Slaughter
אִבְחָהStrong’s H0019ivchah (iv-chah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Ivchah is the Hebrew word usually translated “slaughter of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.”
Meaning
- Slaughter, flesh, meat, slaughtered meat
How it's translated
- a slaughter of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אִבְחָה ivchah · slaughter
slaughter, flesh, meat, slaughtered meat
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “slaughter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SLAUGHTER, noun
slaw'ter [See Slay.]
- In a general sense, a killing.
- Applied to beasts, butchery; a killing of oxen or other beasts for market.
All definitions and other forms of “slaughter”
SLAUGHTER, verb transitive
slaw'ter.
- To kill; to slay; to make great destruction of life; as, to slaughter men in battle.
- To butcher; to kill for the market; as beasts.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.