Biblical Hebrew

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hebrew #3625 - כֶּלַח Kelach (a city in Assyr)


Original Word:כֶּלַח
Transliteration: Kelach
Definition:a city in Assyr
Part of Speech:Proper Name Location
Phonetic Spelling:(keh'-lakh)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Kelach, a place in Assyria

The same as kelach; Kelach, a place in Assyria:

see HEBREW kelach


Englishman's Concordance

Calah=“vigour”
1) one of the most ancient cities of Assyria; maybe modern ‘Nimrud’ located at the confluence of the Tigris and Zab rivers
Part of Speech: noun proper locative
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: the same as H3624

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. [כֶּ֫לַח], כָּ֑לַחproper name, of a locationcity in AssyriaGenesis 10:11,12 kal—u, SchrCOT on the passage DlPar 261, modern Nimrûd, at northeast angle of Upper Zab and Tigris (see Billerbeck u. Jeremias BASiii. 1895, 130 ff.)

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3625. כָּ֫לַח (Kelach) — 2 Occurrences

Genesis 10:11
HEB:עִ֖יר וְאֶת־ כָּֽלַח׃
NAS: Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah,
KJV: and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
INT: and Rehoboth-Ir and the city and Calah

Genesis 10:12
HEB:נִֽינְוֵ֖ה וּבֵ֣ין כָּ֑לַח הִ֖וא הָעִ֥יר
NAS: Nineveh and Calah; that is the great
KJV: between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a great
INT: Nineveh between and Calah he city

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