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title: קַלָּע — slinger · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קַלָּע (7051), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: slinger. BDB 1906: n.m. slinger. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קַלָּע

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«קַלָּע» in the Tanakh dictionary: **slinger** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 7051 · **BDB:** קַלָּע

### Glosses

slingers (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

slinger [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7051/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. slinger [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7051/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. slinger;—pl. קַלָּעִים 2 K 3:25.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קַלָּע» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7051/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Kings 3:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.3.25/)

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וְהֶעָרִ֣ים יַהֲרֹ֡סוּ וְכָל־חֶלְקָ֣ה ט֠וֹבָה יַשְׁלִ֨יכוּ אִישׁ־אַבְנ֜וֹ וּמִלְא֗וּהָ וְכָל־מַעְיַן־מַ֤יִם יִסְתֹּ֙מוּ֙ וְכָל־עֵֽץ־ט֣וֹב יַפִּ֔ילוּ עַד־הִשְׁאִ֧יר אֲבָנֶ֛יהָ בַּקִּ֖יר חֲרָ֑שֶׂת קִּ֖יר חֲרָ֑שֶׂת וַיָּסֹ֥בּוּ הַקַּלָּעִ֖ים וַיַּכּֽוּהָ׃

*Word for word:* and the cities they.tore.down and every portion.of.land good they.threw each stone his and they filled.it and every spring of.water they.stopped.up and every tree good they.made.fall until he.left.behind stones its in (the) Kir Hareseth and they.surrounded.\[it\] the slingers and they attacked.it

*JPS 1917:* And they beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the fountains of water, and felled all the good trees; until there was left only Kir-hareseth with the stones of the wall thereof; so the slingers encompassed it, and smote it.

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