קַלָּע
slinger
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H7051 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Kings 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun קלע centers on the idea of “slinger.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. The word gravitates to 2 Kings (100%). A true hapax — its single appearance is 2 Kings 3:25. It shares a root with קלע, מקלעת and קלע. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7051 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Kings 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Thereof howbeit the slingers 1×
- American Standard Version: Thereof 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Men with slings 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Slingers 1×
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
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Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- slinger
Word origin
Derived from קלע (qâlaʻ) (H7049) — to sling.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
קָלַע I
- (b. h.) [to swing,] to cast, sling.
- same. Sabb. 152ᵇ ומְקַלְּעִין נִשְׁמָתָן זה לזה and they (the angels) cast their (the sinners’) souls to one another (like washers) (with ref. to I Sam. XXV, 29, v. זוּם); Yalk. Sam. 134. e.g. 1 Samuel 25:29
קְלַע
- Af. אַקְלַע same. Targ. I Sam. XVII, 49. Targ. Y. Ex. X, 19 אקלע Ar. (ed. טלק).
- to be thrown; to happen to come, happen to fall (on a certain day). Ḥull. 110ᵃ א׳ לסורא וכ׳ happened to come to Sura on the eve of &c. Ib. אִיקְלְעוּ לבי וכ׳ happened to come to the house (were the guests) of &c. Pes. 46ᵇ הואיל ומִיקְלְעֵי וכ׳ since guests may happen to come to him. Ned. 8ᵃ עד דמִקְלְעֵי ליה וכ׳ until ten persons … pass by him. R. Hash. 20ᵃ דא׳ יום שלשים וכ׳ if the thirtieth day happens to fall on a Sabbath. Ber. 53ᵇ אי מִקְּלַע לי ממילא if I happen to get it. Sabb. 117ᵇ כי מיקלע להו וכ׳ if they by chance had bread that had been used for an ʿErub (עֵירוּב); a. fr.
קָלַע II
- to twist, plait; [b. h. to form a raised figure, cmp. גָּדַל II]. Yoma VI, 7 קְלָעָן, v. מַקֵּל. Sabb. 64ᵃ עני קוֹלֵעַ שלש וכ׳ a poor man twists three threads and hangs the cord around his daughter’s neck. Y. ib. X, 12ᶜ bot. הקולע שלש וכ׳ he that plaits three strings of hair on a person’s head. Tosef. Maasr. I, 6 היה עתיד לִקְלוֹעַ בשום ולאגוד וכ׳ (ed. Zuck. ליקָּלֵעַ … וליאגד, Nif.) if the intention was about the garlic crop to plait, and about the onions to tie them in bunches, אינו חייב עד שיִקְלַע ויאגד he is not bound to give the tithes until he plaits or ties (or עד שיִקָּלֵעַ ויֵאָגֵד until the things are plaited or bunched); a. e.—Trnsf. [to weave a wreath,] to adorn, praise. Midr. Till. to Ps. XCII, end; Yalk. Ps. 846 הוא קוֹלֵעַ על יריאיו … קוֹלְעִים לו וכ׳ he (God) praises those who fear him, and those who fear him praise him; you say (Ps. XCII, 16) &c., and I say, (Zeph. III, 13) &c. e.g. Psalms 92:16
- 1. same. Num. R. s. 9 היא קִילְּעָה לו וכ׳ (not קולעה) she plaited her hair to please him (her paramour), therefore the priest loosens her hair; Tosef. Sot. III, 3 ed. Zuck. note קלעה; a. e.
