harag (to kill) · Rightly

Meaning

To kill, slay, murder, destroy, murderer, slayer, out of hand(Qal) · (Niphal) to be killed · (Pual) to be killed, be slain

How it's translated

and he killed 15
they killed 12
to kill 10
and they killed 5
you killed 4
kill 4
he killed 4
they have killed 4

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

Where it's used most

Genesis 16
Judges 14
2 Chronicles 12
1 Kings 11
Exodus 10
Ezekiel 10

27 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Genesis 4:8And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Genesis 4:14Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Genesis 4:15And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
Genesis 4:23And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
Genesis 4:25And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
Genesis 12:12Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

All 158 verses, by book

Genesis 16: 4:8 4:14 4:15 4:23 4:25 12:12 20:4 20:11 26:7 27:41 27:42 34:25 34:26 37:20 37:26 49:6
Exodus 10: 2:14 2:15 4:23 5:21 13:15 21:14 22:24 23:7 32:12 32:27
Leviticus 2: 20:15 20:16
Numbers 8: 11:15 22:29 22:33 25:5 31:7 31:8 31:17 31:19
Deuteronomy 1: 13:9
Joshua 4: 8:24 9:26 10:11 13:22
Judges 14: 7:25 8:17 8:18 8:19 8:20 8:21 9:5 9:18 9:24 9:45 9:54 9:56 16:2 20:5
1 Samuel 5: 16:2 22:21 24:10 24:11 24:18
2 Samuel 8: 3:30 4:10 4:11 4:12 10:18 12:9 14:7 23:21
1 Kings 11: 2:5 2:32 9:16 11:24 12:27 18:12 18:13 18:14 19:1 19:10 19:14
2 Kings 5: 8:12 9:31 10:9 11:18 17:25
1 Chronicles 3: 7:21 11:23 19:18
2 Chronicles 12: 21:4 21:13 22:1 22:8 23:17 24:22 24:25 25:3 28:6 28:7 28:9 36:17
Nehemiah 3: 4:11 6:10 9:26
Esther 9: 3:13 7:4 8:11 9:6 9:10 9:11 9:12 9:15 9:16
Job 2: 5:2 20:16
Psalms 9: 10:8 44:22 59:11 78:31 78:34 78:47 94:6 135:10 136:18
Proverbs 2: 1:32 7:26
Ecclesiastes 1: 3:3
Isaiah 8: 10:4 14:19 14:20 14:30 22:13 26:21 27:1 27:7
Jeremiah 3: 4:31 15:3 18:21
Lamentations 4: 2:4 2:20 2:21 3:43
Ezekiel 10: 9:6 21:11 23:10 23:47 26:6 26:8 26:11 26:15 28:9 37:9
Hosea 2: 6:5 9:13
Amos 4: 2:3 4:10 9:1 9:4
Habakkuk 1: 1:17
Zechariah 1: 11:5

Hebrew dictionary

הָרַג harag · to kill

1) to kill, slay, murder, destroy, murderer, slayer, out of hand 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to kill, slay 1a2) to destroy, ruin 1b) (Niphal) to be killed 1c) (Pual) to be killed, be slain

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

KILL, verb transitive

To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means.
To butcher; to slaughter for food; as, to kill an ox.
To quell; to appease; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind.

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