כַּלָּה
kal.lah
“daughter-in-law: bride”
Definition
a bride (as if perfect); hence, a son's wife
from H3634 (כָּלַל);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
כַּלָּה appears 34 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Tamar, Judah’s daughter-in-law, bore to him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.
About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.”“Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.
You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.
So Naomi returned from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. And they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.
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