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Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Read in context →And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
Read in context →12 occurrences in 12 verses.
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mûwth · mooth
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
Strong's KJV usage: × at all, × crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), × must needs, slay, × surely, × very suddenly, × in (no) wise.
Strong's first: Genesis 18:25Strong's last: Hosea 9:16
Open full H4191 profile →hârag · haw-rag'
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: Genesis 20:4Strong's last: Zechariah 11:5
Open full H2026 profile →nâkâh · naw-kaw'
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), × go forward, × indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, × surely, wound.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 19:6Strong's last: Jeremiah 40:15
Open full H5221 profile →shâchaṭ · shaw-khat'
to slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre)
Strong's KJV usage: kill, offer, shoot out, slay, slaughter.
Strong's first: Genesis 22:10Strong's last: Ezekiel 44:11
Open full H7819 profile →apokteínō · ap-ok-ti'-no
to kill outright; figuratively, to destroy
Strong's KJV usage: :--put to death, kill, slay.
Strong's first: Luke 11:49Strong's last: Revelation 9:15
Open full G615 profile →anairéō · an-ahee-reh'-o
to take up, i.e. adopt; by implication, to take away (violently), i.e. abolish, murder
Strong's KJV usage: :--put to death, kill, slay, take away, take up.
Strong's first: Acts 5:33Strong's last: Acts 9:29
Open full G337 profile →ṭâbach · taw-bakh'
to slaughter (animals or men)
Strong's KJV usage: kill, (make) slaughter, slay.
Strong's first: Genesis 43:16Strong's last: Psalms 37:14
Open full H2873 profile →qâṭal · kaw-tal'
properly, to cut off, i.e. (figuratively) put to death
Strong's KJV usage: kill, slay.
Strong's first: Job 13:15Strong's last: Psalms 139:19
Open full H6991 profile →thýō · thoo'-o
properly, to rush (breathe hard, blow, smoke), i.e. (by implication) to sacrifice (properly, by fire, but genitive case); by extension to immolate (slaughter for any purpose)
Strong's KJV usage: :--kill, (do) sacrifice, slay.
Strong's first: Acts 11:7Strong's last: Acts 11:7
Open full G2380 profile →kataspháttō · kat-as-fat'-to
to kill down, i.e. slaughter
Strong's KJV usage: :--slay.
Strong's first: Luke 19:27Strong's last: Luke 19:27
Open full G2695 profile →chârab · khaw-rab'
to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
Strong's KJV usage: decay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, × surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 50:27Strong's last: Jeremiah 50:27
Open full H2717 profile →châram · khaw-ram'
to seclude; specifically (by a ban) to devote to religious uses (especially destruction); physical and reflexive, to be blunt as to the nose
Strong's KJV usage: make accursed, consecrate, (utterly) destroy, devote, forfeit, have a flat nose, utterly (slay, make away).
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 20:23Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 20:23
Open full H2763 profile →mâveth · maw'-veth
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
Strong's KJV usage: (be) dead(-ly), death, die(-d).
Strong's first: Jeremiah 18:23Strong's last: Jeremiah 18:23
Open full H4194 profile →qᵉṭal · ket-al'
to kill
Strong's KJV usage: slay.
Strong's first: Daniel 2:14Strong's last: Daniel 2:14
Open full H6992 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them.
Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.
So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.
And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.
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SLAY, verb transitive preterit tense slew; participle passive slain. [The proper sense is to strike, and as beating was an early mode of killing, this word, like smite, came to signify to kill. It seems to be formed on the root of lay; as we say to lay on.]
1. To kill; to put to death by a weapon or by violence. We say, he slew a man with a sword, with a stone, or with a club, or with other arms; but we never say, the serif slays a malefactor with a halter, or a man is slain on the gallows or by poison. So the slay retains something of its primitive sense of striking or beating. It is particularly applied to killing in battle, but is properly applied also to the killing of a individual man or beast.
2. To destroy.
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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