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Slew

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.

196exact KJV occurrences 185Old Testament 11New Testament 25books containing the word 14mapped Strong's IDs 194occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 4:8

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

1 John 3:12

Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where slew 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.

HebrewH5221
נָכָה

nâkâh · naw-kaw'

57 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: Exodus 2:12Strong's last: Ezekiel 9:7

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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 38:7Strong's last: Jeremiah 41:8

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GreekG1315
διαχειρίζομαι

diacheirízomai · dee-akh-i-rid'-zom-ahee

1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

to handle thoroughly, i.e. lay violent hands upon

Strong's KJV usage: :--kill, slay.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Acts 5:30Strong's last: Acts 5:30

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GreekG4969
σφάζω

spházō · sfad'-zo

1 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences

to butcher (especially an animal for food or in sacrifice) or (generally) to slaughter, or (specially), to maim (violently)

Strong's KJV usage: :--kill, slay, wound.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 1 John 3:12Strong's last: 1 John 3:12

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AramaicH1934
הָוָא

hâvâʼ · hav-aw'

1 times translated as this KJV form66 total Strong's occurrences

v

to exist; used in a great variety of applications (especially in connection with other words)

Strong's KJV usage: be, become, behold, came (to pass), cease, cleave, consider, do, give, have, judge, keep, labour, mingle (self), put, see, seek, set, slay, take heed, tremble, walk, would.

Strong's first: Daniel 5:19Strong's last: Daniel 5:19

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HebrewH5307
נָפַל

nâphal · naw-fal'

1 times translated as this KJV form435 total Strong's occurrences

v

to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)

Strong's KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (× hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, × surely, throw down.

Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 32:21Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 32:21

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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2 Samuel 1:10
H4191

So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.

2 Samuel 3:30
H2026

So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

2 Samuel 4:7
H4191

For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.

2 Samuel 4:10
H2026

When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:

2 Samuel 4:12
H2026

And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

2 Samuel 8:5
H5221

And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

2 Samuel 10:18
H2026

And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.

2 Samuel 14:6
H4191

And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.

2 Samuel 14:7
H2026

And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.

2 Samuel 18:15
H4191

And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

2 Samuel 21:1
H4191

Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

2 Samuel 21:18
H5221

And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.

2 Samuel 21:19
H5221

And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

2 Samuel 21:21
H5221

And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.

2 Samuel 23:8
H2491

These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.

2 Samuel 23:12
H5221

But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.

2 Samuel 23:18
H2491

And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.

2 Samuel 23:20
H5221

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:

2 Samuel 23:20
H5221

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:

2 Samuel 23:21
H2026

And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

2 Samuel 23:21
H5221

And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

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

slew

SLEW, preterit tense of slay.

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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