קָלַל
to be light
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘make light’
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘be slight’
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”). Here: ‘shew oneself swift Is 30’
- Pilpel
- A reduplicated intensive stem of two-letter or hollow roots.
- Pual
- The passive counterpart of the Piel.
Form
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Person
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
7 verses where H7043 appears in the Piel stem in the Book of 2 Samuel. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
2 Samuel
- 2 Samuel 16:5 וּ/מְקַלֵּֽל conj + Piel ptcp.act ms When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of the house of Saul came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out, and cursed still as he came.
- 2 Samuel 16:7 בְּ/קַֽלְל֑/וֹ prep + Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms Thus said Shimei when he cursed, Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow:
- 2 Samuel 16:9 יְקַלֵּ֞ל Piel impf 3ms Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head."
- 2 Samuel 16:10 יְקַלֵּ֗ל קַלֵּ֣ל Piel impf 3ms Piel impv 2ms The king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, Curse David; who then shall say, Why have you done so?
- 2 Samuel 16:11 וִֽ/יקַלֵּ֔ל conj + Piel impf 3ms David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeks my life: how much more [may] this Benjamite now [do it]? let him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.
- 2 Samuel 16:13 וַ/יְקַלֵּ֔ל conj + Piel wimpf 3ms So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hill-side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.
- 2 Samuel 19:21 קִלֵּ֖ל Piel pf 3ms But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, Shall Shimei not be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh's anointed?
About this entry
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קלל (qâlal) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to be light.” As a verb its force shifts by stem, across 7 stems (Qal, Niphal, and more). The Hebrew Bible uses it across 79 verses — moderately common. Debuting at Genesis 8:8, it then recurs through the corpus. Related forms include קל, קלל and קללה. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7043 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 →
- 79
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 79 distinct verses.
- 22 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 22 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #487
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 487 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 79 occurrences in the concordance →
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 79 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 42 verses · 53%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 21 verses · 27%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 16 verses · 20%
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: Curse 8×, Cursed 8×, Are swifter 4×
- American Standard Version: Cursed 6×, Are swifter 4×, Curse 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Curse 8×, Are swifter 4×, Curse you 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Curse 6×, And 4×, Cursed 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7043 across 82 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 47 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7043 across 81 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 51 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7043 across 82 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 49 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7043 across 99 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 53 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
20 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Pual (the passive of Piel) and one or more reduplicated stems (the Pōlēl/Pilpēl type), which for hollow or geminate roots behave much like Piel — often intensive or iterative.