- 2. קִילְּעֶה or קִלְּעֶה (cmp. נתעלפה, s. v. עָלַף II) to plait a person’s hair, dress, adorn (v. supra). Ber. 61ᵃ; Koh. R. to VII, 2; Sabb. 95ᵃ; Erub. 18ᵃ; Nidd. 45ᵇ; Koh. R. to VII, 2 (ref. to ויבן, Gen. II, 22) מלמד שקילעה הקב"ה לחוה וכ׳ this intimates that the Lord dressed Eve &c., v. בִּנְיָיתָא. Y. Snh. II, 20ᵃ bot. (ref. to II Sam. XX, 3 ויכלכל, v. כִּלְכֵּל) מלמד שהיה דוד מְקַלַּעֲתָן וכ׳ this teaches that David had them dressed and adorned and made them come before him every day, and said to his evil inclination &c. e.g. Genesis 2:22
- to be plaited, v. supra.
קְלַע ²
- , to plait. Targ. Y. Num. V, 18 (v. Num. R. s. 9, quot. in preced.).
קֶלַע I
- sling. Sifra Sh’mini, Par. 6, ch. VIII כל כלי לרבות הק׳ וכ׳ ‘any receptacle’ (Lev. XI, 32), to include the sling &c. Eduy. III, 5 הק׳ שבית וכ׳ a sling the receptacle of which is of woven material. Sabb. 67ᵃ ק׳ נטושה (fem.), v. נָטַשׁ I. e.g. Leviticus 11:32
קֶלַע II
- c. (קָלַע II) twisted cord, rope; plait. Gen. R. s. 22 (ref. to Is. V, 18) כק׳ הזו של ספינה (prob. to be read עגלה) as the rope of a ship (a wagon), v. עֲבוֹת.—Pl. קְלָעִים. Yoma 47ᵃ מימי … קִלְעֵי שערי never did the beams of my house see the plaits of my hair (I always wear a cap in the house). e.g. Isaiah 5:18
קֶלַע III
- pl.; preced.)
- 1. curtain, sail. Tosef. B. Kam. VIII, 17 ובלבד שלא יפרוס את הק׳ וכ׳ provided one does not spread the sail and detain the boat (when fishing in the waters of a neighboring tribe).—Pl. קְלָעִים, קְלָעִין. Eduy. VIII, 6; Zeb. 107ᵇ; Meg. 10ᵃ, a. e. כשהיו … ק׳ להיכל וק׳ לעזרות when they were rebuilding the Temple, they made curtains for the Temple and curtains for the courts.—Esp. the curtains of the Tabernacle; trnsf. the partitions of the Temple corresponding to those of the Tabernacle. Zeb. V, 3 לפנים מן הק׳ inside of the enclosures (in the Temple court); a. e.
- 2. (pl.) tents at fairs, shops. Snh. 106ᵃ עֲשֵׂה להן ק׳ וכ׳ put up shops for them and place therein prostitutes &c.; עָשָׂה להן ק׳ וכ׳ (Ar. קעילין) he put up shops for them &c.; Sifré Num. 131 ק׳ Var. (ed. מקולין; Yalk. ib. 771 קעילין; Y. Snh. X, 28ᵈ top קנקלין).
קְלַע ³
- 1. sail, curtain. Targ. Is. XXXIII, 23.—Pl. קִלְעִין, קִי׳, קְלָעַיָּיא. Ib. XVIII, 1. Ib. LX, 9.—Y. Sabb. XX, beg. 17ᶜ הוון פרסין קִילְעַיָּה וכ׳ they spread the curtains a day before to the length of four cubits.
- 2. curtained enclosure. Erub. 63ᵇ (in Hebr. dict.) הישן בק׳ וכ׳ (Ms. M. a. Yalk. Mic. 551 הלן בכילה; Ar. a. En Yaăḳ. ed. pr. בקעילה; ed. Cost. בקליעא, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) he that sleeps in a compartment in which husband and wife are. Ned. 22ᵇ זיל לקִילְעָךְ go to thy room (I cannot help thee).—Esp. ante-room, hall. Ber. 22ᵇ top בק׳ דרב וכ׳ in the anteroom of Rab O. M. Kat. 24ᵇ; a. e.—[Pl. קִלְעָתָא, v. קְלִיעֲתָא.]
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