Strong H70492 sensesקָלַע
to sling · to carve
- Transliteration
- qâla‛
- Pronunciation
- kaw-lah'
The 2 senses of Strong H7049
The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H7049 appears in 7 verses of the KJV, all senses together.
General definition
A primitive root; to sling; also to carve (as if a circular {motion} or into light forms): - {carve} sling (out).
In the Bible
Translated in the KJV by
- carve3
- sling3
- slang1
First verses
- Judges 20:16Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
- 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.