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Lexicon :: Strong's H7819 - šāḥaṭ

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שָׁחַט
Transliteration
šāḥaṭ
Pronunciation
shaw-khat'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun, verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2362

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁחַט shâchaṭ, shaw-khat'; a primitive root; to slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre):—kill, offer, shoot out, slay, slaughter.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 81x

The KJV translates Strong's H7819 in the following manner: kill (42x), slay (36x), offer (1x), shot out (1x), slaughter (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 81x
The KJV translates Strong's H7819 in the following manner: kill (42x), slay (36x), offer (1x), shot out (1x), slaughter (1x).
verb

  1. to kill, slaughter, beat

    1. (Qal)

      1. to slaughter

        1. beast for food

        2. sacrifice

        3. person in human sacrifice

        4. beaten, hammered (of shekels)

    2. (Niphal) to be slaughtered, be slain (of food or sacrifice)

      feminine noun

  2. (BDB) slaughtering

    1. word doubtful

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁחַט shâchaṭ, shaw-khat'; a primitive root; to slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre):—kill, offer, shoot out, slay, slaughter.
STRONGS H7819: Abbreviations
שָׁחַט 84 verb slaughter, beat (originally beat, flay? compare Assyrian šaḫâṭu, flay, take off dress; Arabic bdb100601 slay (but bdb100602 = ḫ; is this loan-word in Arabic ?); Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew, especially in ritual); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular שׁ׳ Jeremiah 39:6 +, suffix וּשְׁחָטוֺ consecutive Leviticus 3:2, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִשְׁחַט Leviticus 4:24 +, 2nd person feminine singular וַתִּשְׁחֲטִי Ezekiel 16:21, 3rd person masculine plural suffix וַיִּשְׁחָט֫וּהוּ Judges 12:6; Imperative masculine plural שַׁחֲטוּ Exodus 12:21; 2 Chronicles 35:6; Infinitive absolute שָׁחֹט Isaiah 22:13; construct לִשְׁחֹט Genesis 22:10, וֺט- Ezekiel 40:39, suffix שַׁחֲטָם (Ges§ 64 a) Ezekiel 23:39; Participle active שׁוֺחֵט Isaiah 66:3, etc.; passive שָׁחוּט [H7820 1 Kings 10:16] +, etc.; — slaughter:
1. beast for food 1 Samuel 14:32, 1 Samual 14:34 (twice in verse); Isaiah 22:13 (|| הָרַג), compare Leviticus 17:3 (twice in verse), for blood Genesis 37:31 (E).
2. usually (51 times; Hexateuch only P, 38 times) technical term of killing sacrifice (BJacobZAW xvii (1897), 5i), 1 Samuel 1:25; Exodus 29:11; Leviticus 1:5, Leviticus 1:11; Leviticus 4:24; Leviticus 9:8; Numbers 19:3; 2 Chronicles 29:22 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 29:24 +; absolute Ezekiel 40:41 (אֶל location); bird Leviticus 14:5, Leviticus 14:6, Leviticus 14:50, Leviticus 14:51; beast in illicit sacrifice Isaiah 66:3; with accusative of sacrifice (עוֺלָה, אָשָׁם, חַטָּאת, etc.) Ezekiel 40:39 (אֶל location), Ezekiel 40:42; Ezekiel 44:11; Leviticus 4:24; Leviticus 7:2; Leviticus 14:13 +; passover lamb † Exodus 12:6, accusative הַפֶּסַח Exodus 12:21; 2 Chronicles 30:15; 2 Chronicles 35:1, 2 Chronicles 35:6,11; Ezra 6:20.
3. slaughter person Judges 12:6; 1 Kings 18:40; 2 Kings 10:7, 2 Kings 10:14 (אֶל location), 2 Kings 25:7 = Jeremiah 39:6a = Jeremiah 52:10a, Jeremiah 39:6b = Jeremiah 52:10b, Jeremiah 41:7; י׳ subject Numbers 14:16 (JE); in human sacrifice Genesis 22:10 (E), to false gods Ezekiel 16:21; Ezekiel 23:39; Isaiah 57:5.
4. passive participle = beaten, hammered,
[H7820 זָהָב שָׁחוּט 1 Kings 10:16, 17; 2 Chronicles 9:15a, 16, of shekels 2 Chronicles 9:15];
so also Jeremiah 9:7 [Jeremiah 9:8] Qr חֵץשָׁחוּט (> Kt שׁוֺחֵט) hammered (i.e. sharpened) arrow.
† Niph. Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִשָּׁחֵט Numbers 11:22 (J) be slaughtered for food (subject beast); 3rd person feminine singular תִּשָּׁחֵט Leviticus 6:18 [Leviticus 6:25] (twice in verse) (P) be slain, of sacrifice.

† שַׁחֲטָה noun feminine (Qal Infinitive construct Köi. 263) doubtful word; — שֵׂטִים הֶעְמִיקוּ וְשׁ׳ Hosea 5:2 RV (compare AV) the revolters are gone deep in slaughtering ['Opferschlächterei' Köii. 1. 590, n. 1], Ew Now (formerly), Che in corrupting (read then שַׁחֲתָה); We Now GASm Marti שַׁחַת הַשִּׁטִּים have made deep the pit of Shiṭṭim (as place of idolatry).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

22:10; 22:10; 37:31

Exodus

12:6; 12:21; 12:21; 29:11

Leviticus

1:5; 1:11; 3:2; 4:24; 4:24; 4:24; 6:25; 7:2; 9:8; 14:5; 14:6; 14:13; 14:50; 14:51; 17:3

