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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