To slay
קָטַלStrong’s H6991qatal (qa-tal)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qatal is the Hebrew word usually translated “kill me”, “kills” and “kill”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to slay, kill
How it's translated
- he will kill me 1
- he kills 1
- you will kill 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
קָטַל qatal · to slay
(Qal) to slay, kill Aramaic equivalent: qe.tal (קְטַל "to slay" H6992)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “slay” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SLAY, verb transitive
preterit tense slew; participle passive slain. [The proper sense is to strike, and as beating was an early mode of killing, this word, like smite, came to signify to kill. It seems to be formed on the root of lay; as we say to lay on.]
- To kill; to put to death by a weapon or by violence.
- To destroy.
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.