To slaughter
שָׁחַטStrong’s H7819shachat (sha-chat)
Appears in 70 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shachat is the Hebrew word usually translated “cut throat of”, “slaughtered” and “slaughter”. It appears in 70 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.”
Meaning
- To kill, slaughter, beat(Qal) · (Niphal) to be slaughtered, be slain (of food or sacrifice)
- (BDB) slaughteringword doubtful
How it's translated
- and he will cut throat of 13
- and they slaughtered 11
- and he cut throat of 6
- and you will slaughter 4
- someone cuts throat of 3
- he will cut throat of 3
- to slaughter 2
- and slaughter 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 30
- Exodus 6
- 2 Chronicles 6
- Ezekiel 6
- Jeremiah 4
- Numbers 3
14 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 37:31And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
- Exodus 12:6And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
- Exodus 12:21Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
- Exodus 29:11And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
- Exodus 29:16And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
- Exodus 29:20Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
All 70 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁחַט shachat · to slaughter
v 1) to kill, slaughter, beat 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to slaughter 1a1a) beast for food 1a1b) sacrifice 1a1c) person in human sacrifice 1a1d) beaten, hammered (of shekels) 1b) (Niphal) to be slaughtered, be slain (of food or sacrifice) Also means: sha.chat (שָׁחוּט "beaten" H7820)
שַׁחֲטָה shachatah · slaughtering
1) (BDB) slaughtering 1a) word doubtful
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.