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Slaughter

קֶ֫טֶלStrong’s H6993

qetel (qe-tel)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Qetel is the Hebrew word usually translated “from slaughter”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.”
Obadiah 1:9 KJV
Meaning
  1. Slaughter
How it's translated
  • from slaughter 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Obadiah 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    קֶ֫טֶל qetel · slaughter

    slaughter

    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.]

    1. In a general sense, a killing.
    2. 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.

      1. To kill; to slay; to make great destruction of life; as, to slaughter men in battle.
      2. 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.