(Topheth of) Slaughter
הֲרֵגָהStrong’s H2028haregah (ha-re-gah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Haregah is the Hebrew word usually translated “slaughter”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;”
Meaning
- A killing, slaughter
- A killing, slaughter
How it's translated
- slaughter 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- Zechariah 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 11:7In contextAnd I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
- Jeremiah 7:32Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
- Jeremiah 12:3But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
- Jeremiah 19:6Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
Hebrew dictionary
הֲרֵגָה haregah · (Topheth of) Slaughter
a killing, slaughter Combined with to.phet (תֹּ֫פֶת "Topheth" H8612)
הֲרֵגָה haregah · 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.