Kala כָּלָא

Kala (Hebrew כָּלָא, Strong's H3607) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to restrain”. It occurs 17 times in 16 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Kala, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 8:2
  The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
• Genesis 23:6
  Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.“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.”

Exodus

• Exodus 36:6
  And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.After 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,

Numbers

• Numbers 11:28
  And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.Joshua son of Nun, the attendant to Moses since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 6:10
  And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:So the men did as instructed. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves.
• 1 Samuel 25:33
  And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.Blessed is your discernment, and blessed are you, because today you kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.

Psalms

• Psalm 40:9
  I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O LORD, do know.
• Psalm 40:11
  Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.
• Psalm 88:8
  Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
• Psalm 119:101
  I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.I have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word.

Ecclesiastes

• Ecclesiastes 8:8
  There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.As 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.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 43:6
  I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;I 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—

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 32:2
  For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.At 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.
• Jeremiah 32:3
  For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;For 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.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 31:15
  Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.This 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.

Haggai

• Haggai 1:10
  Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).