שְׁחִיטָה
shᵉchîyṭâh · H7821 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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slaughtering
Causative action by which humans kill animals, normally by cutting their throats, for ritual purposes or for food
Examples2 Chronicles 30:17 For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves; therefore, the Levites were in charge of the slaughter of the Passover lambs for everyone who was unclean, in order to consecrate them to the LORD.
How it’s used In 3 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
- פֶּסַחpassover 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֵוִיִּיLevite 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 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 2 words
- הֶרֶג hereg · H2027 · slaughter
- Both words denote the act or state of killing or slaughter, concrete nouns for an event or state of violent death.
- קֶטֶל qeṭel · H6993 · killing
- 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.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Dead002001001018
- The word names the act of slaughter, as in 2 Chronicles 30:17's "the Levites were in charge of the slaughter of the Passover lambs for everyone who was unclean." (This entry's other sampled citation, Hosea 5:2, does not itself show this sense in the given excerpt.)
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7821. shchiytah [שְׁחִיטָה] noun feminine act of slaying; — construct הַמְּסָחִים…
[שְׁחִיטָה] noun feminine act of slaying; — construct הַמְּסָחִים שְׁחִיטַת2Ch 30:17.
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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