“Light and heavy” — the rabbis’ rule of “how much more”: what holds in the lesser case holds all the more in the greater
also written: kal va-chomer, kal vachomer, kal v'chomer, kal va chomer, qal vachomer, каль ва-хомер, каль ва-хо́мер
In Scripture
World English Bible
Yahweh said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn’t she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.”
Numbers 12:14The Talmud’s classic example of the argument: if a father’s rebuke means seven days, how much more God’s.
Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth; how much more the wicked and the sinner!
Proverbs 11:31A proverb built on the same step from the lesser case to the greater.
The same lexicon, opened in IsraelForYou: pick a word from the list and its card opens — script, sound, and every verse it lives in.
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Hebrew words
בטחbatach
To trust, to rely on — the settled confidence…
בטחוןbitachon
Trust, confidence — in Jewish teaching,…
קל וחמרkal va chomer
“Light and heavy” — the rabbis’ rule of “how…
אמונהemunah
Faith that acts — faithfulness, steadiness
עקדהakedah
The binding — the traditional name for…
‹ Hebrew words
קַל וָחֹמֶרkal va chomerkal va-KHO-mer
“Light and heavy” — the rabbis’ rule of “how much more”: what holds in the lesser case holds all the more in the greater
Yahweh said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn’t she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.”
Numbers 12:14
Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth; how much more the wicked and the sinner!
