ka.lah H3615

כָּלָה (ka.lah) means “to end: finish” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

כָּלָה Hebrew · H3615 208 tagged occurrences in 202 verses

Pronunciation guide: kaw-law' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H3615G

כָּלָה · ka.lah · to end: finish

: finish 1) to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be complete, be at an end 1a2) to be completed, be finished 1a3) to be accomplished, be fulfilled 1a4) to be determined, be plotted (bad sense) 1a5) to be spent, be used up 1a6) to waste away, be exhausted, fail 1a7) to come to an end, vanish, perish, be destroyed 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to complete, bring to an end, finish 1b2) to complete (a period of time) 1b3) to finish (doing a thing) 1b4) to make an end, end 1b5) to accomplish, fulfil, bring to pass 1b6) to accomplish, determine (in thought) 1b7) to put an end to, cause to cease 1b8) to cause to fail, exhaust, use up, spend 1b9) to destroy, exterminate 1c) (Pual) to be finished, be ended, be completed

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TBESH · H3615H

כָּלָה · ka.lah · to end: destroy

: destroy 1) to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be complete, be at an end 1a2) to be completed, be finished 1a3) to be accomplished, be fulfilled 1a4) to be determined, be plotted (bad sense) 1a5) to be spent, be used up 1a6) to waste away, be exhausted, fail 1a7) to come to an end, vanish, perish, be destroyed 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to complete, bring to an end, finish 1b2) to complete (a period of time) 1b3) to finish (doing a thing) 1b4) to make an end, end 1b5) to accomplish, fulfil, bring to pass 1b6) to accomplish, determine (in thought) 1b7) to put an end to, cause to cease 1b8) to cause to fail, exhaust, use up, spend 1b9) to destroy, exterminate 1c) (Pual) to be finished, be ended, be completed

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TBESH · H3615I

כָּלָה · ka.lah · to end: decides

: decides/determines/longs 1) to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be complete, be at an end 1a2) to be completed, be finished 1a3) to be accomplished, be fulfilled 1a4) to be determined, be plotted (bad sense) 1a5) to be spent, be used up 1a6) to waste away, be exhausted, fail 1a7) to come to an end, vanish, perish, be destroyed 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to complete, bring to an end, finish 1b2) to complete (a period of time) 1b3) to finish (doing a thing) 1b4) to make an end, end 1b5) to accomplish, fulfil, bring to pass 1b6) to accomplish, determine (in thought) 1b7) to put an end to, cause to cease 1b8) to cause to fail, exhaust, use up, spend 1b9) to destroy, exterminate 1c) (Pual) to be finished, be ended, be completed

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TBESH · H3615J

כָּלָה · ka.lah · to end: expend

: expend/spend/empty/fail 1) to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be complete, be at an end 1a2) to be completed, be finished 1a3) to be accomplished, be fulfilled 1a4) to be determined, be plotted (bad sense) 1a5) to be spent, be used up 1a6) to waste away, be exhausted, fail 1a7) to come to an end, vanish, perish, be destroyed 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to complete, bring to an end, finish 1b2) to complete (a period of time) 1b3) to finish (doing a thing) 1b4) to make an end, end 1b5) to accomplish, fulfil, bring to pass 1b6) to accomplish, determine (in thought) 1b7) to put an end to, cause to cease 1b8) to cause to fail, exhaust, use up, spend 1b9) to destroy, exterminate 1c) (Pual) to be finished, be ended, be completed

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

a primitive root; to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)

KJV glosses: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, [idiom] fully, [idiom] have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.

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How translators render H3615