Numbers

11:22; 14:16; 19:3

Judges

12:6; 12:6

1 Samuel

1:25; 14:32; 14:34

1 Kings

18:40

2 Kings

10:7; 10:14; 25:7

2 Chronicles

29:22; 29:24; 30:15; 35:1; 35:6; 35:6; 35:11

Ezra

6:20

Isaiah

22:13; 22:13; 57:5; 66:3; 66:3

Jeremiah

9:8; 39:6; 39:6; 39:6; 41:7; 52:10; 52:10

Ezekiel

16:21; 16:21; 23:39; 23:39; 40:39; 40:39; 40:41; 40:42; 44:11

Hosea

5:2

H7819

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Strong's Number H7819 matches the Hebrew שָׁחַט (šāḥaṭ),
which occurs 82 times in 70 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 22:10–2Ch 29:22)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:10 - Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to [fn]kill his son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:31 - Then they took Joseph’s tunic, slaughtered a male goat and dipped the tunic in the blood;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:6 - ‘You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to slaughter it [fn]at twilight.

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Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and take a lamb for yourselves according to [the size of] your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:11 - “Then you shall kill the bull before the LORD by the doorway of the Tent of Meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:16 - then you shall kill the ram and you shall take its blood and sprinkle it around the altar [of burnt offering].

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:20 - “Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ears of Aaron and his sons and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet, and sprinkle the [rest of the] blood around on the altar [of burnt offering].

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“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover (Unleavened Bread) be left over until morning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:5 - ‘He shall kill the young bull before the LORD; and Aaron’s sons the priests shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:11 - ‘He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the LORD, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:2 - ‘He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering [transferring symbolically his guilt to the sacrifice] and kill it at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting; and Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:8 - and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it before the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:13 - and he shall lay his hand on its head [transferring symbolically his guilt to the sacrifice], and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:4 - ‘He shall bring the bull to the doorway of the Tent of Meeting before the LORD, and shall lay his hand on the bull’s head [transferring symbolically his guilt to the sacrifice] and kill the bull before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:15 - ‘Then the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the LORD [to transfer symbolically the congregation’s guilt to the sacrifice], and they shall kill the bull before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:24 - ‘He shall lay his hand on the head of the male goat [transferring symbolically his guilt to the sacrifice], and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD; it is a sin offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:29 - ‘He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering [transferring symbolically his guilt to the sacrifice], and kill it at the place of the burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:33 - ‘He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering [transferring symbolically his guilt to the sacrifice], and kill it as a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:25 - “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: the sin offering shall be killed before the LORD in the [same] place where the burnt offering is killed; it is most holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:2 - ‘In the place where they kill the burnt offering they are to kill the guilt offering, and he shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:15 - Next Moses killed it and took the blood and with his finger put some of it around on the horns of the altar and purified it [from sin]. Then he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it, to make atonement for it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:19 - Moses killed it and sprinkled the blood around on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:23 - Moses killed it and took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

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So Aaron approached the altar and killed the calf as the sin offering, which was designated for himself.

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Then he killed the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons handed the blood to him and he sprinkled it around on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:15 -

Then Aaron presented the people’s offering. He took the goat for the sin offering of the people, and killed it and offered it for sin, as he did the first.

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He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings which was for the people; and Aaron’s sons handed the blood to him and he sprinkled it around on the altar,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:5 - “Next the priest shall order that one of the birds be killed [as a sacrifice] in an earthenware container over [fresh] [fn]running water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:6 - “As for the live bird, he shall take it together with the cedar wood and the scarlet string and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird sacrificed over the running water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:13 - “He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the sacred place [the courtyard of the tabernacle]; for the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:19 - “Next the priest shall offer the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness, and afterward kill the burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:25 - “Next he shall kill the lamb of the guilt offering; and the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:50 - and he shall kill one of the birds in an earthenware container over running water,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:51

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:51 - and he shall take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet string, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird as well as in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

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“Aaron shall present the bull as the sin offering for himself and make atonement for himself and for his household (the other priests), and he shall kill the bull as the sin offering for himself.

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“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for [the sins of] the people and bring its blood within the veil [into the Most Holy Place] and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and in front of the mercy seat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:3 - “Any man from the house of Israel who kills an ox or lamb or goat in the camp, or kills it outside the camp

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:28 - “And whether [the mother] is a cow or a sheep, you shall not kill both it and its young in one day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:22 - “Should flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Or should all the fish of the sea be collected for them to be sufficient for them?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:16 - ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring these people into the land which He promised to give them, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:3 - ‘You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be brought outside the camp and be slaughtered in his presence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - they said to him, “Then say ‘Shibboleth.’” And he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not [fn]pronounce it correctly. Then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites fell.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:25 - Then they slaughtered the bull, and brought the child to Eli.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:32 - [When night came and the oath ended] the people rushed greedily upon the spoil. They took sheep, oxen, and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground; and they ate them [raw] with the blood [still in them].

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:34 - Saul said, “Spread out among the people and tell them, ‘Each one of you bring me his ox or his sheep, and butcher it [properly] here and eat; and do not sin against the LORD by eating [the meat with] the blood.’” So that night each one brought his ox with him and butchered it there.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:40 - Then Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; do not let one of them escape.” They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and [as God’s law required] killed them there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:7 - When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:14 - Then Jehu said, “Take them alive.” So they took them alive and [later] slaughtered them at the well by the place of the sand heaps, forty-two men; he left none of them [alive].

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:7 - They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, then put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him [hand and foot] with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:22 - So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and sprinkled it on the altar. They also slaughtered the rams and sprinkled the blood on the altar; then they slaughtered the lambs and sprinkled the blood on the altar.

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