To kill

Usually translated “execute”, “may execute” and “executed”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• to execute 8
• they may execute 3
• he executed 2
• to be executed 2
• you executed 2
• was executed 1
• took up 1
• they executed 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Acts 18
• Luke 2
• Matthew 1
• 2 Thessalonians 1
• Hebrews 1

5 books in all.

• To kill (harag)
• To kill (apokteinō)
• To murder (ratsach)
• To slay (qetal)

• Matthew 2:16Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
• Luke 22:2And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
• Luke 23:32And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
• Acts 2:23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
• Acts 5:33When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
• Acts 5:36For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “kill” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.