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
had finished	20
fail	6
finished	4
and vent	3
they are finished off	3
will fail	3
consume	2
fails	2
faints	2
have finished	2
intentions	2
so that i may consume	2
they were consumed	2
to fail	2
to fulfill	2
was completed	2
was finished	2
were completed	2
when he had finished	2
when you have finished	2
will perish	2
after she	1
all the way	1
am perishing	1
and after i have vented	1
and as he finished	1
and consume	1
and consume them	1
and consumed	1
and consumed them	1
and destroy it	1
and ending	1
and finished	1
and finished him off	1
and finished it	1
and put an end to them	1
and they finished	1
and to end	1
and when i have spent	1
and when saul had finished	1
and when they had finished off	1
and wipe them	1
and you will be destroyed	1
are spent	1
as soon as moses had finished	1
at the end	1
be exhausted	1
been destroyed	1
came to an end	1
consume them	1
consumed us	1
continued	1
david had finished	1
destroyed	1
destroys	1
ehud had finished	1
exhausted	1
finish	1
finish its walls	1
finishing	1
fulfill	1
fulfilled	1
had been accomplished	1
had ended	1
has ceased	1
has destroyed	1
has ended	1
has exhausted	1
has finally been	1
he had finished	1
he has exterminated	1
he has finished	1
he has resolved	1
i devoured	1
i finish them off	1
i have finished them off	1
i have spent	1
i might destroy	1
i will spend	1
i would destroy you	1
is bent on	1
is completed	1
is consumed	1
is finished	1
is gone	1
is spent	1
it was finished	1
it was full	1
it will completely destroy	1
it will destroy	1
jacobs sons had eaten all	1
just as he finished	1
longed	1
looms	1
may fail	1
now when the man had finished	1
or be consumed	1
so as to destroy them	1
so he ended	1
so i will vent	1
so that you may put an end	1
so they finished	1
that will destroy	1
the locusts had	1
then they end	1
therefore i have consumed	1
they are consumed	1
they come to an end	1
they had dealt	1
they had utterly destroyed them all	1
they have finished gathering	1
they have had enough	1
they strip	1
they will be finished off	1
they will fade away	1
they will vanish	1
thus conclude	1
to complete	1
to destroy them	1
to eliminate them	1
to end	1
to reap	1
to stop	1
vanish	1
vanishes	1
was determined	1
was gone	1
was planning	1
wastes away	1
we are consumed	1
we finish	1
were failing	1
were finished	1
were finishing	1
when aaron has finished	1
when samson had finished	1
when the lord had finished	1
when they had finished	1
when they were finished	1
when you finish	1
when you have completed	1
will be completed	1
will be destroyed	1
will be gone	1
will devastate	1
will disappear	1
will finish them off	1
will subside	1
will they complete it	1
wipe us out	1
wiped me	1
yearns	1
you finished them off	1
you had put an end to it	1
you have finished	1
you have finished laying aside	1
you have put an end to them	1
you have wiped them out	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
had made an end	12
finished	5
shall fail	5
consumed	4
fail	4
faileth	4
and consume	3
and finished	3
and shall consume	3
when thou hast made an end	3
and it came to pass as soon as he had made an end	2
and it came to pass when he had made an end	2
and when he had made an end	2
and when they had made an end	2
are consumed	2
be accomplished	2
consume	2
had done	2
have made an end	2
is consumed	2
is determined	2
that i may consume	2
them till i have consumed	2
thus will i accomplish	2
to consume	2
upon them to accomplish	2
when they had made an end	2
against them and that i may consume	1
against them until they be consumed	1
also until they have done	1
and are spent	1
and before i had done	1
and he finished	1
and he left off	1
and i have consumed	1
and it came to pass as he had made an end	1
and it came to pass before he had done	1
and it came to pass that as soon as he had made an end	1
and it came to pass when they had eaten up	1
and it shall be when thou hast made an end	1
and left	1
and they all shall fail	1
and they made an end	1
and they shall be consumed	1
and thou shalt quite take away	1
and to consume	1
and until it was finished	1
and when he hath made an end	1
and when he shall have accomplished	1
and when she had done	1
and when they had finished	1
and when thou hast accomplished	1
and ye shall be consumed	1
are ended	1
are expired	1
are not consumed	1
are they consumed	1
as they had made an end	1
as yet failed	1
be consumed	1
but he finished	1
ceaseth	1
determined	1
did fail	1
did he consume	1
do fail	1
ended	1
fainteth	1
for we are consumed	1
from me i am consumed	1
fulfil	1
had finished	1
had fully	1
hath accomplished	1
he bringeth	1
he destroyeth	1
he had left	1
he have finished	1
him and consumed	1
i have spent	1
i will also make an end	1
is consumed away	1
is done	1
is ended	1
is spent	1
lest i consume	1
longed	1
made	1
made an end	1
might be accomplished	1
might be fulfilled	1
not consume	1
now when all this was finished	1
now when he had made an end	1
now when these things were done	1
pluck	1
shall be consumed	1
shall be finished	1
shall cease	1
shall consume	1
shall not waste	1
shall they be consumed	1
shall they consume away	1
shalt thou finish	1
should be consumed	1
so they made an end	1
that consumed	1
that shall consume	1
thee until thou hast finished	1
them but i will consume	1
them that i consumed	1
them to destroy them utterly	1
they made an end	1
they shall consume	1
they shall spend	1
they spend	1
thou hast consumed	1
thou shalt not make clean riddance	1
thou shalt not wholly reap	1
till they were consumed	1
till thou hadst consumed	1
till thou hast ended	1
till thou have consumed	1
to fail	1
to pass	1
until he had made an end	1
until he shall have done	1
until i had consumed	1
until there be an end	1
until they be consumed	1
until they had made an end	1
until they had utterly destroyed	1
until they have ended	1
until thou have consumed	1
unto the end	1
unto thee until he have consumed	1
upon thee and accomplish	1
upon them i have consumed	1
upon them i will spend	1
was ended	1
was finished	1
was spent	1
wasted	1
we spend	1
were determined	1
were ended	1
were finished	1
when he had made an end	1
when i have accomplished	1
wherefore have ye not fulfilled	1
wherefore i have consumed	1
will they make an end	1
with us till thou hadst consumed	1
yea even fainteth	1

