הֲרֵגָה
hărêgâh · H2028 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Place
Meanings
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slaughter, butchery
The killing of domestic animals for food, sometimes extended to refer to the killing of people in a cruel and violent way
ExamplesJeremiah 7:32 “Therefore, behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when it will no longer be called Topheth, or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of the Slaughter; for they will bury in Topheth because there is no other place.
Jeremiah 12:3 But You know me, LORD; You see me And examine my heart’s attitude toward You. Drag them off like sheep for the slaughter, And set them apart for a day of slaughter!
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- גַּיְאvalley 2
- צֹאןflock, small cattle, sheep and goats 2
- יוֹםday, time 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 5 words
- טִבְחָה ṭibchâh · H2878 · slaughter, meat
- Both words denote “slaughter”; טִבְחָה (ṭibchâh, H2878) also carries the broader sense “flesh,” so the overlap is partial.
- קֶטֶל qeṭel · H6993 · killing
- This is genuine same-language near-synonymy—two distinct Hebrew words with overlapping senses that could substitute in context.
- טֶבַח ṭebach · H2874 · killing, slaughter, butchering, killing, slaughter
- Both words denote slaughter or killing as Hebrew nouns, and can substitute in contexts describing acts of killing.
- רֶצַח retsach · H7524 · murder, great distress, agony
- Both are nouns denoting violent killing or slaughter, sharing the gloss "slaughter" directly.
- שָׁחַט shâchaṭ · H7819 · to slaughter, to kill
- שָׁחַט (shâchaṭ, H7819) has broader application (includes cultic sacrifice), but the core slaughter sense overlaps.
In the other Testament 1 word
- σφαγή sphagḗ · G4967 · slaughter, killing, day of condemnation
- Greek term used in LXX to translate this Hebrew term for violent killing/slaughter, maintaining the core sense of mass killing whether literal (sacrifice, warfare) or figurative (destruction).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Dead002001001018
- הֲרֵגָה likewise denotes slaughter, the act or result of mass killing.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2028. haregah הֲרֵגָה noun feminine slaughter; only absolute in following combinations,…
הֲרֵגָה noun feminine slaughter; only absolute in following combinations, ה ׳גֵּיא Jer 7:32; Jer 19:6 new name for בֶןהִֿנֹּם גֵּיא; ה ׳יוֺם Jer 12:3 of the wicked, i.e. day of judgment; ה ׳צאֹן Zec 11:4, Zec 11:7 i.e. Judah and Israel, slaughtered by their shepherds.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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