טָבַח
ta.vach
“to slaughter”
Definition
to slaughter (animals or men)
a primitive root;
- to slaughter, slay, butcher, kill ruthlessly 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to slaughter, butcher 1a2) to slay, kill ruthlessly (fig.)
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
טָבַח appears 9 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?”
Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.
When Joseph saw Benjamin with his brothers, he said to the steward of his house, “Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they shall dine with me at noon.”
For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter;I did not know that they had plotted against me:“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit;let us cut him off from the land of the living,that his name may be remembered no more.”
Wail, you shepherds, and cry out;roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock.For the days of your slaughter have come;you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.
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