To sacrifice
דְּבַחStrong’s H2076devach (de-vach)
Appears in 127 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Devach is the Hebrew word usually translated “sacrificing”, “sacrifice” and “sacrificed”. It appears in 127 verses of the Old Testament.
“Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.”
Meaning
- (P'al) to sacrifice
How it's translated
- sacrificing 18
- to sacrifice 16
- and he sacrificed 13
- and they sacrificed 12
- you will sacrifice 7
- sacrifice 5
- and you will sacrifice 4
- i will sacrifice 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 17
- 1 Samuel 14
- 1 Kings 14
- 2 Chronicles 13
- Deuteronomy 12
- Psalms 9
24 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 31:54Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
- Genesis 46:1And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
- Exodus 3:18And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
- Exodus 5:3And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
- Exodus 5:8And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
- Exodus 5:17But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
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Hebrew 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.]
- 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
- 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.
- To devote with loss.
- 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.]
- 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.
- The thing offered to God, or immolated by an act of religion.
- 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.
- 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.