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Sacrifice

דְּבַחStrong’s H4196

devach (de-vach)

Appears in 338 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Devach is the Hebrew word usually translated “altar”, “altar of” and “altar towards”. It appears in 338 verses of the Old Testament.

“The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.”
Zechariah 9:15 KJV
Meaning
  1. Sacrifice
How it's translated
  • the altar 160
  • altar of 63
  • an altar 38
  • the altar towards 32
  • altars 14
  • the altars 12
  • altars their 10
  • altar my 8

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Leviticus 71
  • Exodus 51
  • 2 Chronicles 35
  • 1 Kings 29
  • Numbers 26
  • 2 Kings 19

25 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 338 verses, by book
2 Samuel 3
24:1824:2124:25
Ezra 2
3:23:3
Nehemiah 1
10:34
Jeremiah 3
11:1317:117:2
Lamentations 1
2:7
Joel 2
1:132:17
Zechariah 2
9:1514:20
Malachi 3
1:71:102:13
Hebrew dictionary

דְּבַח devach · sacrifice

sacrifice Aramaic of miz.be.ach (מִזְבֵּחַ "altar" H4196)

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.]

  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. To devote with loss.
  4. 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.]

      1. 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.
      2. The thing offered to God, or immolated by an act of religion.
      3. 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.
      4. 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.