slingstone / missile

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slingstone / missile

slingstone / missile

Figuratively: a stone used for slinging or shooting.

("The Lord of Hosts will defend them; they shall devour and conquer with slingstones, and drink and make noise as through wine, and be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar" – Zechariah 9:15; and: "The arrow shall not make him flee; slingstones are turned with him into stubble" – Job 41:20; and: "Guard your soul, guard your strength, guard your soul... from slingstone, from knife, from claws" – Nathan Alterman, Song of Watch; and: "Elad went down to the Jordan / He broke the slingstones / Hewed hewn stones from the rock / Just as in the beginning" – Avraham Zigman, Elad Went Down to the Jordan)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

אֶבֶן קֶלַע

Definition (Hebrew)

בִּמְלִיצָה: אֶבֶן הַמְּשַׁמֶּשֶׁת לִקְלִיעָה אוֹ יְרִיָּה.

("ה' צְבָאוֹת יָגֵן עֲלֵיהֶם וְאָכְלוּ וְכָבְשׁוּ אַבְנֵי קֶלַע וְשָׁתוּ הָמוּ כְּמוֹ יָיִן וּמָלְאוּ כַּמִּזְרָק כְּזָוִיּוֹת מִזְבֵּחַ"- זְכַרְיָה ט טוּ, וְכֵן:"לֹא יַבְרִיחֶנּוּ בֶן קָשֶׁת לְקַשׁ נֶהְפְּכוּ לוֹ אַבְנֵי קָלַע"- אִיּוֹב מָא כ, וְכֵן:"שִׁמְרִי נַפְשְׁךָ, כּוֹחֲךָ שִׁמְרִי, שִׁמְרִי נַפְשְׁךָ/...מֵאֶבֶן קָלַע, מִסַּכִּין, מִצִּפָּרְנִיִּים"- נָתָן אַלְתֶּרְמָן/ שִׁיר מְשַׁמֵּר, וְכֵן:"אֶלְעָד יָרַד אֶל הַיַּרְדֵּן/ הוּא שָׁבַר אַבְנֵי הַקֶּלַע/ אַבְנֵי גָּזִית חָצַב מִסֶּלַע/ מַמָּשׁ כְּמוֹ בָּרִאשׁוֹנָה"- אַבְרָהָם זִיגְמָן/ אֶלְעָד יָרַד אֶל הַיַּרְדֵּן)

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