Verses containing H3615

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Isaiah 10:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.
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Isaiah 10:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
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Isaiah 15:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.
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Isaiah 16:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.” When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land,
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Isaiah 21:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.
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Isaiah 24:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
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Isaiah 27:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
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Isaiah 29:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down—
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Isaiah 31:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.
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Isaiah 32:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.
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Isaiah 49:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”
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Jeremiah 5:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
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Jeremiah 8:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”
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Jeremiah 9:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”
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Jeremiah 10:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.
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Jeremiah 14:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
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Jeremiah 14:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”
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Jeremiah 16:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”
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Jeremiah 20:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
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Jeremiah 26:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, “You must surely die!
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Jeremiah 43:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Jeremiah had finished telling all the people all the words of the LORD their God—everything that the LORD had sent him to say—
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Jeremiah 44:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are finished off.
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Jeremiah 49:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, even My fierce anger,” declares the LORD. “I will send out the sword after them until I finish them off.
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Jeremiah 51:63 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.
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Lamentations 2:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
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Lamentations 2:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You summoned my terrors on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
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Lamentations 3:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
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Lamentations 4:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.
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Lamentations 4:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
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Ezekiel 4:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.
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Ezekiel 4:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.
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Ezekiel 5:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.
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Ezekiel 5:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, in My zeal have spoken.
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Ezekiel 6:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them.
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Ezekiel 7:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Very soon I will pour out My wrath upon you and vent My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.
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Ezekiel 13:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will tear down the wall you whitewashed and level it to the ground, so that its foundation is exposed. The city will fall, and you will be destroyed within it. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
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Ezekiel 13:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And after I have vented My wrath against the wall and against those who whitewashed it, I will say to you: ‘The wall is gone, and so are those who whitewashed it—
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Ezekiel 20:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt.
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Ezekiel 20:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
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Ezekiel 20:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
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Ezekiel 22:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”
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Ezekiel 42:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now when the man had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and he measured the area all around:
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Ezekiel 43:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they defiled My holy name by the abominations they committed. Therefore I have consumed them in My anger.
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Ezekiel 43:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you have finished the purification, you are to present a young, unblemished bull and an unblemished ram from the flock.
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Ezekiel 43:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At the end of these days, from the eighth day on, the priests are to present your burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar. Then I will accept you, declares the Lord GOD.’”
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Daniel 9:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
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Daniel 11:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must be accomplished.
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Daniel 12:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, and times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has finally been shattered, all these things will be completed.”
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Hosea 11:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A sword will flash through their cities; it will destroy the bars of their gates and consume them in their own plans.
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Amos 7:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
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