H3219 H3219
wallet, shepherd's pouch — receptacle for carrying items (1 Sam 17:40)
This word designates a bag or pouch, appearing when David selects stones for his sling before facing Goliath. The term suggests a common shepherd's accessory for carrying food or tools. Some scholars view it as a gloss or textual issue, but most understand it as the practical pouch every shepherd carried, emphasizing David's humble equipment against Goliath's military splendor.
Senses
1. sense 1 — A shepherd's bag or pouch mentioned in 1 Samuel 17:40 as David prepares to face Goliath. The preposition 'in' with conjunction shows this as the container for the stones David selected. Translations (Spanish 'y-en-el-morral,' German 'und-in-der-pouch') maintain the concrete sense of a carried receptacle, highlighting the contrast between David's simple equipment and Goliath's armor. 1×
AR["وَ-فِي-الجِرَابِ"]·ben["এবং-ব্যাগে"]·DE["und-in-der-pouch"]·EN["and-in-the-pouch"]·FR["et-dans-le-pouch"]·heb["ו-ב-ילקוט"]·HI["और-झोलि-मेइन"]·ID["dan-di-kantong"]·IT["e-in-il-pouch"]·jav["lan-ing-tas"]·KO["그리고-주머니에"]·PT["e-no-alforje"]·RU["и-в-котомку"]·ES["y-en-el-morral"]·SW["na-mkoba"]·TR["ve-heybede"]·urd["اور-جھولی-میں"]
Related Senses
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† יַלְקוּט n.[m.] receptacle, wallet(?) (proposes collector) (on form cf. LagBN p. 127 BaNB § 156 b Köii. 1, § 76, 4)—only in 1 S 17:40 and he put them [the stones] בִּכְלִי הָרֹעִים אֲשֶׁר־לוֹ וּבַיַּלְקוּט in the shepherd’s receptable which he had, even (?) in the wallet (? such as every shepherd carried, hence art.); but prob. del. ו before בַּיַּל׳ (𝔊 The We Klo Bu HPS), and regard בִּכְלִי … לוֹ as gloss (We Bu HPS).