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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
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Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.
For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;
And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.
Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?
Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?
But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
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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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