מַטְבֵּחַ
maṭbêach · H4293 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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slaughtering place
A place where slaughter takes place
ExamplesIsaiah 14:21 “Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons Because of the wrongdoing of their fathers. They must not arise and take possession of the earth, And fill the surface of the world with cities.”
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
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כּוּןto establish, to prepare 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
- הֶרֶג hereg · H2027 · slaughter
- הֶרֶג is a Hebrew noun meaning 'slaughter' or 'slaying' (e.g., Jer 12:3, Ezek 21:15), semantically overlapping with מַטְבֵּחַ but derived from a different root (הרג rather than טבח), and interchangeable in contexts referring to mass killing or the place/act of slaughter.
In the other Testament 1 word
- σφαγή sphagḗ · G4967 · slaughter, killing, day of condemnation
- σφαγή is the standard Greek noun for 'slaughter' or 'slaying,' used both literally and figuratively (e.g., Acts 8:32 citing Isa 53:7, Rom 8:36 citing Ps 44:22), and serves as the natural translation equivalent for Hebrew מַטְבֵּחַ in contexts denoting the act or place of slaughter.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Space002002001017
- מַטְבֵּחַ, occurring once in Genesis 43:16, names the place or area designated for slaughtering, a spatial location rather than the act itself.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4293. matbeach מַטְבֵּחַ noun [masculine] slaughtering-place (Phoenician מטבח id. CISi.…
מַטְבֵּחַ noun [masculine] slaughtering-place (Phoenician מטבח id. CISi. 175), Isa 14:21, for Babylonians (under implicit figurative of animals).
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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