tse.ror denotes a small stone or pebble, whether left behind after a city is dragged away or retained in a shaken sieve.

The two attestations depict a small stone or pebble in scenes of complete removal and careful sifting: none is left at a destroyed city, and none falls from a shaken sieve.

1. Small stone in removal and sifting imagery · dominant

   Both occurrences use the masculine singular absolute form in a clause concerning what remains or falls. In 2 Samuel 17:13 the APB renders the outcome of dragging down a city as leaving "not even a pebble" there; in Amos 9:9 it renders the shaking of grain in a sieve so that "not a pebble falls to the land."

   2 Samuel 17:13Amos 9:9

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses "pebble" in both verses, though it is a whole-verse translation. The surrounding images differ: a city is dragged down in 2 Samuel 17:13, while grain is shaken in a sieve in Amos 9:9.