סָקַל saqal

Hebrew word for “to stone” · Strong’s H5619 · used 22 times in 20 verses

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Meaning

1) to stone (to death), put to death by stoning;

How it is translated

Glosses given for saqal in context, with how often each is used:

• will stone 5
• will be stoned to death 4
• stoned 4
• certainly 2
• stone 2
• will they stone? 1
• has been stoned 1
• had been stoned 1
• cleared of stones 1
• clear 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Kings 21 (4), Exodus 21 (3), Deuteronomy 22 (2), 2 Samuel 16 (2), Exodus 8 (1), Exodus 17 (1), Exodus 19 (1), Deuteronomy 13 (1), Deuteronomy 17 (1), Joshua 7 (1)

Forms

• יסקל 4
• סקול 2
• וסקלתם 2
• ויסקל 2
• ויסקלהו 2
• סקל 2
• יסקלנו 1
• וסקלני 1
• וסקלתו 1
• וסקלוה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with saqal more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אֶבֶן even “stone” 9
• מוּת mut “to die” 10
• אוֹ o “or” 5
• נָבוֹת navot “Naboth” 3
• עוּד ud “to testify” 3
• יָצָא yatsa “to come out” 6
• שׁוֹר shor “cattle” 3
• נָגַח nagach “to gore” 2
• אֱנוֹשׁ enosh “human” 4
• אִיזֶבֶל izevel “Jezebel” 2
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 4
• בְּלִיַּעַל beliyyaal “Belial” 2

Key verses

The verses using saqal that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 8:26 — And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of…
• Exodus 17:4 — And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
• Deuteronomy 13:10 — And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of…
• Deuteronomy 17:5 — Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them…
• Deuteronomy 22:21 — Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath…
• Deuteronomy 22:24 — Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in…
• Joshua 7:25 — And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they…
• 1 Samuel 30:6 — And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his…
• 1 Kings 21:10 — And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him,…
• 1 Kings 21:13 — And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the…
• Isaiah 5:2 — And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress…
• Isaiah 62:10 — Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.