קֶטֶל
qeṭel · H6993 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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killing
Causative action by which humans or deities cause people to die
ExamplesObadiah 1:9 “Then your warriors will be filled with terror, Teman, So that everyone will be eliminated from the mountain of Esau by murder.
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
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 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 5 words
- הֲרֵגָה hărêgâh · H2028 · slaughter, butchery
- This is genuine same-language near-synonymy—two distinct Hebrew words with overlapping senses that could substitute in context.
- קֶטֶב qeṭeb · H6986 · pestilence, plague, deadly disease
- Both words denote violent death or destruction, overlapping in the sense of destruction and slaughter.
- שְׁחִיטָה shᵉchîyṭâh · H7821 · slaughtering
- Both lexemes denote the act of killing/slaughter—genuine same-language near-synonyms with overlapping sense. The domain co-membership is real but the evidence base is thin and unverified at the verse level.
- הֶרֶג hereg · H2027 · slaughter
- Both words denote slaughter or being slain, referring to the act or state of slaughter.
- שָׁחַט shâchaṭ · H7819 · to slaughter, to kill
- קֶטֶל (qeṭel, H6993) is a noun meaning "slaughter" and occurs only once, while שָׁחַט (shâchaṭ, H7819) is a frequent verb meaning "kill" or "slaughter," including both cultic and general killing; the two are related through the action of killing.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Dead002001001018
- The word means slaughter, illustrated by Obadiah's oracle that everyone on the mountain of Esau will be eliminated by murder (Obadiah 1:9).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6993. qetel [קֶ֫טֶל] noun [masculine]] slaughter; — ᵑ0 מִקָּ֑טֶל Obadiah 9, but join to…
[קֶ֫טֶל] noun [masculine]] slaughter; — ᵑ0 מִקָּ֑טֶל Obadiah 9, but join to Psa 139:10 (then מִקֶּטֶל), ᵐ5 We Now GASm.
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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