1) to restrict, restrain, withhold, shut up, keep back, refrain, forbid 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to shut up 1a2) to restrain 1a3) to withhold 1b) (Niphal) to be restrained 1c) (Piel) to finish
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H3607 — כָּלָא
ka.la · to restrain · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 8:2 · וַיִּכָּלֵ֥אThe springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.Genesis 23:6 · יִכְלֶ֥ה“Listen to us, sir. You are God’s chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead.”Exodus 36:6 · וַיִּכָּלֵ֥אAfter Moses had given an order, they sent a proclamation throughout the camp: “No man or woman should make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing more,Numbers 11:28 · כְּלָאֵֽם׃Joshua son of Nun, the attendant to Moses since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”1 Samuel 6:10 · כָּל֥וּSo the men did as instructed. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves.1 Samuel 25:33 · כְּלִתִ֜נִיBlessed is your discernment, and blessed are you, because today you kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.Psalm 40:9 · אֶכְלָ֑אI proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O LORD, do know.Psalm 40:11 · תִכְלָ֣אO LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.Psalm 88:8 · כָּ֝לֻ֗אYou have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.Psalm 119:101 · כָּלִ֣אתִיI have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word.Ecclesiastes 8:8 · לִכְל֣וֹאAs no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.Isaiah 43:6 · תִּכְלָ֑אִיI will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—Jeremiah 32:2 · כָלוּא֙At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.Jeremiah 32:3 · כְּלָא֔וֹFor Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying: “Why are you prophesying like this? You claim that the LORD says, ‘Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.Haggai 1:10 · כָּלְא֥וּ · כָּלְאָ֥הTherefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.