To sling
קָלַעStrong’s H7049qala (qa-la)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qala is the Hebrew word usually translated “carved”, “slinging” and “slung”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.”
Meaning
- To sling, hurl forth(Qal) · (Piel) to sling
- (Qal) to carve
How it's translated
- and he carved 2
- slinging 1
- and he slung 1
- he will sling out it 1
- he carved 1
- about to hurl forth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 3
- 1 Samuel 2
- Judges 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 17:49And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
- 1 Samuel 25:29Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
- 1 Kings 6:29And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
- 1 Kings 6:32The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
- 1 Kings 6:35And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
- Jeremiah 10:18For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
Hebrew dictionary
קָלַע qala · to sling
1) to sling, hurl forth 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to sling 1a2) slinger (participle) 1b) (Piel) to sling
קָלַע qala · to carve
(Qal) to carve
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sling” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SLING, noun
- An instrument for throwing stones, consisting of a strap and two strings; the stone being lodged in the strap, is thrown by losing one of the strings With a sling and a stone David killed Goliath.
- A throw; a stroke.
- A kind of hanging bandage put round the neck, in which a wounded limb is sustained.
- A rope by which a cask or bale is suspended and swung in or out of a ship
All definitions and other forms of “sling”
- A drink composed of equal parts of rum or spirit and water sweetened.
SLING, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive slung. [The primary sense seems to be to swing.]
- To throw with a sling
- To throw; to hurl.
- To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.
- To move or swing by a rope which suspends the thing.
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.