Strong’s H5619 · Hebrew
סָקַל
çâqal
saw-kal'
Definition
properly, to be weighty; but used only in the sense of lapidation or its contrary (as if a delapidation)
Etymology
a primitive root;
Where the KJV renders it
- (cast
- gather out
- throw) stone(-s)
- surely
Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.
What the first audience heard
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