sakal · stone

What it means

sakal (סָקַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stone”.

To death; also clear a field of stones.

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 pelt someone with rocks, or kill them so.
2. To clear the stones from a field or a road to prepare it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• stone ×7
• He threw ×2
• shall be stoned ×2
• shall surely be stoned ×2
• Remove ×1
• be stoned ×1
• cleared it of stones ×1
• had been stoned ×1
• has been stoned ×1
• he shall surely ×1
• others ×3

Where it appears

• Exodus×8
• Deuteronomy×4
• Joshua×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×4
• Isaiah×2

• Exodus 8:26

  But Moses said, “It is not right to do so, for what we sacrifice to YHWH our Elohim is an abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice what is an abomination to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?

• Exodus 17:4

  Moses cried out to YHWH, saying, “What shall I do with this people? A little more and they will stone me.”

• Exodus 19:13

  No hand shall touch him, for he shall surely be stoned or surely shot with arrows; whether animal or man, he shall not live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast, they shall go up on the mountain.”

• Exodus 21:28

  When an ox gores a man or a woman and the person dies, the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be clear.

• Exodus 21:29

  But if an ox has been given to goring in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.

• Exodus 21:32

  If the ox gores a male slave or a female slave, he shall give thirty shekels of silver to his master, and the ox shall be stoned.

• Deuteronomy 13:10

  You shall stone him with stones so that he dies, because he sought to drag you away from YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.

• Deuteronomy 17:5

  then you shall bring out that man or that woman who have done this evil thing to your gates, the man or the woman, and you shall stone them with stones so that they die.

• Deuteronomy 22:21

  then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by prostituting herself in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• Deuteronomy 22:24

  then you shall bring out both of them to the gate of that city and stone them with stones so that they die: the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he humiliated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• Joshua 7:25

  And Joshua said, “Why have you brought ruin on us? YHWH will bring ruin on you this day.” And all Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.

• 1 Samuel 30:6

  David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was bitter, each for his sons and for his daughters. But David strengthened himself in YHWH his Elohim.

• 2 Samuel 16:6

  He threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right and on his left.

• 2 Samuel 16:13

  David and his men went along the road, and Shimei was going along the side of the hill opposite him, cursing as he went, and he threw stones opposite him and threw dust.

• 1 Kings 21:10

  and seat two men, perverse men, opposite him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You have cursed Elohim and the king’; then take him out and stone him, and let him die.”

• 1 Kings 21:13

  And the two men, perverse men, came in and sat opposite him; and the perverse men testified against Naboth before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed Elohim and the king.” So they took him out outside the city and stoned him with stones, and he died.

• 1 Kings 21:14

  Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned and is dead.”

• 1 Kings 21:15

  And it happened, when Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, “Get up, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for silver; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

• Isaiah 5:2

  He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a tower in its midst and also hewed out a winepress in it; and he waited for it to produce grapes, but it produced sour grapes.

• Isaiah 62:10

  Pass through, pass through the gates! Clear the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones! Lift up a banner over the peoples!

And 2 more times.