קָלָהqâlâh
roast, parch
Pronunciation: kaw-law' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7033
Meanings
Qal: roasted, parched, with burning (Jeremiah 29:22; Leviticus 2:14; Joshua 5:11)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 2:14 “If you present a grain offering to the Lord from the first portion of your harvest, bring fresh grain that is coarsely ground and roasted on a fire.
- Joshua 5:11 The very next day they began to eat unleavened bread and roasted grain harvested from the land.
- Psalms 38:7 A raging fever burns within me, and my health is broken.
- Jeremiah 29:22 Their terrible fate will become proverbial, so that the Judean exiles will curse someone by saying, ‘May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned alive!’
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).