1. sling (weapon for hurling stones) — The noun qela refers to a sling, the ancient weapon used to hurl stones, most famously associated with David's defeat of Goliath (1 Samuel 17). All four clusters represent the same military implement with purely grammatical variation: absolute singular (qela 'sling/a sling'), definite and prepositional (ha-qela 'the sling,' ba-qela 'with the sling'), possessive suffix (qal'o 'his sling'), and plural (qela'im 'slings'). Multilingual evidence is uniform: Arabic miqlaa' (المقلاع 'the sling'), Spanish honda (sling), Korean mulma-e (물매 'sling'), Swahili kombeo (sling), Hindi gophan (गोफन 'sling'). Whether singular or plural, definite or indefinite, possessive or absolute, the referent is the same handheld projectile weapon throughout. 6×
AR["المِقلاعِ","الْمَقَالِيعِ","الْمِقْلَاعِ","الْمِقْلَاعِ.","بِـ-المِقْلَاعِ","وَ-مِقْلاَعُهُ"]·ben["এবং-তার-গুলতি","গুলতি-দিয়ে","গুলতির","ফিঙার","সেই-গুলতির"]·DE["[קלע]","[קלעים]","der-Schleuder","mit-der-Schleuder","und-Schleuder-sein"]·EN["a-sling","and-sling-his","sling","slings","the-sling","with-the-sling"]·FR["[קלעים]","avec-le-fronde","et-fronde-son","fronde","le-fronde","קלע"]·heb["ב-קלע","ה-קלע","ו-קלע-ו","קלע","קלעים"]·HI["और-गोफ़न","गोफन-के","गोफनों-के","गोफ़न-की","गोफ़न-से"]·ID["dan-umbannya","dengan-umban","pengali","umban"]·IT["[קלע]","[קלעים]","a-sling","con-il-fionda","e-fionda-suo","il-fionda"]·jav["bandhil","ketapel.","lan-bandhil-ipun","mawi-bandhil","sang-banthilan"]·KO["그-물매로","그리고-그의-물매가","무릿매의","물매의"]·PT["a-funda","com-a-funda","e-sua-funda","funda","funda.","fundas"]·RU["и-праща-его","пращевые","пращи","пращой"]·ES["con-la-honda","honda","hondas","la-honda","y-honda-suya"]·SW["kombeo","kutupa","kwa-kombeo","na-kombeo-lake"]·TR["-sapanın","ile-sapanla","sapanların","sapanın","sapanın-","ve-sapanı"]·urd["اور-گوپھن","فلاخن-کے","فلاخن-کے۔","فلاخنوں-کے","گوپھن-سے"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† I. קֶ֫לַע n.[m.] sling;—abs. ק׳ 1 S 17:50, כַּף הַקָּ֑לַע 25:29 hollow of the sling (fig.); sf. קַלְעוֹ 17:40; אַבְנֵי־קָ֑לַע Jb 41:20 2, so א׳ קְלָעִים 2 Ch 26:14; א׳־קֶלַע Zc 9:15 is difficult: MartiKau כְּא׳־ק׳; We Now בְּנֵי ק׳ sons of———?