Senses
1. calling, vocation — The divine act of calling or the state of being called, referring to God's summons to salvation, service, or a particular way of life. All occurrences represent the same noun klesis in various grammatical cases (nominative, genitive, accusative, dative) with no genuine semantic split. Multilingual evidence is uniform: eng 'calling / with calling,' spa 'llamamiento / llamada / con llamamiento,' hin bulaavaa / bulahat / bulahat se, arb da'wah in all clusters, kor bureusim throughout, swa wito consistently. The instrumental dative 'with calling' (S70820) is a syntactic variant, not a separate sense. 11×
AR["الدَّعوَةِ","الدَّعْوَةِ","دَعوَتَكُم","دَعوَتِكُم","دَعوَتِهِ","دَعْوَةً","دَعْوَةٍ","دَعْوَةُ","دَعْوَةِ","دَعْوَتَ"]·ben["আহ্বান","আহ্বান-র","আহ্বানে","আহ্বানের"]·DE["Berufung"]·EN["calling","of-calling","with-calling"]·FR["appel"]·heb["בְּקְרִיאָה","קְרִאָה","קְרִיאָה"]·HI["बुलअवअ","बुलअहत","बुलहत-से","बुलावा","बुलाहट","बुलाहट-के"]·ID["dengan-panggilan","panggilan","panggilanmu"]·IT["chiamata","vocazione"]·jav["panimbalan","timbalan","timbalanipun","timbalèn"]·KO["부르심","부르심-을","부르심과","부르심은","부르심의","부름"]·PT["com-vocação","de-vocação","vocação"]·RU["призвание","призванием","призвании","призвания"]·ES["con-llamamiento","de-llamamiento","llamada","llamamiento","vocación"]·SW["wenu","wito","ya-wito"]·TR["cagrilisinin","cagrinizin","cagrisinin","o-","çağrının","çağrınızı","çağrısı","çağrısının","çağrıyla"]·urd["بلاوا","بلاوے","بلاہٹ","بُلاوے","بُلاوے-کو","بُلاوے-کے","بُلاہٹ"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
κλῆσις, εως, ἡ, (καλέω) calling, call, Refs 5th c.BC+ __2 calling into court, summons, prosecution, Refs 5th c.BC+ __3 invitation to a feast, Refs 4th c.BC+ __4 invocation, θεῶνRefs 5th c.BC+ __5 calling to aid, Refs 2nd c.BC+ __6 calling in a religious sense, NT __II name, appellation, Refs 5th c.BC+by name, Refs; reputation, Refs 5th c.BC+ __III Grammars, αἱ κ. τῶν ὀνομάτων the nominatives,…