To stone
סָקַלStrong’s H5619saqal (sa-qal)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Saqal is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will be stoned to death”, “certainly” and “stoned”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?”
Meaning
- To stone (to death), put to death by stoning(Qal) to pelt with stones, stone to death · (Niphal) to be stoned to death · (Piel) · (Pual) to be stoned to death
How it's translated
- it will be stoned to death 3
- certainly 2
- and he stoned 2
- will they stone us 1
- and they will stone me 1
- he will be stoned to death 1
- and you will stone him 1
- and you will stone them 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 6
- Deuteronomy 4
- 1 Kings 4
- 2 Samuel 2
- Isaiah 2
- Joshua 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 17:4And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
- Exodus 19:13There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
- Exodus 21:28If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
- Exodus 21:29But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
- Exodus 21:32If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
- Deuteronomy 13:10And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Hebrew dictionary
סָקַל saqal · to stone
1) to stone (to death), put to death by stoning 1a) (Qal) to pelt with stones, stone to death 1b) (Niphal) to be stoned to death 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to stone, pelt with stones 1c2) to free from stones (of vineyard, highway) 1d) (Pual) to be stoned to death
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stone” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STONE, noun
[Gr.]
- A concretion of some species of earth, as lime, silex, clay and the like, usually in combination with some species of air or gas, with sulphur or with a metallic substance; a hard compact body, of any form and size.
- A gem; a precious stone
- Any thing made of stone; a mirror.
- A calculous concretion in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
All definitions and other forms of “stone”
- A testicle.
- The nut of a drupe or stone fruit; or the hard covering inclosing the kernel, and itself inclosed by the pulpy pericarp.
- In Great Britain, the weight of fourteen pounds. [8, 12, 14, or 16.] [Not used in the United States, except in reference to the riders of horses in races.]
- A monument erected to preserve the memory of the dead.
- It is used to express torpidness and insensibility; as a heart of stone
- stone is prefixed to some words to qualify their signification.
STONE, adjective
Made of stone or like stone; as a stone jug.
STONE, verb transitive
- To pelt, beat or kill with stones.“And they stoned Stephen calling on God and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit” Acts 7:59
- To harden.
- To free from stones; as, to stone raisins.
- To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.