רָצַח
ra.tsach
“to murder”
Definition
properly, to dash in pieces, i.e. kill (a human being), especially to murder
a primitive root;
- to murder, slay, kill 1a)(Qal) to murder, slay 1a1) premeditated 1a2) accidental 1a3) as avenger 1a4) slayer (intentional) (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be slain 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to murder, assassinate 1c2) murderer, assassin (participle) (subst) 1d) (Pual) to be killed
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logos (G3056)
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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
רָצַח appears 39 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: ‘In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there also the dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’”
You shall not murder.
When daylight is gone, the murderer risesto kill the poor and needy;in the night he is like a thief.
And from the tribe of Naphtali they were given Kedesh in Galilee (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Hammoth-dor, and Kartan—three cities, together with their pasturelands.
If anyone has in his hand a deadly object of wood, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
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