Sling
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SLING.See Armour Arms, § 1 (e).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
(See ARMS.) 1Sa_17:40. Smooth stones were preferred. The Benjamites' expertness with it was famed (Jdg_20:16; 1Ch_12:2). Suited for skirmishing, and for striking the besieged (2Ki_3:25; 2Ch_26:14). Two strings attached to a leather center, the hollow receptacle of the stone, composed it. 1Sa_25:29, "the soul of thine enemies Itc will hurl away in the cup (kaph) of the sling." It was swung round the head, then one string was let go and the stone hurled out.
Image of "sudden and violent removal" (Jer_10:18). Translated Zec_9:15, "they (the Jews) shall tread under foot the sling stones" hurled at them by the foe, and falling harmless at their feet (Job_41:28). Their foes shall be as such sling stones when fallen under foot; in contrast to God's people (Zec_9:16), "the (precious) stones of a crown." In Pro_26:8, "as he that bindeth a stone in a sling" (margemah, distinct from qela' a "sling"), the stone bound is useless to the slinger; so "honour" is useless when "given to a feel" (Ewald). Maurer translated "hurleth." Chaldean, Syriac, and Arabic support KJV; the Vulgate supports margin, "as he that putteth a precious stone in an heap of stones." KJV is best.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Sling. See Arms.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
See ARMOR, III., 2.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
1Sa_25:29 (a) The thought presented here is that GOD will preserve His servant safely, holding him in His own powerful hand. The enemies of GOD will be destroyed by the Lord, taken out of the way, and be completely defeated.
Pro_26:8 (a) This strange illustration describes the foolishness of giving no freedom to the stone which is to be thrown, and in giving a place of prominence to one who cannot fill it.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
press 1957.
(קֶלִע, kela; Sept. σφεδόνη; Vulg. funda), an implement which has in all ages been the favorite weapon of the shepherds of Syria (1Sa_17:40), and hence was adopted by the Israelitish army as the most effective weapon for light armed troops. The Benjamites were particularly expert in their use of it; even the left handed could sling stones at a hair and not miss (Jdg_20:16; comp. 1Ch_12:2). According to the Targum of Jonathan and the Syriac, it was the weapon of the Cherethites and Pelethites. It was advantageously used in attacking and defending towns (2Ki_3:25; Josephus, War, 4, 1, 3), and in skirmishing (ibid. 2, 17, 5). Other eastern nations availed therhselves of it, as the Syrians (1Ma_9:11), who also invented a kind of artificial sling (1Ma_6:51), the Assyrians (Jdg_9:7; Layard, Nin. and Bab. 2, 344), the Egyptians (Wilkinson, 1, 357), and the Persians (Xenophon, Anab. 3, 3, 18). The construction of the weapon hardly needs description. It consisted of a couple of strings of sinew, or some fibrous substance, attached to a leathern receptacle for the stone in the center, which was termed the kaph (כִּ), i.e. pan (1Sa_25:29). The sling was swung once or twice round the head, and the stone was then discharged by letting go one of the strings. Sling stones (אָבְנֵיאּקֶלִע) were selected for their smoothness (1Sa_17:40), and were recognized as one of the ordinary munitions of war (2Ch_26:14). In action the stones were either carried in a bag round the neck (1Sa_17:40), or were heaped up at the feet of the combatant (Layard, Nin. and Bab. 2, 344). The violence with which the stone was projected supplied a vivid image of sudden and forcible removal (Jer_10:18). The rapidity of the whirling motion of the sling round the head was emblematic of inquietude (1Sa_25:29, the souls of.thine enemies shall he whirl round in the midst of the pan of a sling), while the sling stones represented the enemies of God (Zec_9:15, they shall tread under foot the sling stones). The term margemah (מִרְגֵמָה) in Pro_26:8 is of doubtful meaning. Gesenius (Thesaur. p. 1263) explains of a heap of stones, as in the margin of the A.V., the Sept.; Ewald and Hitzig, of a sling, as in the text. The simple weapon with which David killed the giant Philistine was the natural attendant of a shepherd, whose duty it was to keep at a distance and drive off anything attempting to molest his flocks. The sling would be familiar to all shepherds and keepers of sheep, and, therefore, the bold metaphor of Abigail has a natural propriety in the mouth of the wife of a man whose possessions in flocks were so great as those of Nabal (1Sa_25:29).
Later in the monarchy, slingers formed part of the regular army (2Ki_3:25), though it would seem that the slings there mentioned must have been more ponderous than in earlier times, and that those which could break down the fortifications of so strong a place as Kir-haraseth must have been more like the engines which king Uzziah contrived to shoot great stones (2Ch_26:15). In 2Ch_26:14 of the same chapter we find an allusion (concealed in the A.V. by two interpolated words) to stones specially adapted for slings, Uzziah prepared throughout all the host shields and spears, bows and sling stones.
Shepherd life in Syria and Arabia affords peculiar facilities for the cultivation and acquirement of this art; and Burckhardt notes of the modern Bedawin that the shepherds who tend flocks at a distance from the camp are armed with short lances, and also with slings, which they use very dexterously in throwing stones as large as a man's fist (Notes on the Bed. 1, 57). Thomson speaks of the extraordinary skill of the lads of Hasbeya with this weapon (Land and Book, 2, 372). In various other countries the use of the sling was much practiced in ancient times; the inhabitants of the Baleares (Majorca and Minorca) were particularly distinguished for it. SEE ARMOR.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
(See ARMS.) 1Sa_17:40. Smooth stones were preferred. The Benjamites' expertness with it was famed (Jdg_20:16; 1Ch_12:2). Suited for skirmishing, and for striking the besieged (2Ki_3:25; 2Ch_26:14). Two strings attached to a leather center, the hollow receptacle of the stone, composed it. 1Sa_25:29, "the soul of thine enemies Itc will hurl away in the cup (kaph) of the sling." It was swung round the head, then one string was let go and the stone hurled out.
