Quick Definition
to stone
Strong's Definition
properly, to be weighty; but used only in the sense of lapidation or its contrary (as if a delapidation)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: (cast, gather out, throw) stone(-s), [idiom] surely.
TWOT Reference: 1541
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
סָקַל (sa.qal) — to stone. 1) to stone (to death), put to death by stoning 1a) (Qal) to pelt with stones, stone to death 1b) (Niphal) to be stoned to death 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to stone, pelt with stones 1c2) to free from stones (of vineyard, highway) 1d) (Pual) to be stoned to death
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Move | verb pi
to pelt = causative action by which humans throw stones at other humans
Move | verb pi
to clear of stones = causative action by which humans remove stones from a field or road
Dead | verb qal, verb nif, verb pu'al
to stone = causative action by which humans kill other humans or animals by throwing rocks at them until they die
EXO 8:22 · EXO 17:4 · EXO 19:13 · EXO 19:13 · EXO 21:28 · EXO 21:28 · EXO 21:29 · EXO 21:32 · DEU 13:11 · DEU 17:5 · DEU 22:21 · DEU 22:24 · JOS 7:25 · 1SA 30:6 · 1KI 21:10 · 1KI 21:13 · 1KI 21:14 · 1KI 21:15
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[סָקַל] vb. stone, be put to death by stoning, also (Pi.) free from stones Qal pelt with stones, stone to death
Niph. be stoned to death
Pi. stone, pelt with stones
free vineyard (acc.) from stones
Pu. be stoned to death
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