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Genesis 45:11 וְכִלְכַּלְתִּ֤י and I will provide for

And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’

Genesis 47:12 וַיְכַלְכֵּ֤ל and he provided for

Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families.

Genesis 50:21 אֲכַלְכֵּ֥ל I will provide for

Therefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” So Joseph reassured his brothers and spoke kindly to them.

Ruth 4:15 וּלְכַלְכֵּ֖ל and to sustain

He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”

2 Samuel 19:32 כִלְכַּ֤ל he had supplied

Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.

2 Samuel 19:33 וְכִלְכַּלְתִּ֥י and I will supply

The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you at my side in Jerusalem.”

2 Samuel 20:3 וַֽיְכַלְכְּלֵ֔ם and he sustained them

When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.

1 Kings 4:7 וְכִלְכְּל֥וּ לְכַלְכֵּֽל׃ ס and they supplied, to supply

Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year,

1 Kings 4:27 וְכִלְכְּלוּ֩ and they supplied

Each month the governors in turn provided food for King Solomon and all who came to his table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking.

1 Kings 7:26 יָכִֽיל׃ פ it contained

It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.

1 Kings 7:38 יָכִ֣יל׀ it contained

He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.

1 Kings 8:27 יְכַלְכְּל֔וּךָ they contain you

But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

Here: 'They (do not) hold you.' The picture is a container failing to hold its contents. Just before this (7:26, 38), the same root measures how much water the bronze basins of this temple held. Even the cosmos is too small a vessel for God.

1 Kings 8:64 מֵֽהָכִיל֙ for containing

On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.

1 Kings 17:4 לְכַלְכֶּלְךָ֖ to supply you

And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

Here: "To keep you supplied." This doubled form of the verb means providing someone's food and keep over a period of time, as Joseph did for his family in Egypt. It is more than "feed you once": it is ongoing upkeep, and v. 6 shows it was twice a day.

1 Kings 17:9 לְכַלְכְּלֶֽךָ׃ to supply you

“Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”

Here: 'To sustain you'. An intensive form of the verb, meaning to keep someone supplied with food and the necessities of life over time. It is the same word as for the ravens in v. 4, and it comes back in 18:4, 13, where Obadiah supplies the hidden prophets with bread and water.

1 Kings 18:4 וְכִלְכְּלָ֖ם and he supplied them

for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)

Here: A strong form of the verb meaning to provide for or keep alive. The change of verb form from the chain before it suggests repeated, continuing action: he kept them supplied over time.

1 Kings 18:13 וָאֲכַלְכְּלֵ֖ם and I supplied them

Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD, fifty men per cave, and I provided them with food and water.

1 Kings 20:27 וְכָלְכְּל֔וּ and they were supplied

The Israelites also mobilized, gathered supplies, and marched out to meet them. The Israelites camped before them like two small flocks of goats, while the Arameans covered the countryside.

2 Chronicles 2:6 יְכַלְכְּלֻ֑הוּ they will contain him

But who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain Him? Who then am I, that I should build a house for Him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before Him?

Here: An intensive form meaning 'hold, contain, take in'. The imperfect tense, together with the negative, states what is generally true: the heavens never contain him. It repeats Solomon's words at the dedication in 1 Kings 8:27 and 2 Chronicles 6:18.

2 Chronicles 4:5 יָכִֽיל׃ ס it contained

It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold three thousand baths.

2 Chronicles 6:18 יְכַלְכְּל֔וּךָ they will contain you

But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

Here: "They (cannot) hold you," as a container holds its contents. The verb is used for what a vessel can take in. The doubled form of the root means holding something fully, or keeping it supplied.

2 Chronicles 7:7 לְהָכִ֛יל to contain

Then Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar he had made could not hold all these offerings.

Nehemiah 9:21 כִּלְכַּלְתָּ֥ם you sustained them

For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

Here: A doubled verb form, 'you kept them supplied', that means providing food and provisions to someone who cannot provide for himself. It is the word for Joseph feeding his family through the famine (Gen 45:11; 50:21). Addressed to God: 'You', with 'them' as the people dependent on him.

Psalm 55:22 יְכַ֫לְכְּלֶ֥ךָ he will sustain you

Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.

Here: 'He will sustain you.' This verb form means to supply someone's needs, especially food. It is the word for Joseph feeding his family through the famine. The promise is practical provision and upkeep, not only emotional support.

Psalm 112:5 יְכַלְכֵּ֖ל he maintains

It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.

Here: An intensive, repeated-syllable form meaning to hold up, keep going or provide for. It is the verb used for Joseph feeding his family. Here: he keeps his affairs on their feet and in order, or he holds up his case. The verb form can point to the future or to habit.

Proverbs 18:14 יְכַלְכֵּ֣ל it will endure

The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?

Here: A doubled, intensive form of a verb meaning 'hold, contain'. It is the verb used when Joseph 'provides for' his family and in 'he will sustain you' (Psalm 55:22). The spirit holds the sickness in and carries the person through it. The imperfect tense states what normally happens: it 'will' or 'can' hold up.

Isaiah 40:12 וְכָ֥ל and has he contained?

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?

Here: 'Has held', meaning measured by capacity, the way a measuring vessel holds a fixed amount. The supplied gloss 'to sustain' comes from another stem of this root. Here the sense is containing.

Jeremiah 2:13 יָכִ֖לוּ they contain

“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Here: 'Hold'. The same verb describes the temple basin that 'held two thousand baths' (1 Kgs 7:26). A cistern's whole purpose is to hold, and these fail at it.

Jeremiah 6:11 הָכִ֔יל to hold [it] in

But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.

Here: 'Of containing [it]'. This is the verb used for a basin or cistern holding water, so the picture is a vessel straining to keep its contents in.

Jeremiah 10:10 יָכִ֥לוּ they will endure

But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.

Here: Literally "they cannot hold or contain", the way a vessel holds a liquid. The exact same form is used in Jer 2:13 for broken cisterns "that cannot hold water". The nations are too small a container for God's indignation.

Jeremiah 20:9 כַּֽלְכֵ֖ל to hold [it] in

If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

Here: 'Holding [it] in, containing.' The verb is used for a vessel holding its contents. Jeremiah is a container straining to hold what is too hot and too big for him.

Ezekiel 21:28 לְהָכִ֖יל to contain

Now prophesy, son of man, and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt: ‘A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning—

Ezekiel 23:32 לְהָכִֽיל׃ to contain

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.

Joel 2:11 יְכִילֶֽנּוּ׃ will he endure it

The LORD raises His voice in the presence of His army. Indeed, His camp is very large, for mighty are those who obey His command. For the Day of the LORD is great and very dreadful. Who can endure it?

Here: 'Can hold it / endure it.' 'It' is the Day. The verb pictures a container holding something in: no one has the capacity to take this day in and survive it.

Amos 7:10 לְהָכִ֖יל to endure

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words,

Here: "To contain/hold": the verb used for a vessel holding liquid or the heavens holding God. The land is pictured as a container about to overflow or burst.

Zechariah 11:16 יְכַלְכֵּ֔ל he will sustain

For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.

Here: To keep alive with food and provision. The same verb is used of Joseph feeding his family in famine (Gen 45:11; 47:12) and of the ravens feeding Elijah (1 Kgs 17:4). He withholds even basic feeding.

Malachi 3:2 מְכַלְכֵּל֙ [will] endure

But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.

Here: An intensive participle, 'is holding up under'. The verb means to hold or contain something, or to bear it up. The picture is of something too heavy to carry or too large to hold. Who can take the weight of that day?