Psalm 37/Notes/Lexical.v. 20.245482

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SDBH defines כָּלוּ as "literally: to finish; hence: = process by which humans and objects completely disappear from existence." The literal gloss "be finished" works well in the context, since the word (emphatically repeated) also signals that the first half of the psalm is finished (cf. כָּלוּ in Ps 72:20; cf. the use of אבד "come to an end" as the last word of Ps 1).