Slaughter
הֶ֫רֶגStrong’s H2027hereg (he-reg)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Hereg is the Hebrew word usually translated “slaughter” and “like slaughter of”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.”
Meaning
- A killing, slaughter
How it's translated
- and slaughter 1
- to the slaughter 1
- like slaughter of 1
- slaughter 1
- a slaughter 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Esther 1
- Proverbs 1
- Ezekiel 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 24:11If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
- Isaiah 27:7Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
- Isaiah 30:25And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
- Ezekiel 26:15Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
Hebrew dictionary
הֶ֫רֶג hereg · slaughter
a killing, slaughter
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.