כַּלְכֹּל
Calcol
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H3633 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Kings 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
כלכל — transliterated Kalkôl — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Calcol.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in 1 Kings (50% of all occurrences). It first appears in 1 Kings 4:31. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3633 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Kings 1 verse 50%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 50%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Calcol 1×, Chalcol 1×
- American Standard Version: Calcol 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Calcol 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Calcol 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3633 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3633 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3633 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3633 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Calcol or Chalcol = "sustaining"
- son or descendant of Zerah of Judah and one of the wise men with whom Solomon was compared
Word origin
כַּלְכֹּל n.pr.m. one of the wise men whom Solomon surpassed
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from כול (kûwl) (H3557) — to contain.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
כּוּל
- (b. h.) [to enclose,] to measure. Ter. X, 8 וכָל גרב Ms. (ed. כל), v. גָּרָב I.—
- q. v.
כִּלְכּוּל
- (כִּלְכֵּל)
- 1. hair-crown (cmp. כְּלִילָא), front hair from temple to temple. Sabb. VIII, 4 (78ᵇ) כדי לעשות כ׳ (Bab. ed. כלכל; Ms. M. כדי לסוד כי׳, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) enough to produce a crown by depilation of undergrowth. Ib. 80ᵇ, v. אַנְדִּיפֵי. Naz. 3ᵃ (ref. to Mish. ib. I, 1 הריני מכלכל) how do we know דהאי כ׳ שערו הוא that this vow refers to letting the hair grow?—Nidd. 52ᵇ; Tosef. ib. VI, 6 (ref. to the hair around the pudenda as evidence of maturity) כ׳ זה איני יודע (מהו) about this kilkul I know nothing.
- 2. support, sustenance. Naz. l. c. אימא מיזן עניי I may say that the kilkul (of the Mishnah, v. supra) means supporting the poor.
כִּלְכֵּל
- [to surround,]
- 1. to provide with everything; to sustain. Naz. 3ᵃ, v. כִּלְכּוּל. Ber. 58ᵇ וכ׳ אתכם בדין וכ׳ and provided for you (while alive) in justice, and gathered you in justice.
- 2. (cmp. כְּלִילָא) to raise a crown of hair, to be a nazir. Naz. I, 1 הריני מְכַלְכֵּל I will grow a crown (as a substitute for, ‘I will be a nazir’, v. כִּינּוּי). Y. ib. 51ᵇ top כאומר הריני מן המְכַלְכְּלִין as if he said, I will be one of those who wear a crown of hair.—Tosef. Nidd. VI, 6; Nidd. 52ᵇ עד שתְּכַלְכֵּל (euphem.) until she has a full growth of hair (around the pudenda).—
- *3. denom. of כֶּלִי) to arm, fit out. Midr. Till. to Ps. VII א"ל הקב"ה ולא אני כלכלתי בה (read: כִּלְכַּלְתּיו) said the Lord to him (Doëg), is it not I that fitted him (David) out with it (the sword of Goliath deposited in the Sanctuary)?—[The entire sentence is missing in ed. Bub.; note 69 a. l. quotes fr. mss. קלקלתי.]
- to be supported. Pesik. R. s. 4 אליהו נ׳ וכ׳ (not נתבלבל) Elijah was supported by the woman of Zarephath.
כַּלְכָּל
- , v. כִּלְכּוּל
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H3633 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/כַלְכֹּ֛ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 4:31 | 1 |
| וְ/כַלְכֹּ֥ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:6 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3633, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Calcol). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
(1 Chr. 2:6), sustenance, the same probably as Chalcol (1 Kings 4:31), one of the four sages whom Solomon excelled in wisdom; for "he was wiser than all men."
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(sustenance), a man of Judah, son or descendant of Zerah. (1 Chronicles 2:6) Probably identical with Chalcol.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
nourishing
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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