Kelal was one of the Israelites listed in Ezra 10:30 who had married foreign women during the exile period and were required to send them away as part of Ezra's reforms. He is mentioned without any additional identifying information beyond his name. The name appears in a long list of those who had compromised the community's covenant identity through intermarriage. The Septuagint renderings show typical variation in how Greek scribes transliterated Hebrew names.