Ep 051 (S3E7) Sticks and Stones

References:

• Sticks and stones… words can be powerful
  • hapax legomenon - a word that appears only once within a document or corpus
  • The works of William Shakespeare — known for wide variety in his vocabulary — are estimated to contain more than 6,000 hapax legomena (the plural form).
    • Honorificabilitudinitatibus - "the state of being able to achieve honours"
    • Wm Shakespeare's “Love’s Labour’s Lost” - Act 5, Scene 1
• David selected five smooth stones to fight Goliath. 1 Sam 17 Why five? Many people say because Goliath had four brothers. ??? Why smooth?
  • Wouldn’t a jagged or sharp edged stone be more lethal?
    • A smooth stone launched from a sling will fly truer than a jagged stone.
    • Sling hunters will tell you that blunt force well placed is the effectiveness of dropping game, not penetration.  
  • Smooth stones - חַלֻּק (khal-look') only used in 1 Sam 17:40
    • A Biblical hapax legomenon
  • From root חָלַק (khaw-lak') 
    • to divide, share, plunder, allot, apportion, assign
    • to be smooth, slippery, deceitful
      • Smooth Operator - Isa 41:7
      • Smooth Criminal - Ps 36:1-4 (esp v2)
• Here are five “smooth” Biblical stones for fighting the giants of spiritual warfare
  • Thoughts
    • Mind, thoughts - νόημα (no'-ay-mah) Phil 4:7, 2 Cor 2:11, 10:5
  • Opportunities 
    • Occasion for acting - τόπος (top'-os) Eph 4:27
  • Rebuke 
    • Rebuke of the Lord - ἐπιτιμάω (ep-ee-tee-mah'-o) Jude 1:9
  • Fight
    • Resist, oppose - ἀνθίστημι (anth-is'-tay-mee) James 4:7, 1 Peter 5:9
  • Flee
    • Exit, way out - ἔκβασις (ek'-bas-is) 1 Cor 10:13