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 20 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. 2 ms. קַלּוֹתָ Na 1:14; 1 s. קַלֹּתִי Jb 40:4; 3 pl. קַלּוּ Gn 8:11 +; Impf. 3 fs. וַתֵּקַל 16:4; 1 s. וָאֵקֵל v 5; 3 mpl. יֵקָֽ֑לּוּ 1 S 2:30;— e.g. Nahum 1:14
- 1. be slight, of water, be abated, from off (מֵעַל) earth Gn 8:3, 11 (J). e.g. Genesis 8:3
- 2. be swift, c. מִן comp., of warriors 2 S 1:23, horses Je 4:13; Hb 1:8; one’s days Jb 7:6; 9:25. e.g. 2 Samuel 1:23
- 3. trifling, i.e. of little account, of pers. Gn 16:4, 5 (J; both c. בְּעֵינֶיהָ); 1 S 2:30; Na 1:4; Jb 40:4. e.g. Genesis 16:4
Niphal
- Pf. 3 ms. נָקֵל (Ges§ 67 times) 2 K 20:10 +, וְנָקַל consec. 2 K 3:18; נָקָ֑ל Pr 14:6; 1 s. consec. וּנְקַלֹּתִי 2 S 6:22; Impf. 3 mpl. יִקַּ֫לּוּ Is 30:16; Pt. f. (עַל־)נְקַלָּה Je 6:14 + 2 times;— e.g. 2 Kings 20:10
- 1. shew oneself swift Is 30:16 (‖ עַל־קַל נִרְכָּ֑ב). e.g. Isaiah 30:16
- 2. appear trifling, 1 S 18:23 (בְּעֵינֵיכֶם; Inf. subj., cf. Dr), c. מִן comp. be too trifling Is 49:6, especially of sin 1 K 16:31 (Inf. subj.), and (c. מִן comp.) Ez 8:17; easy 2 K 3:18 (בְּעֵנַי), 20:10 (c. Inf.), Pr 14:6; Pt. (as subst.) c. עַל in adv. phr. עַל־נְקַלָּה lightly i.e. superficially, Je 6:14; 8:11. e.g. 1 Samuel 18:23
- 3. be lightly esteemed 2 S 6:22 (‖ שָׁפָל; opp. אִכָּכֵ֑דָה). e.g. 2 Samuel 6:22
Piel
- Pf. 3 ms. קִלֵּל 2 S 19:22 +, etc.; Impf. יְקַלֵּל Lv 20:9 +, etc.; Imv. ms. קַלֵּל 2 S 16:10; Inf. cstr. קַלֵּל Gn 8:21 Jos 24:9, etc.; Pt. מְקַלֵּל Ex 21:17 +; sf. כֻּלֹּה מקללוני Je 15:10, read מְקַלְלַוְנִי! (Baer); err. for כֻּלְּהֶם קִלְלוּנִי JDMich Gf Gie Du al., etc.;—curse (prop. make contemptible): e.g. 2 Samuel 19:22
- 1. c. acc. pers. homin. Ex 21:17 (E), Gn 12:3 (J), Lv 19:14 (H), Ju 9:27; 2 S 16:9 + 16 times; קִלְלַנִי קְלָלָה 1 K 2:8; obj. om. 2 S 16:5, 7, 10, 11, 13 ψ 62:5; 109:28 (opp. בֵּרַךְ); acc. pers. + ב of oath 1 S 17:43; 2 K 2:24; c. ב of oath alone Is 8:21. e.g. Exodus 21:17
- 2. c. acc. dei Ex 22:27 (E), Lv 24:15 (H), 1 S 3:13 (reading אֱלֹהִים for לָהֶם, 𝔊 Comm.), + (obj. om.) Lv 24:11, 14, 23. e.g. Exodus 22:27
- 3. c. acc. rei Gn 8:21 (י׳ subj.), Jb 3:1. e.g. Genesis 8:21
Pual
- Impf. 3 ms. יְקֻלָּ֑ל Is 65:20 be cursed by death; 3 fs. תְּקֻלַּל Jb 24:18 their portion is cursed; Pt. pl. sf. מְקֻלָּלָיו ψ 37:22 those cursed by him (opp. מְבֹרָכָיו). e.g. Isaiah 65:20
Hiphil
- Pf. 3 ms. הֵקַל Is 8:23; 2 ms. sf. הֱקִלֹּתַנִי 2 S 19:44 (van d. H. הֲ-); 3 pl. הֵקַלּוּ Ez 22:7; Impf. 3 ms. יָקֵל 1 S 6:5; Imv. ms. הָקֵל Ex 18:22 +; Inf. cstr. id., Is 23:9 Jon 1:5;— e.g. Isaiah 8:23
- 1. make light, lighten, יָקֵל אֶת־יָדוֹ מֵעֲלֵיכֶם 1 S 6:5 he will lighten his hand from upon you; c. מֵעַל pers. alone, make light from upon one, lighten one’s burden Ex 18:22 (E), Jon 1:5; 1 K 12:10 = 2 Ch 10:10; + מִן partit. 1 K 12:4, 9 = 2 Ch 10:4, 9. e.g. 1 Samuel 6:5
- 2. treat with contempt, acc. pers. 2 S 19:44; Is 23:9; Ez 22:7; dir. caus. bring contempt, dishonour Is 8:23 (opp. הִכְבִּיד). e.g. 2 Samuel 19:44
Pilp
- Pf. 3 ms.
- 1. shake קִלְקַל בַּחִצִּים Ez 21:26 (in divination). e.g. Ezekiel 21:26
- 2. (peculiarly) whet Ec 10:10 (proposes move quickly to and fro). e.g. Ecclesiastes 10:10
Hithpalp
- reflex. of 1: Pf. 3 pl. הִתְקַלְקָ֑לוּ Je 4:24 hills shook themselves, shook. e.g. Jeremiah 4:24
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. be slight, swift, trifling (prob. orig. be light; NH [קָלַל], קַל, קִלֵּל = BH; Assyrian ḳalálu ii. despise, dishonour; so Tel Am (appar. Canaanism); Arabic قَلَّ be small, scanty; Sab. קללם scanty Hal 143, 8 f. (cf. FellZMG liv (1900), 246); Ethiopic ቀለለ: be light, small, easy; ii. despise; 𝔗 קְלַל, Syriac ܩܰܠ, = BH; also (v. Pilp., etc.) Arabic قَلْقَلَ shake, ቈልቈለ: vibrate, whirl (of sword), ቀልቀለ: v. be shaken;—SchwallyZAW xi (1891), 170 ff. thinks shake original, v. מַקֵּל);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
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.
