Sacrifice
זֶ֫בַחStrong’s H2077zevach (ze-vach)
Appears in 153 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zevach is the Hebrew word usually translated “sacrifice of”, “sacrifice” and “sacrifices of”. It appears in 153 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”
Meaning
- Sacrificesacrifices of righteousness · sacrifices of strife · sacrifices to dead things · the covenant sacrifice · the passover · annual sacrifice · thank offering
How it's translated
- sacrifice of 24
- a sacrifice 18
- sacrifices of 16
- and to sacrifice of 13
- sacrifices 12
- sacrifice 10
- a sacrifice of 8
- sacrifices your 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 32
- Numbers 20
- 1 Samuel 15
- Psalms 11
- Exodus 8
- 2 Chronicles 7
25 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 10:25And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.
- Exodus 12:27That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
- Exodus 18:12And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father in law before God.
- Exodus 23:18Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
All 153 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
זֶ֫בַח zevach · sacrifice
1) sacrifice 1a) sacrifices of righteousness 1b) sacrifices of strife 1c) sacrifices to dead things 1d) the covenant sacrifice 1e) the passover 1f) annual sacrifice 1g) thank offering
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.