Definition

a completion; adverb, completely; also destruction

Etymology

from H3615 (כָּלָה);

Where the KJV renders it

• altogether
• (be
• utterly) consume(-d)
• consummation(-ption)
• was determined
• (full
• utter) end
• riddance

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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