קֶלַעqelaʻ

קֶ֫לַע: sling (1 Samuel 17:50; 1 Samuel 25:29; 1 Samuel 17:40; Job 41:20; 2 Chronicles 26:14)

Pronunciation: keh'-lah · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7050

Meanings

קֶ֫לַע: curtain, hanging (Exodus 27:9; Exodus 35:17; Numbers 3:26; Numbers 4:26; 1 Kings 6:34)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 22 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 27:9 “Then make the courtyard for the Tabernacle, enclosed with curtains made of finely woven linen. On the south side, make the curtains 150 feet long.
  • Exodus 27:11 Make the curtains the same on the north side—150 feet of curtains held up by twenty posts set securely in bronze bases. Hang the curtains with silver hooks and rings.
  • Exodus 27:12 The curtains on the west end of the courtyard will be 75 feet long, supported by ten posts set into ten bases.
  • Exodus 27:14 The courtyard entrance will be on the east end, flanked by two curtains. The curtain on the right side will be 22 1⁄2 feet long, supported by three posts set into three bases.
  • Exodus 27:15 The curtain on the left side will also be 22 1⁄2 feet long, supported by three posts set into three bases.
  • Exodus 35:17 the curtains for the walls of the courtyard; the posts and their bases; the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard;
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).