Slinger
קַלָּעStrong’s H7051qalla (qal-la)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Qalla is the Hebrew word usually translated “slingers”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.”
Meaning
- Slinger
How it's translated
- the slingers 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
קַלָּע qalla · slinger
slinger
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “slinger” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SLING'ER, noun
One who slings or uses the sling.
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.