טִבְחָה
ṭibchâh · H2878 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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slaughter
Act of killing an animal by slicing the jugular vein and windpipe + with a sharp-bladed instrument
ExamplesPsalm 44:22 But for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
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!
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meat
The meat from animals that have been slaughtered and which has been or will be prepared for consumption
Examples1 Samuel 25:11 “Shall I then take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men whose origin I do not know?”
How it’s used In 5 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
- יmy 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- טָבַחto kill 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לָקַחto take, to receive 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- צֹאןflock, small cattle, sheep and goats 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 1 word
- הֲרֵגָה hărêgâh · H2028 · slaughter, butchery
- Both words denote “slaughter”; טִבְחָה (ṭibchâh, H2878) also carries the broader sense “flesh,” so the overlap is partial.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Dead002001001018
- טִבְחָה names a slaughter or the flesh of a slaughtered animal, used of meat prepared for a meal (1 Samuel 25:11) and figuratively of Israel set apart for a day of slaughter (Jeremiah 12:3).
- Animals001001002
- The word can refer concretely to the slaughtered animal itself, the flesh prepared from livestock for eating.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2878. tibchah טִבְחָה noun feminine thing slaughtered, slaughtered meat, slaughter — l.…
טִבְחָה noun feminine thing slaughtered, slaughtered meat, slaughter —
l. suffix טִבְחָתִי as accusative of congnate meaning with verb after טָבַח 1Sa 25:11 of meat killed for food:
2 slaughter for food (= I. טֶבַח
1): ט ׳כְּצאֹן Psa 44:23 like a flock for slaughter, simile of the harassed godly; לְטִבְחָה כְּצאֹן Jer 12:3 simile of judgment of wicked (|| הֲרֵגָה לְיוֺם).
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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