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    Bible Name Meaning Tool

    Enter a name to see what it means in Scripture, the language it comes from, and the King James Version verses where it appears. 1,332 names searchable, free and without signup.

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    Calla

    Pronounced KAL-uh

    girl
    ✓ In the King James Bible (spelled Calah) — Yes — Calla (spelled Calah in the King James Bible) appears in the King James Bible; the passages below give the context.
    Meaning
    "Beautiful; Most beautiful"
    Origin
    Greek

    Calla is beauty itself — the loveliness Scripture attributes to holiness. 'Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.' Calla is not surface appeal but the deep beauty of a life set apart for God.

    Spiritual meaning

    Calla is the beauty of holiness — the loveliness of worship, the single desire to behold God's beauty all the days of life.

    Related verses (KJV)

    • "Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness."

      1 Chronicles 16:29 (KJV) →

    • "One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD."

      Psalm 27:4 (KJV) →
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