טֶבַח
ṭebach · H2874 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences
Meanings
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killing / slaughter / butchering
An action by which humans kill animals by slicing the jugular vein and windpipe with a sharp-bladed instrument to prepare the meat for a meal, associated with aggression
ExamplesGenesis 43:16 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to his house steward, “Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal and make preparations; for the men are to dine with me at noon.”
Proverbs 7:22 Suddenly he follows her As an ox goes to the slaughter, Or as one walks in ankle bracelets to the discipline of a fool,
Proverbs 9:2 She has prepared her food, she has mixed her wine; She has also set her table;
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killing, slaughter, butchering
Causative action by which humans kill other humans like an animal, with a sharp-bladed instrument; associated with anger, power, callousness (of the killer), and helplessness (of the victim)
ExamplesIsaiah 34:2 For the LORD’S anger is against all the nations, And His wrath against all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them, He has turned them over to slaughter.
Isaiah 65:12 I will destine you for the sword, And all of you will bow down to the slaughter. Because I called, but you did not answer; I spoke, but you did not listen. Instead, you did evil in My sight And chose that in which I did not delight.”
Jeremiah 48:15 “Moab has been destroyed and men have gone up to his cities; His choicest young men have also gone down to the slaughter,” Declares the King, whose name is the LORD of armies.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הּher 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גָּדוֹלgreat, large 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- טָבַחto kill 3
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
8 occurrences in 2 groups
- לto/for 13
- אֵלto, toward 2
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 1 word
- הֲרֵגָה hărêgâh · H2028 · slaughter, butchery
- Both words are Hebrew nouns denoting slaughter and killing, and could substitute in contexts describing acts of killing.
In the other Testament 2 words
- σφαγή sphagḗ · G4967 · slaughter, killing, day of condemnation
- Greek σφαγή denotes the act of slaughter/butchery itself (both literal animal slaughter and figurative destruction), closely paralleling Hebrew טֶבַח's core semantic range of slaughter/butchery across contexts.
- σφάγιον sphágion · G4968 · sacrifice
- Greek σφάγιον specifically denotes a sacrificial victim or slaughtered animal in ritual contexts, while Hebrew טֶבַח has broader semantic range covering general slaughter, butchered meat, and animals for slaughter in both sacred and profane contexts.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Dead002001001018
- טֶבַח names a slaughter, most often of an animal killed for food, as the animal slaughtered for the meal prepared for Joseph's brothers (Genesis 43:16) and the ox led to the slaughter in Proverbs 7:22.
- Names of People003001007
- This entry carries no independent "Names of People" sense of its own; every genuine tagged occurrence of טֶבַח denotes slaughter or the act of slaying, whether of animals for a meal (Genesis 43:16) or of nations in judgment (Isaiah 34:2, 34:6), not a personal name. The domain is bundle-shared with the similarly-spelled proper name Tebah (טֶבַח (Ṭebach, H2875)). See טֶבַח (Ṭebach, H2875).
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2874. tebach I. טֶ֫בַח noun masculineIsa 34:6 slaughtering, slaughter — absolute ׳ט Gen…
I. טֶ֫בַח noun masculineIsa 34:6 slaughtering, slaughter — absolute ׳ט Gen 43:16 Gen 43:6t.; טָ֑בַח Eze 21:20 Eze 21:3t.; suffix טִבְחָהּ Pro 9:2; —
1 slaughtering, slaughter, of animals for food; as accusative of congnate meaning with verb after טָבַח (q. v.) Gen 43:16 (J), Pro 9:2; לַטּ ׳כַּשֶּׂה יוּבָ֑ל Isa 53:7, simile of suffering servant of ׳י; also Pro 7:22 simile of fatuousness of one following a strange woman, thoughtless of consequences; לַטּ ׳יֵרְדוּ Jer 50:27 metaphor of Babylonian leaders, under figure of bullocks; so probably Jer 48:15, and perhaps ׳לַטּ תִּכְרָ֑עוּ Isa 65:12.
2 in poetry figurative slaughter, to which the nations are given over by ׳י Isa 34:2, specifically of Edom Isa 34:6 (|| זֶבַח; see ׳ז 6); of Israel Eze 21:20, as accusative of congnate meaning with verb after טָבַח Eze 21:15; of Ammon Ezekiel 21:33.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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