tul · hurl, cast down

What it means

tul (טוּל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hurl, cast down”.

To hurl, to throw with force; also to cast out or bring down.

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 throw something or someone far away, with a swing of the arm or with force.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• hurled ×7
• I will hurl you ×2
• I will hurl ×1
• cast ×1
• hurl me ×1
• laid low ×1
• will hurl you away ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×1
• Jonah×4

• 1 Samuel 18:11

  Saul hurled the spear and said, “I will strike David and the wall.” But David turned aside from before him twice.

• 1 Samuel 20:33

  Saul hurled the spear at him to strike him, and Jonathan knew that it was decided on the part of his father to put to death David.

• Job 41:9

  Look, the hope for it is false; is one not even at the sight of it laid low?

• Psalms 37:24

  When he falls, he will not be hurled down, for YHWH sustains his hand.

• Proverbs 16:33

  Into the lap the lot is cast, but from YHWH comes every decision of it.

• Isaiah 22:17

  Look, YHWH will hurl you away with a hurling, man, and will wrap you up in a wrapping;

• Jeremiah 16:13

  So I will hurl you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will not give you clemency.’

• Jeremiah 22:26

  And I will hurl you and your mother who bore you into another land, where you were not born, and there you will die.

• Jeremiah 22:28

  Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered vessel, or an object in which there is no delight? Why have they been hurled out, he and his offspring, and cast into the land that they have not known?

• Ezekiel 32:4

  And I will leave you on the land, on the face of the field I will hurl you, and I will make all the birds of the heavens settle on you, and I will satisfy with you the animals of all the earth.

• Jonah 1:4

  But YHWH hurled a great wind on the sea, and there was a great storm on the sea, and the ship was about to break up.

• Jonah 1:5

  And the sailors were afraid, and they cried out, each to his god, and they hurled the objects that were in the ship into the sea to lighten the load for themselves. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the vessel and had lain down and was sound asleep.

• Jonah 1:12

  He said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea, and the sea will calm down and leave you; for I know that because of me this great storm has come on you.”

• Jonah 1:15

  Then they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its fury.