כֶּלַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3625

Calah — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

Calah tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֶּ֫לַח²: n.pr.loc. tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.pr.loc. city in Assyria Gn 10:11, 12 = Assyrian Kalḫu, SchrCOT ad loc. DlPar 261, mod. Nimrûd, at NE. angle of Upper Zab and Tigris (v. Billerbeck u. Jeremias BASiii. 1895, 130 ff.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Calah (2).

In the verses

Genesis 10:12 · tree →

וְֽאֶת־רֶ֔סֶן בֵּ֥ין נִֽינְוֵ֖ה וּבֵ֣ין כָּ֑לַח הִ֖וא הָעִ֥יר הַגְּדֹלָֽה׃

Word for word: and (et) Resen between Nineveh and between Calah that [is].the city (the) great

JPS 1917: and Resen between Nineveh and Calah — the same is the great city.

Genesis 10:11 · tree →

מִן־הָאָ֥רֶץ הַהִ֖וא יָצָ֣א אַשּׁ֑וּר וַיִּ֙בֶן֙ אֶת־נִ֣ינְוֵ֔ה וְאֶת־רְחֹבֹ֥ת עִ֖יר רְחֹבֹ֥ת עִ֖יר וְאֶת־כָּֽלַח׃

Word for word: from the land (the) that he.went.forth Assyria and he.built (et) Nineveh and (et) Rehoboth-Ir and (et) Calah

JPS 1917: Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah,

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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