קָלָל
- (v. קָלִיל) a vessel, esp. the pitcher containing the ashes of the red cow. Par. III, 3; X, 3 ק׳ של חטאת the vessel containing the ashes for lustration; Tosef. ib. IX (X), 5; a. e.—Pl. קְלָלוֹת. Par. X, 4. Tosef. ib. III (II), 4 קְלִילִיּוֹת (Var. קלולי; R. S. to Par. III, 3 קילולות, corr. acc.).
קָלָל ²
- Targ. Y. Num. XIX, 9.
קָלַל
- (b. h.) [to swing] to be light, slender, unimportant.—Part. קַל. Snh. VI, 5 (ref. to קללת, Deut. XXI, 23) בזמן … קַלַּנִי מראשי וכ׳ when man suffers punishment, what does the Shekhinah say? ‘I am lighter than my head, than my arm’ (euphem. for, I feel my head heavy &c.); Y. ib. 23ᵈ bot. אנן תנינן קַלֵּינִי (= קל איני) we read ḳalleni, I am not lighter; אית תניי תני קל אני some Tannai reads ḳal ăni; מאן דאמר קליני לית הוא אלא קליל according to him that reads ḳalleni, it is a euphemistic expression for ‘light’ (i.e. my head is light, I feel giddy; my arm is light, I feel weak); מאן דאמר קלני … נטיל according to the version ḳallani, it is a euphemistic expression for ‘heavy’ (i.e. my head, my arm is heavy); Bab. ib. 46ᵇ Abbayi says כמאן דאמר קל לית (read ḳalleni) as one says, ‘light (I am) not’ (i.e. I feel heavy, without euphemism)—(which is refuted by Raba, who explains the word in question) קליל לי עלמא, v. קַלִּיל II. e.g. Deuteronomy 21:23
- , הֵקיל I) to lighten. M. Kat. 17ᵇ הכביד … מֵיקַל וכ׳ if the mourner’s hair is too heavy, he may make it lighter with a razor; Y. ib. III, 82ᵃ top. Erub. IV, 9 להָקֵל על העשיר to make it easy for the rich man; a. fr.—Trnsf. ה׳ ראשו to be irreverent, talk frivolously (v. קַלּוּת). Ber. IX, 5 לא יָקֵל אדם את ראשו כנגד וכ׳ man (a pilgrim coming to Jerusalem) must not behave irreverently in sight of the eastern gate &c. Yalk. Gen. 24 מֵיקֶלֶת ראשה she is frivolous (light-minded); Yalk. Is. 265 מֵקֶילֶת ראש; (Gen. R. s. 18 מיקרת, v. יָקַר).—2) to be lenient; to incline towards the less restrictive practice, opp. החמיר, v. חָמַר I. Y. M. Kat. l. c. הלכה כדברי מי שהוא מיקל the adopted practice follows the opinion of him who is more lenient; Erub. 46ᵃ, a. fr. כדברי המיקל וכ׳. Yeb. 88ᵃ הֵיקַלְתָּ עליה, v. חָמַר I. Pes. 52ᵇ, v. מַגִּיד. Erub. l. c. wherever you find יחיד מיקל ורבים וכ׳ an individual scholar favoring the more lenient practice against several in favor of restriction. Sabb. 129ᵃ, a. fr. ספק נפשות להָקל where there is a doubt involving the endangering of human life, the more lenient rule is applied; a. fr.—3) to be sparing, beggarly. Ib. כל המיקל … מְקִילִין לו מזוניתיו וכ׳ he that stints himself at the meal taken after blood-letting, to him they in heaven will give his sustenance stintingly; a. e.
