Sling
קֶ֫לַעStrong’s H7050qela (qe-la)
Appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qela is the Hebrew word usually translated “curtains”, “curtains of” and “sling”. It appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament.
“The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.”
Meaning
- Sling, slingstones
- Curtain, drape, hanging
How it's translated
- curtains 9
- curtains of 6
- a sling 2
- and curtains of 1
- and sling his 1
- with the sling 1
- sling 1
- slings 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 13
- 1 Samuel 3
- Numbers 2
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Job 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 27:9And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
- Exodus 27:11And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
- Exodus 27:12And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
- Exodus 27:14The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
- Exodus 27:15And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
- Exodus 35:17The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court,
Hebrew dictionary
קֶ֫לַע qela · sling
sling, slingstones
קֶ֫לַע qela · curtain
curtain, drape, hanging
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.