כֶּלַח

«כֶּלַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: Calah — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

Used: 2 times · Key: 3625 · BDB: כֶּ֫לַח²

Glosses

Calah (2)

Meaning (OSHB)

Calah tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.pr.loc. city in Assyria Gn 10:11, 12 = Assyrian Kalḫu, SchrCOT ad loc. DlPar 261, mod. Nimrûd, at NE. angle of Upper Zab and Tigris (v. Billerbeck u. Jeremias BASiii. 1895, 130 ff.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «כֶּלַח» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Genesis 10:12

וְֽאֶת־רֶ֔סֶן בֵּ֥ין נִֽינְוֵ֖ה וּבֵ֣ין כָּ֑לַח הִ֖וא הָעִ֥יר הַגְּדֹלָֽה׃

Word for word: and (et) Resen between Nineveh and between Calah that [is].the city (the) great

JPS 1917: and Resen between Nineveh and Calah — the same is the great city.

Genesis 10:11

מִן־הָאָ֥רֶץ הַהִ֖וא יָצָ֣א אַשּׁ֑וּר וַיִּ֙בֶן֙ אֶת־נִ֣ינְוֵ֔ה וְאֶת־רְחֹבֹ֥ת עִ֖יר רְחֹבֹ֥ת עִ֖יר וְאֶת־כָּֽלַח׃

Word for word: from the land (the) that he.went.forth Assyria and he.built (et) Nineveh and (et) Rehoboth-Ir and (et) Calah

JPS 1917: Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah,

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