- [to diminish,] to curse. Keth. VII, 6 מְקַלֶּלֶת, v. יִוֹלֵד. Sabb. 62ᵇ שאשתו מְקַלַּלְתּוֹ בפניו whom his wife curses in his presence. Pes. 87ᵇ (ref. to Prov. XXX, 10 sq.) אפו׳ דור שאביו יְקַלֵּל וכ׳ even if it be a generation of men that curse their father …, do not denounce &c. Yoma 75ᵃ ק׳ את הנחש וכ׳ God cursed the serpent, yet it climbs up the roof and finds its food. Sot. 11ᵃ (expl. ועלה, Ex. I, 10, as euphem. for ועלינו) כאדם שמְקַלֵּל את עצמו וכ׳ like a man that wants to curse himself (express an ill omen about himself), and hangs his curse on others. B. Bath. 88ᵇ הקב"ה בירך … וקִלְּלָן וכ׳ the Lord blessed Israel with the twenty-two letters of the alphabet (from א of אם, Lev. XXVI, 3, to ת of קוממיות, ib. 13), and cursed them with eight letters (from ו of ואם, ib. 14, to ם of נפשם, ib. 43). Snh. 70ᵃ מתוך שקלקלו … קִלְּלוֹ ברביעי because Ham injured him by (preventing his begetting) a fourth son, he (Noah) cursed him by his fourth son (Canaan). Ib. 91ᵇ כל המונע … שבמעי אמן מְקַלְּלִין אותו (not אמו) he that withholds a tradition from his pupil, even the embryos in their mother’s womb will curse him; Yalk. Prov. 947; a. fr. e.g. Proverbs 30:10
- to be cursed. Ber. 61ᵃ בתחלה נ׳ … נִתְקַלְּלָה וכ׳ the serpent was cursed first, and then Eve &c.; Gen. R. s. 20; Erub. 18ᵃ. Ib. 18ᵇ נתקללה בבל נִתְקַלְּלוּ וכ׳ when Babylon was cursed, her neighbors were cursed. Bekh. 8ᵃ אם מבהמה נתקללה וכ׳ if she (Eve) was cursed (with prolonged pregnancy) more than cattle &c. Ib. נ׳ הוא … אחת לשבע it (the serpent) was cursed seven times more than certain cattle. Ib. נ׳ הוא מחיה (not נתקלקל); a. fr.—[Tosef. Sot. II, 3 ניקללה ניוולה, Var. ניקל, read: ניקתה בניוולה, v. נָקָה Nif.]
קְלַל
- 1. to be light; to be of light esteem. Targ. O. Gen. XVI, 4, sq.
- 2. to be reduced. Ib. VIII, 8; 11 קַלּוּ ed. Berl. (ed. Vien. קַלִּיאוּ).
- to be reduced. Targ. Y. ib.
- 1. (denom. of (denom. of קַלִּיל) to be quick, to pass swiftly. Targ. Job VII, 6; IX, 25.
- 2. to make light; trnsf. to ease, relieve. Pesik. B’shall., p. 93ᵃ קַלֵּיל גרמך וכ׳ make thyself light of weight, or I will throw thee off.—Y. Kidd. II, 62ᵈ bot. הוון מחמרין וק׳ עליהון they were strict in their practice, and he lightened their burden (allowed them what they considered forbidden). Y. M. Kat. III, 82ᵃ הן דהוינן סברין דו מְקַלְּלָה חמר he whom we thought to be lenient made it stricter; a. e.—[Yalk. Gen. 133 ומקללה בשוק, v. קְלַק.]
- 1. to disregard, dishonor; also to curse. Targ. Ex. XXII, 27 (v. קִיל II). Targ. Ps. LV, 13 (h. text חרף); a. e.—Y. Bicc. III, 65ᵈ top ר׳ מני מֵיקיל לאילין וכ׳ R. M. spoke with disrespect of those that get appointments to office for money; Midr. Sam. ch. VII ר׳ אמי הוה מֵקֵיל (or מַקֵּיל). Y. Dem. I, 22ᵃ top, v. קִיל II. Y. Peah VIII, 21ᵃ אַקְלוּנָךְ they cursed thee; a. e.
- 2. to relieve, to favor the more lenient rule. Targ. Ex. XVIII, 22 (some ed. O. וְיִקְלוּן, read וְיַ׳). Targ. I Kings XII, 4; 9.—Erub. 46ᵃ באבילות הוא דאַקִּילוּ וכ׳ (or דַּאֲקִילוּ) only as to mourning ceremonies the Rabbis adopt the more lenient rules. Yeb. 88ᵃ ולא לֵיקֵיל, or חֲמַר I; a. fr.—V. קַלְקֵל.
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 73 distinct written forms H7043 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 13 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7043, 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.
Derived from this word
- קל qal H7031 swift
- קלל qâlâl H7044 burnished
- קללה qᵉlâlâh H7045 curse
- קלקל qᵉlôqêl H7052 contemptible
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 73 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 79 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 8:8
- Exodus 18:22
- Leviticus 19:14
- Deuteronomy 23:4
- Joshua 24:9
- Judges 9:27
- 1 Samuel 2:30
- 2 Samuel 1:23
- 1 Kings 2:8
- 2 Kings 2:24
- 2 Chronicles 10:4
- Job 3:1
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