Image of "sudden and violent removal" (Jer_10:18). Translated Zec_9:15, "they (the Jews) shall tread under foot the sling stones" hurled at them by the foe, and falling harmless at their feet (Job_41:28). Their foes shall be as such sling stones when fallen under foot; in contrast to God's people (Zec_9:16), "the (precious) stones of a crown." In Pro_26:8, "as he that bindeth a stone in a sling" (margemah, distinct from qela' a "sling"), the stone bound is useless to the slinger; so "honour" is useless when "given to a feel" (Ewald). Maurer translated "hurleth." Chaldean, Syriac, and Arabic support KJV; the Vulgate supports margin, "as he that putteth a precious stone in an heap of stones." KJV is best.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Sling. See Arms.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
See ARMOR, III., 2.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
1Sa_25:29 (a) The thought presented here is that GOD will preserve His servant safely, holding him in His own powerful hand. The enemies of GOD will be destroyed by the Lord, taken out of the way, and be completely defeated.
Pro_26:8 (a) This strange illustration describes the foolishness of giving no freedom to the stone which is to be thrown, and in giving a place of prominence to one who cannot fill it.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
press 1957.
(קֶלִע, kela; Sept. σφεδόνη; Vulg. funda), an implement which has in all ages been the favorite weapon of the shepherds of Syria (1Sa_17:40), and hence was adopted by the Israelitish army as the most effective weapon for light armed troops. The Benjamites were particularly expert in their use of it; even the left handed could sling stones at a hair and not miss (Jdg_20:16; comp. 1Ch_12:2). According to the Targum of Jonathan and the Syriac, it was the weapon of the Cherethites and Pelethites. It was advantageously used in attacking and defending towns (2Ki_3:25; Josephus, War, 4, 1, 3), and in skirmishing (ibid. 2, 17, 5). Other eastern nations availed therhselves of it, as the Syrians (1Ma_9:11), who also invented a kind of artificial sling (1Ma_6:51), the Assyrians (Jdg_9:7; Layard, Nin. and Bab. 2, 344), the Egyptians (Wilkinson, 1, 357), and the Persians (Xenophon, Anab. 3, 3, 18). The construction of the weapon hardly needs description. It consisted of a couple of strings of sinew, or some fibrous substance, attached to a leathern receptacle for the stone in the center, which was termed the kaph (כִּ), i.e. pan (1Sa_25:29). The sling was swung once or twice round the head, and the stone was then discharged by letting go one of the strings. Sling stones (אָבְנֵיאּקֶלִע) were selected for their smoothness (1Sa_17:40), and were recognized as one of the ordinary munitions of war (2Ch_26:14). In action the stones were either carried in a bag round the neck (1Sa_17:40), or were heaped up at the feet of the combatant (Layard, Nin. and Bab. 2, 344). The violence with which the stone was projected supplied a vivid image of sudden and forcible removal (Jer_10:18). The rapidity of the whirling motion of the sling round the head was emblematic of inquietude (1Sa_25:29, the souls of.thine enemies shall he whirl round in the midst of the pan of a sling), while the sling stones represented the enemies of God (Zec_9:15, they shall tread under foot the sling stones). The term margemah (מִרְגֵמָה) in Pro_26:8 is of doubtful meaning. Gesenius (Thesaur. p. 1263) explains of a heap of stones, as in the margin of the A.V., the Sept.; Ewald and Hitzig, of a sling, as in the text. The simple weapon with which David killed the giant Philistine was the natural attendant of a shepherd, whose duty it was to keep at a distance and drive off anything attempting to molest his flocks. The sling would be familiar to all shepherds and keepers of sheep, and, therefore, the bold metaphor of Abigail has a natural propriety in the mouth of the wife of a man whose possessions in flocks were so great as those of Nabal (1Sa_25:29).
Later in the monarchy, slingers formed part of the regular army (2Ki_3:25), though it would seem that the slings there mentioned must have been more ponderous than in earlier times, and that those which could break down the fortifications of so strong a place as Kir-haraseth must have been more like the engines which king Uzziah contrived to shoot great stones (2Ch_26:15). In 2Ch_26:14 of the same chapter we find an allusion (concealed in the A.V. by two interpolated words) to stones specially adapted for slings, Uzziah prepared throughout all the host shields and spears, bows and sling stones.
Shepherd life in Syria and Arabia affords peculiar facilities for the cultivation and acquirement of this art; and Burckhardt notes of the modern Bedawin that the shepherds who tend flocks at a distance from the camp are armed with short lances, and also with slings, which they use very dexterously in throwing stones as large as a man's fist (Notes on the Bed. 1, 57). Thomson speaks of the extraordinary skill of the lads of Hasbeya with this weapon (Land and Book, 2, 372). In various other countries the use of the sling was much practiced in ancient times; the inhabitants of the Baleares (Majorca and Minorca) were particularly distinguished for it. SEE ARMOR.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
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