Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

Meseems that תכלית TAKLIYT = TA-KL-IYT is of the root כל כלה כלל KLL, 'encompass, include', with the initial personal pronoun TA = ATAH אתה and the trailing combined personal pronoun IYT, all for the thing itself. Hence, TAKLIYT signifies here 'total, full, complete, consummate, perfect, general, entire, whole, conclusive, inclusive, all-embracing, all-encompassing.

The root KLL is a variant of 

גלל, הלל, חלל, כלל, קלל

GLL, HLL, XLL, KLL, QLL

In today's spoken Hebrew TAKLIYT came to mean 'goal, end, ultimate purpose'.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Nov 3, 2012, at 12:40 AM, Mike Burke wrote:

What I'm interested in at the moment is the range of meaning of the word "Takliyth" (used in Psalm 139:22.)