Slaughtering
שְׁחִיטָהStrong’s H7821shechitah (she-chi-tah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shechitah is the Hebrew word usually translated “slaughter of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.”
Meaning
- Slaughtering, killing, slaying (of act)
How it's translated
- slaughter of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁחִיטָה shechitah · slaughtering
slaughtering, killing, slaying (of act)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “slaughtering” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SLAUGHTERING, participle present
tense slaw'tering, Killing; destroying human life; butchering.
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.