נָלָה
nâlâh · H5239 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to finish
Action by which humans stop engaging in a certain activity
ExamplesIsaiah 33:1 Woe to you, destroyer, While you were not destroyed; And he who is treacherous, while others did not deal treacherously with him. As soon as you finish destroying, you will be destroyed; As soon as you cease to deal treacherously, others will deal treacherously with you.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךָyou 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for+ בָּגַדto act unfaithfully 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- כָּלָה kâlâh · H3615 · to be finished, to be completed, to come to an end
- Both words denote bringing something to completion or an end. נָלָה (nâlâh, H5239) is extremely rare, with one occurrence, and its sense matches the core senses of כָּלָה (kâlâh, H3615) (finish, end, accomplish).
- תָּמַם tâmam · H8552 · to be finished, to be spent, to be completed
- נָלָה (nâlâh, H5239) (1×) is rare and narrow, denoting completion/ending; תָּמַם (tâmam, H8552) (64×) is frequent and polysemous, covering completion, cessation, consumption, and exhaustion across five domains (Complete, Non-Exist, Dead, Innocent, Quantity).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Complete002001003003
- The word describes bringing something to completion or making an end of it, tying it to the finishing or closing off of an action or process.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5239. nalah נלה doubtful √ (Arabic , is obtain, attain, what one obtains by another's…
נלה doubtful √ (Arabic , is obtain, attain, what one obtains by another's bounty, Lane3040); — for supposed
Hiph`il Infinitive suffix כַּנְּלֹתְךָ Isa 33:1 = כְּהַנְלֹתְךָ (Ki GesLgb. 87 Köi. 574), read כְּכַלֹּתְךָ (
Pi`el Infinitive of כלה; so Ra Capp GesThes Ew Kn Che Brd Di Du), compare || כַּהֲִתמְךָ.
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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