Hebrew Strong's Lexicon

H7043

Language: 🇧🇶 Papiamentu 🇬🇧 English

Lemma: קָלַל

Transliteration: kaw-lal'

Definition: a primitive root; to be (causatively, make) light, literally (swift, small, sharp, etc.) or figuratively (easy, trifling, vile, etc.)

KJV Definition: abate, make bright, bring into contempt, (ac-)curse, despise, (be) ease(-y, -ier), (be a, make, make somewhat, move, seem a, set) light(-en, -er, -ly, -ly afflict, -ly esteem, thing), X slight(-ly), be swift(-er), (be, be more, make, re-)vile, whet

Verse usage

  • 1 Samuel 6:5 NASB
    "So you shall make likenesses of your tumors and likenesses of your mice that ravage the land, and you shall give glory to the God of Israel; perhaps He will ease His hand from you, your gods, and your land.
  • 1 Samuel 17:43 NASB
    The Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
  • 1 Samuel 18:23 NASB
    So Saul's servants spoke these words to David. But David said, "Is it trivial in your sight to become the king's son-in-law, since I am a poor man and lightly esteemed?"
  • 2 Samuel 1:23 NASB
    "Saul and Jonathan, beloved and pleasant in their life, And in their death they were not parted; They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger than lions.
  • 2 Samuel 6:22 NASB
    "I will be more lightly esteemed than this and will be humble in my own eyes, but with the maids of whom you have spoken, with them I will be distinguished."
  • 2 Samuel 16:5 NASB
    When King David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out from there a man of the family of the house of Saul whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he came out cursing continually as he came.
  • 2 Samuel 16:7 NASB
    Thus Shimei said when he cursed, "Get out, get out, you man of bloodshed, and worthless fellow!
  • 2 Samuel 16:9 NASB
    Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over now and cut off his head."
  • 2 Samuel 16:10 NASB
    But the king said, "What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses, and if the LORD has told him, 'Curse David,' then who shall say, 'Why have you done so?'"
  • 2 Samuel 16:11 NASB
    Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, "Behold, my son who came out from me seeks my life; how much more now this Benjamite? Let him alone and let him curse, for the LORD has told him.
  • 2 Samuel 16:13 NASB
    So David and his men went on the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside parallel with him and as he went he cursed and cast stones and threw dust at him.
  • 2 Samuel 19:21 NASB
    But Abishai the son of Zeruiah said, "Should not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD'S anointed?"
  • 2 Samuel 19:43 NASB
    But the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, "We have ten parts in the king, therefore we also have more [claim] on David than you. Why then did you treat us with contempt? Was it not our advice first to bring back our king?" Yet the words of the men of Judah were harsher than the words of the men of Israel.
  • 1 Reinan 2:8 NASB
    "Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera the Benjamite, of Bahurim; now it was he who cursed me with a violent curse on the day I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD, saying, 'I will not put you to death with the sword.'
  • 1 Reinan 12:4 NASB
    "Your father made our yoke hard; now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you."
  • 1 Reinan 12:9 NASB
    So he said to them, "What counsel do you give that we may answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, 'Lighten the yoke which your father put on us'?"
  • 1 Reinan 12:10 NASB
    The young men who grew up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall say to this people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, now you make it lighter for us!' But you shall speak to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins!
  • 1 Reinan 16:31 NASB
    It came about, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went to serve Baal and worshiped him.
  • 2 Reinan 2:24 NASB
    When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number.
  • 2 Reinan 3:18 NASB
    'This is but a slight thing in the sight of the LORD; He will also give the Moabites into your hand.