כָּלָא
ka.la
“to restrain”
Definition
to restrict, by act (hold back or in) or word (prohibit)
a primitive root;
- 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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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
כָּלָא appears 13 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Blessed is your discernment, and blessed are you, because today you kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.
As 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.
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The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
I 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—
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