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Meaning and etymology of the name Calah
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Calah 
Calah is the Great City, built by Nimrod.
"The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. From that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah, and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city." - Genesis 10:10-12
The name Calah is a transliteration of an Assyrian name. But spelled the way it is, it looks a lot like the assumed root  (klh) of the identical Hebrew word (kelah), meaning firm or rugged, as used in Job 5:26 and 30:2 (New American Standard read vigor).
Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names goes after the Hebrew root  (kala) meaning to bring a process to completion. A derived noun, spelled the same, means full end. But note that the name of the city ends with a heth, while the verb ends with a he, and that makes a lot of difference.
Another possibility is a combination of the common Hebrew particle  (ke), as, like, as if, and the word  (lah 1102a), moist, fresh, new. Combined would yield the meaning As New.
To a Hebrew audience the name Calah would mean Vigor, and may remind some people here and there of Completion and even As New.
Neither NOBS Study Bible Name List nor BDB Theological Dictionary translate this name. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names reads Old Age, Completion.
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