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To sacrifice

דְּבַחStrong’s H1684

devach (de-vach)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Devach is the Aramaic word usually translated “sacrificing”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;”
Ezra 6:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. (P'al) to sacrifice
How it's translated
  • sacrificing 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Ezra 1

1 book in all.

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    Aramaic dictionary

    דְּבַח devach · to sacrifice

    (P'al) to sacrifice Aramaic of za.vach (זָבַח "to sacrifice" H2076)

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    SAC'RIFICE, verb transitive

    sac'rifize. [Latin sacrifico; sacer, sacred, and facio, to make.]

    1. To offer to God in homage or worship, by killing and consuming, as victims on an altar; to immolate, either as an atonement for sin, or to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a lamb. 2 Samuel 6:13
    2. To destroy, surrender or suffer to be lost for the sake of obtaining something; as, to sacrifice the peace of the church to a little vain curiosity.
    3. To devote with loss.
    4. To destroy; to kill.
    All definitions and other forms of “sacrifice”

      SAC'RIFICE, verb intransitive

      To make offerings to God by the slaughter and burning of victims, or of some part of them.

        SAC'RIFICE, noun

        [Latin sacrificium.]

        1. An offering made to God by killing and burning some animal upon an altar, as an acknowledgment of his power and providence, or to make atonement for sin, appease his wrath or conciliate his favor, or to express thankfulness for his benefits.
        2. The thing offered to God, or immolated by an act of religion.
        3. Destruction, surrender or loss made or incurred for gaining some object, or for obliging another; as the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest.
        4. Any thing destroyed.

        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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.