# כָּלָא (kala)

Israeli respelling: ka-la. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3607. 17 Old Testament occurrences.

to restrict, by act (hold back or in) or word (prohibit)

King James renderings: finish, forbid, keep (back), refrain, restrain, retain, shut up, be stayed, withhold.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/kala-h3607

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 8:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/8/2) — The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
- [Genesis 23:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Exodus 36:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 f…
- [Numbers 11:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [1 Samuel 6:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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:
- [1 Samuel 25:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 o…
- [Psalms 40:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/9) — I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
- [Psalms 40:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/11) — Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
- [Psalms 88:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/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.
- [Psalms 119:101](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/101) — I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
- [Ecclesiastes 8:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Isaiah 43:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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;
- [Jeremiah 32:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 k…
- [Jeremiah 32:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ci…
- [Ezekiel 31:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 fl…
- [Daniel 9:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/9/24) — Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make r…
- [Haggai 1:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/haggai/1/10) — Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.