כַּלָּה
kallâh · H3618 · Hebrew · 34 occurrences
Meanings
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daughter-in-law
Wife of one's son
ExamplesGenesis 11:31 Now Terah took his son Abram, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they departed together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran and settled there.
Genesis 38:11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up”; for he thought, “I am afraid that he too may die like his brothers.” So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
Genesis 38:16 So he turned aside to her by the road, and said, “Here now, let me have relations with you”; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, “What will you give me, that you may have relations with me?”
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bride
Woman who is about to be married or has just been married; often associated with joy
ExamplesSong of Solomon 4:8 “Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, You shall come with me from Lebanon. You shall come down from the summit of Amana, From the summit of Senir and Hermon, From the dens of lions, From the mountains of leopards.
Song of Solomon 4:9 “You have enchanted my heart, my sister, my bride; You have enchanted my heart with a single glance of your eyes, With a single strand of your necklace.
Song of Solomon 4:10 “How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much sweeter is your love than wine, And the fragrance of your oils Than that of all kinds of balsam oils!
How it’s used In 9 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
18 occurrences in 5 groups
- הוּhis 7
- הּher 6
- ךָyour 2
- כֶםyour 2
- ךְyour 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- שְׁנַיִםtwo 2
- אָהַבto love 1
- ךְyou 1
Named alongside itApposition
11 occurrences in 5 groups
- אָחוֹתsister 4
- תָּמָרdate palm 3
- רוּתRuth 2
- אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 1
- שָׂרַיSarai 1
What it doesIt is the subject
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- יָלַדto bear 1
- נָאַףto commit adultery 1
- עָדָהto pass by 1
- קוּםto arise 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- טָמֵאto become unclean 1
- יָדַעto know 1
What it is said to bePredicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָרֶהpregnant 1
- הָher 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
- מָשׂוֹשׂjoy 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 4 groups
- לto/for 4
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
- אֵתwith 2
- כlike/as 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
5 occurrences in 2 groups
- קוֹלvoice, sound 4
- עֶרְוָהnakedness 1
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- νύμφη nýmphē · G3565 · bride, daughter-in-law
- νύμφη (nýmphē, G3565) is the direct Greek translation equivalent of כַּלָּה (kallâh, H3618), both denoting a bride, daughter-in-law, or young married woman in familial/matrimonial contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Relatives001001003012
- This word denotes a bride, daughter-in-law, or newly married woman entering a household, a kinship relationship formed through marriage, so it is classed among family/relative terms.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3618. kallah כַּלָּה noun feminine daughter-in-law, bride; — absolute ׳כ Jer 2:32 Jer…
כַּלָּה noun feminine daughter-in-law, bride; — absolute ׳כ Jer 2:32 Jer 2:14t.; suffix כַּלָּתוֺ Gen 11:31 Gen 11:5t.; כַּלָּתָהּ Rth 1:22 Rth 1:2t., etc.; plural suffix כַּלֹּתֶיהָ Rth 1:6, Rth 1:8, כַּלּוֺתֶיהָ Rth 1:7, כַּלּוֺתֵיהֶם Hos 4:13-14, —
1 daughter-in-law, in reference to husband's father Gen 38:11, Gen 38:16, Gen 38:24 (J), compare 1Ch 2:4; 1Sa 4:19; Eze 22:11; Mic 7:6; Gen 11:31 (P), Lev 18:15; Lev 20:12 (both H); husband's mother Rth 1:6-7, Rth 1:8, Rth 1:22; Rth 2:20, Rth 2:22; Rth 4:15.
2 bride, usually
a. just before marriage Isa 49:18; Isa 61:10; Isa 62:5; Jer 2:32 (all in simile, etc.), || חָתָן Jer 7:34; Jer 16:9; Jer 25:10; Jer 33:11; Joe 2:16; Son 4:8-9, Son 4:10, Son 4:11, Son 4:12; Son 5:1.
b. also just after marriage = young wife Hos 4:13-14, read הַכַּלָּה likewise 2Sa 17:3 (for הַכֹּל ᵑ0), ᵐ5 We Dr Klo Kit Bu.
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
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