קָלַל H7043

Home gloss

be light (qal); make light of (piel)

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

abate; curse

Note

Split by stem (20). The waters "became light" (8:8, 11); "make light of" the ground (8:21) and of persons (12:3). Kept apart from אָרַר "curse." Shares "light" with the noun אוֹר, a declared homograph (105a). See the notes at 8:8, 21

Rulings

20, 37

Declared to share English with

H216 — verb/noun homograph from different roots: light (n.) / be light (105a)

Occurrences (4)

Genesis 8

8:8 And he sent away the dove from with him, to see whether the waters had become light from on the face of the ground.
8:11 And the dove came to him at the time of evening, and look, a leaf of olive, torn, in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had become light from on the land.
8:21 And smelled the restful scent, and said to his heart, "I will not add to make light of the ground again for the sake of the human, for the shaping of the heart of the human is bad from his youth; and I will not add again to strike every living thing, as I have done.

Genesis 12

12:3 And I will bless those blessing you, and the one making light of you I will curse; and in you shall be blessed all the clans of the ground."