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קָלַע

qâlaʻ · H7049 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to shoot with a slingshot

    Causative action by which someone shoots a stone at an object with the help of a slingshot

    Examples

    Judges 20:16 Out of all these people seven hundred choice men were left-handed; each one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.

    1 Samuel 17:49 And David put his hand into his bag and took from it a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead. And the stone penetrated his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.

    1 Samuel 25:29 “Should anyone rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, then the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the LORD your God; but the lives of your enemies He will sling out as from the hollow of a sling.

  2. to carve

    Causative action by which someone carves figures on wood or other material with the help of a sharp tool

    Examples

    1 Kings 6:29 Then he carved all the surrounding walls of the house with engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, for the inner and outer sanctuaries.

    1 Kings 6:32 So he made two doors of olive wood, and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he overlaid the cherubim and the palm trees with gold.

    1 Kings 6:35 He carved on it cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold plated on the carved work.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

7 occurrences in 3 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

5 occurrences in 7 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 5 groups

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
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The word means to sling, directly illustrated by the seven hundred left-handed slingers who could sling a stone at a hair without missing (Judges 20:16) and David slinging the stone that struck Goliath (1 Samuel 17:49).
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The same word also means to carve, illustrated by Solomon's carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers on the temple's walls and doors (1 Kings 6:29, 32).
Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

קָלַעqâlaʻ · H7049קֶלַע qelaʻ · H7050 · slingshot, curtain, hanging · 22×מִקְלַעַת miqlaʻath · H4734 · carving, engraving · 4×קַלָּע qallâʻ · H7051 · slinger · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7049. qala ' I. [קָלַע] verb sling, hurl forth (Thes compare Arabic sit insecurely (see…
H7049. qala
' I. [קָלַע] verb sling, hurl forth (Thes compare Arabic sit insecurely (see also Frä224, Socin in BuhlLex 13), waver, whence sail (loan-word Fräl.c.), Jewish-Aramaic קַלְעָא id., Biblical Hebrew Late Hebrew קֶלַע curtain; thence hurl, sling; but this perhaps denominative (Socl.c.) from loosened clod, compare Syriac id. (Nö in Fräl.c.); Arabic sling, Eth : id.; קְלַע ᵑ7 verb sling, Syriac noun sling); —
Qal Participle אֶלֿ בָּאֶבֶן קֹלֵעַ Jdg 20:16 one slinging (with) a stone at a hair; ׳קוֺ with accusative of person Jer 10:18 I will sling forth the inhabitants.
Pi`el Imperfect3masculine singular וַיִקַלַּע 1Sa 17:49 and he slang (that is, the stone); suffix יְקַלְּעֶנָּה 1Sa 25:29 he shall sling away (life of enemy).
II. קָלַע verb carve; —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳ק: with 2 accusative, carve walls with, 1Ki 6:29; with accusative of congnate meaning with verb + עַל 1Ki 6:32; with accusative of thing carved 1Ki 6:35.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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