To slay
קְטַלStrong’s H6992qetal (qe-tal)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qetal is the Aramaic word usually translated “about to be killed”, “killed” and “kill”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.”
Meaning
- To slay, kill(P'al) to be slain · (Pael) to slay · (Ithp'al) to be slain · (Ithpael) to be slain
How it's translated
- about to be killed 1
- to be killed 1
- to kill 1
- it killed 1
- killing 1
- he was killed 1
- it was killed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 6
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:14In contextThen Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:
- Daniel 3:22In contextTherefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
- Daniel 5:19In contextAnd for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.
- Daniel 5:30In contextIn that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
- Daniel 7:11In contextI beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
Aramaic dictionary
קְטַל qetal · to slay
1) to slay, kill 1a) (P'al) to be slain 1b) (Pael) to slay 1c) (Ithp'al) to be slain 1d) (Ithpael) to be slain
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.