (compare verb כלה Qal 2 b, and כִּלָּיוֺן below)
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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