To slaughter
טָבַחStrong’s H2873tavach (ta-vach)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tavach is the Hebrew word usually translated “slaughter”, “slaughter it” and “slaughtered”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon.”
Meaning
- To slaughter, slay, butcher, kill ruthlessly(Qal)
How it's translated
- to slaughter 5
- and slaughter 1
- and he will slaughter it 1
- slaughtered 1
- i have slaughtered 1
- she has slaughtered 1
- you have slaughtered 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- Genesis 1
- Exodus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 22:1If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
- Deuteronomy 28:31Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
- 1 Samuel 25:11Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?
- Psalms 37:14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
- Proverbs 9:2She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
- Jeremiah 11:19But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Hebrew dictionary
טָבַח tavach · to slaughter
1) to slaughter, slay, butcher, kill ruthlessly 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to slaughter, butcher 1a2) to slay, kill ruthlessly (fig.)
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.