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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Slay

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

117exact KJV occurrences 110Old Testament 7New Testament 29books containing the word 14mapped Strong's IDs 114occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 4:14

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.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 9:15

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.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where slay appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH4191
מוּת

mûwth · mooth

40 times translated as this KJV form832 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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HebrewH5221
נָכָה

nâkâh · naw-kaw'

11 times translated as this KJV form500 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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HebrewH6991
קָטַל

qâṭal · kaw-tal'

2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to cut off, i.e. (figuratively) put to death

Strong's KJV usage: kill, slay.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Job 13:15Strong's last: Psalms 139:19

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GreekG2380
θύω

thýō · thoo'-o

1 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences

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

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GreekG2695
κατασφάττω

kataspháttō · kat-as-fat'-to

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

to kill down, i.e. slaughter

Strong's KJV usage: :--slay.

Strong's first: Luke 19:27Strong's last: Luke 19:27

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HebrewH2763
חָרַם

châram · khaw-ram'

1 times translated as this KJV form52 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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3 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Clear
Judges 8:19
H2026

And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.

Judges 8:20
H2026

And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them. But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet a youth.

Judges 9:54
H4191

Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

slay

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.

SOURCE & METHOD

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Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

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