Numbers 35:16
And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
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Murderer
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1 John 3:15
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
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רָצַח
râtsach · raw-tsakh'
13 times translated as this KJV form46 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to dash in pieces, i.e. kill (a human being), especially to murder
Strong's KJV usage: put to death, kill, (man-) slay(-er), murder(-er).
Strong's first: Numbers 35:16Strong's last: Job 24:14
Open full H7523 profile →ἀνθρωποκτόνος
anthrōpoktónos · anth-ro-pok-ton'-os
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a manslayer
Strong's KJV usage: :--murderer.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 8:44Strong's last: 1 John 3:15
Open full G443 profile →φονεύς
phoneús · fon-yooce'
3 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
a murderer (always of criminal (or at least intentional) homicide; which G443 does not necessarily imply; while G4607 is a special term for a public bandit)
Strong's KJV usage: :--murderer.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 3:14Strong's last: 1 Peter 4:15
Open full G5406 profile →הָרַג
hârag · haw-rag'
1 times translated as this KJV form167 total Strong's occurrences
to smite with deadly intent
Strong's KJV usage: destroy, out of hand, kill, murder(-er), put to (death), make (slaughter), slay(-er), × surely.
Strong's first: Hosea 9:13Strong's last: Hosea 9:13
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H7523
And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
H7523
And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
H7523
And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
H7523
And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
H7523
Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
H7523
Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
H7523
The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
H7523
Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.
H7523
Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.
H7523
Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
H7523
Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
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murderer
MUR'DERER, noun A person who in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.
1. A small piece of ordnance.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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