qa.la describes slinging a stone and, in figures of removal, casting people away as from a sling.

The verb denotes the action of slinging: it is used of throwing a stone in battle and of casting enemies or inhabitants away in imagery framed by a sling.

1. Slinging or casting away · dominant

   In Judges 20:16 the Qal active participle occurs in the clause about men able to sling a stone at a hair; in 1 Samuel 17:49 the Piel sequential imperfect occurs as David takes a stone and strikes the Philistine. The same action supplies imagery of removal in 1 Samuel 25:29, where the APB renders the enemies' lives as being cast out from a sling's hollow, and in Jeremiah 10:18, where it renders the inhabitants as being cast away.

   Judges 20:161 Samuel 17:491 Samuel 25:29Jeremiah 10:18

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the action with “slung,” “sling out,” and “slinging,” while its wording for Jeremiah 10:18 presents the resulting removal. These English expressions confirm the clauses' imagery rather than supply separate definitions.