Word

קָלָה

qâlâh · H7033 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

to burn, burning

Causative action by which humans expose other humans to the heat of fire; which will result in excessive suffering and/or death; also used in a more figurative sense for the burning sensation caused by high fever

Examples
Psalm 38:7 For my sides are filled with burning, And there is no healthy part in my flesh.
Jeremiah 29:22 “Because of them a curse will be used by all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,’
to roast, to cook over fire

Causative action by which humans place food items in or on a fire, in order to expose it to its heat and make it ready to be eaten

Examples
Leviticus 2:14 ‘Also if you bring a grain offering of early ripened things to the LORD, you shall bring fresh heads of grain roasted in the fire, crushed grain of new growth, for the grain offering of your early ripened produce.
parched grain

Literally: roasted; hence: ears of grain, made ready to be eaten by placing them on the fire

Examples
Joshua 5:11 Then on the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and roasted grain.

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

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מֶלֶךְking 1
Not stated (participle) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הֶםthem 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

בin/on/with+ אֵשׁfire 2

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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Semantic domains 6 entries

Impact002001001024: This sense is illustrated more loosely by the psalmist's complaint of being "badly crushed" (Psalm 38:8), a use distinct from this word's more common roasting sense.
Cooked002001001016: The word most often means to roast or parch, directly illustrated by grain "roasted in the fire" for a grain offering (Leviticus 2:14) and Israel eating roasted grain after the Passover (Joshua 5:11).
Food001003001003: The same roasted-grain citations directly illustrate this food sense (Leviticus 2:14; Joshua 5:11), as does the curse that Zedekiah and Ahab were "roasted in the fire" (Jeremiah 29:22).
Insignificant002001002015: This domain reflects the word's separate "lightly esteemed" sense (compare קָלָה (qâlâh, H7034)); it is not independently illustrated by the sampled citations, which all concern roasting or being crushed.
Shame002001002025: This domain reflects the word's separate "despised" sense (compare קָלָה (qâlâh, H7034)); it is not independently illustrated by the sampled citations.
Despise002001002005: This domain reflects the word's separate "contemn, despise" sense (compare קָלָה (qâlâh, H7034)); it is not independently illustrated by the sampled citations.

Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

קָלָהqâlâh · H7033קָלוֹן qâlôwn · H7036 · disgrace, shame, insult · 17×קָלָה qâlâh · H7034 · base, contemn, despise · 6×קָלִי qâlîy · H7039 · parched grain, roasted grain · 6×קִיקָלוֹן qîyqâlôwn · H7022 · disgrace, shame · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7033. qalah I. [קָלָה] verb roast, parch (Late Hebrew קָלָה id. (rare), קָלִי = Biblical…

H7033. qalah
I. [קָלָה] verb roast, parch (Late Hebrew קָלָה id. (rare), קָלִי = Biblical Hebrew; As kalû II. I, III. I burn, consume MeissnSuppl. 84; Sabean קלאתם conflagratio, aestus Os4; Os1; Os19; Os20 CISiv. No 74, 1.20; Arabic fry or roast wheat; Ethiopic burn, fry, so קְלָא ᵑ7 Syriac ); —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular suffix בָּאֵשׁ קָלָם Jer 29:22 (accusative of person) he roasted them with fire; Passive participle בָּאֵשׁ קָלוּי אָבִיב Lev 2:14 (P) grain parched with fire; so קָלוּי alone, as common food, Jos 5:11 (P), see קָלִי
Niph`al Participle נִקְלֶה as noun Psa 38:8 my loins are filled with burning (Vrss Bae with contempt, II. קלה).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 5 entries

Food1 occurrence Cooked1 occurrence Impact2 occurrences Despise0 occurrences Insignificant0 occurrences

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