Definition

complete; as noun, the whole (specifically, a sacrifice entirely consumed); as adverb, fully

Etymology

from H3634 (כָּלַל);

Where the KJV renders it

• all
• every whit
• flame
• perfect(-ion)
• utterly
• whole burnt offering (sacrifice)
• wholly

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

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.