Word study

Hurl

5 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: hurled, hurl, hurls, hurling. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “hurl” or one of its forms.

Compare the Hebrew words side by side

Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • טוּל ṭûlhurl, casttranslated this way 6 times of its 14 uses · Strong’s H2904Verb  ·  Translated: hurled 4, cast 4, hurl 2

    1 Samuel 18:11 and he hurled it, thinking, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.

    Jeremiah 22:26 I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born — and there you both will die.

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  • שָׁלַךְ shâlakthrow, fling, casttranslated this way 2 times of its 126 uses · Strong’s H7993Verb  ·  Translated: cast 27, threw 20, throw 16, thrown 10

    Nehemiah 9:11 You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.

    Job 27:22 It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

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  • בָּרָק bârâqlightningtranslated this way 1 time of its 21 uses · Strong’s H1300Noun  ·  Translated: lightning 10, flash like lightning 3, like lightning 2, shining 2

    2 Samuel 22:15 He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.

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  • רָבַב râbabshoottranslated this way 1 time of its 2 uses · Strong’s H7232Verb  ·  Translated: aimed 1, hurled 1

    Psalm 18:14 He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.

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  • חָרַף châraphreproachtranslated this way 1 time of its 41 uses · Strong’s H2778Verb  ·  Translated: taunted 9, defy 7, taunt 4, taunts 3

    Psalm 79:12 Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • βάλλω bállōI cast, throw, rush, put, place, droptranslated this way 5 times of its 120 uses · Strong’s G906Verb  ·  Translated: thrown 26, put 16, throw 11, cast 10

    Revelation 8:5 Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the earth; and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

    Revelation 8:7 Then the first angel sounded his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, along with a third of the trees and all the green grass.

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.