כָּלָא (ka.la) means “to restrain” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: kaw-law' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
כָּלָא · ka.la · to restrain
1) 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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a primitive root; to restrict, by act (hold back or in) or word (prohibit)
KJV glosses: finish, forbid, keep (back), refrain, restrain, retain, shut up, be stayed, withhold.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| were restrained | 2 |
| and penned up | 1 |
| had imprisoned him | 1 |
| has withheld | 1 |
| have withheld | 1 |
| hold them back | 1 |
| i am confined | 1 |
| i have kept | 1 |
| imprisoned | 1 |
| seal | 1 |
| stop them | 1 |
| to contain | 1 |
| was restrained | 1 |
| will withhold | 1 |
| withhold | 1 |
| you kept me | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and shut up | 1 |
| forbid | 1 |
| had shut him up | 1 |
| i have refrained | 1 |
| is stayed | 1 |
| keep not back | 1 |
| lo i have not refrained | 1 |
| of us shall withhold | 1 |
| over you is stayed | 1 |
| shut up | 1 |
| thou which hast kept | 1 |
| to finish | 1 |
| to retain | 1 |
| was restrained | 1 |
| was shut up | 1 |
| were restrained | 1 |
| were stayed | 1 |
| withhold | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 16 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
Read word by word“Listen to us, sir. You are God’s chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead.”
Read word by wordAfter Moses had given an order, they sent a proclamation throughout the camp: “No man or woman should make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing more,
Read word by wordJoshua son of Nun, the attendant to Moses since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”
Read word by wordSo the men did as instructed. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves.
Read word by wordBlessed is your discernment, and blessed are you, because today you kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.
Read word by wordI proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O LORD, do know.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 40.10
O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 40.12
You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 88.9
I have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word.
Read word by wordAs 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.
Read word by wordI 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—
Read word by wordAt that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.
Read word by wordFor Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying: “Why are you prophesying like this? You claim that the LORD says, ‘Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.
Read word by wordThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.
Read word by wordTherefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.
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