kala · sling

What it means

kala (קָלַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sling”.

Hurl stones with a sling; also carve (in 1 Kings 6).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To cut figures in wood.
2. To hurl stones with a strap; cast far away.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• he carved ×3
• am slinging out ×1
• could sling ×1
• he will sling out ×1
• slung it ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×3
• Jeremiah×1

• Judges 20:16

  Of all this people there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed; every one of these could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.

• 1 Samuel 17:49

  David stretched out his hand to the bag and took from there a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.

• 1 Samuel 25:29

  Though a man has risen to pursue you and to seek your life, yet the life of my lord will be bound in the bundle of the living with YHWH your Elohim; but the lives of your enemies he will sling out from within the hollow of the sling.

• 1 Kings 6:29

  And all the walls of the house all around he carved with engravings of carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.

• 1 Kings 6:32

  And the two doors were of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and he spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.

• 1 Kings 6:35

  And he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold fitted over what was incised.

• Jeremiah 10:18

  For thus says YHWH: “Look, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress on them, so that they may find it.”