Strong's #7043: qalal (pronounced kaw-lal')
a primitive root; to be (causatively, make) light, literally (swift, small, sharp, etc.) or figuratively (easy, trifling, vile, etc.):--abate, make bright, bring into contempt, (ac-)curse, despise, (be) ease(-y, -ier), (be a, make, make somewhat, move, seem a, set) light(-en, -er, -ly, -ly afflict, -ly esteem, thing), X slight(-ly), be swift(-er), (be, be more, make, re-)vile, whet.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
qâlal
1) to be slight, be swift, be trifling, be of little account, be light
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be slight, be abated (of water)
1a2) to be swift
1a3) to be trifling, be of little account
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be swift, show oneself swift
1b2) to appear trifling, be too trifling, be insignificant
1b3) to be lightly esteemed
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to make despicable
1c2) to curse
1d) (Pual) to be cursed
1e) (Hiphil)
1e1) to make light, lighten
1e2) to treat with contempt, bring contempt or dishonour
1f) (Pilpel)
1f1) to shake
1f2) to whet
1g) (Hithpalpel) to shake oneself, be moved to and fro
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 82 times:
Job 9:25: "Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good."
Job 24:18: "as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not"
Job 40:4: "Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth."
Psalms 37:22: "such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off."
Psalms 62:4: "they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah."
Psalms 109:28: "Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice."
Proverbs 14:6: "wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth."
Proverbs 20:20: " Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness."
Proverbs 30:10: "unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty."
Proverbs 30:11: "There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother."
Ecclesiastes 7:21: "lest thou hear thy servant curse"
Ecclesiastes 7:22: "knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others."
Ecclesiastes 10:10: "be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom"
Ecclesiastes 10:20: " Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich"
Ecclesiastes 10:20: "the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber:"
Isaiah 8:21: "that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward."
Isaiah 9:1: "was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,"
Isaiah 23:9: "the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth."
Isaiah 30:16: "upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift."
Isaiah 49:6: "And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes"
Isaiah 65:20: "but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed."
Jeremiah 4:13: "and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for"
Jeremiah 4:24: "they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly."
Jeremiah 6:14: "also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace;"
Jeremiah 8:11: "the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no"
Jeremiah 15:10: "nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse"
Ezekiel 8:17: "me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit"
Ezekiel 21:21: "ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked"
Ezekiel 22:7: " In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed"
Jonah 1:5: "were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down"
Nahum 1:14: "the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile."
Habakkuk 1:8: "Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves:"
