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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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.
Read in context →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.
Read in context →25 occurrences in 24 verses.
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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.
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: Exodus 2:12Strong's last: Ezekiel 9:7
Open full H5221 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 4:25Strong's last: Ezekiel 23:10
Open full H2026 profile →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 38:7Strong's last: Jeremiah 41:8
Open full H4191 profile →shâchaṭ · shaw-khat'
to slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre)
Strong's KJV usage: kill, offer, shoot out, slay, slaughter.
Strong's first: Leviticus 8:15Strong's last: Ezekiel 40:42
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: Matthew 21:39Strong's last: Romans 7:11
Open full G615 profile →châlâl · khaw-lawl'
pierced (especially to death); figuratively, polluted
Strong's KJV usage: kill, profane, slain (man), × slew, (deadly) wounded.
Strong's first: Judges 16:24Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 11:20
Open full H2491 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: Matthew 2:16Strong's last: Acts 22:20
Open full G337 profile →zâbach · zaw-bakh'
to slaughter an animal (usually in sacrifice)
Strong's KJV usage: kill, offer, (do) sacrifice, slay.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 1:9Strong's last: 2 Kings 23:20
Open full H2076 profile →diacheirízomai · dee-akh-i-rid'-zom-ahee
to handle thoroughly, i.e. lay violent hands upon
Strong's KJV usage: :--kill, slay.
Strong's first: Acts 5:30Strong's last: Acts 5:30
Open full G1315 profile →spházō · sfad'-zo
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.
Strong's first: 1 John 3:12Strong's last: 1 John 3:12
Open full G4969 profile →phoneúō · fon-yoo'-o
to be a murderer (of)
Strong's KJV usage: :--kill, do murder, slay.
Strong's first: Matthew 23:35Strong's last: Matthew 23:35
Open full G5407 profile →hâvâʼ · hav-aw'
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
Open full H1934 profile →nâphal · naw-fal'
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
Open full H5307 profile →qᵉṭal · ket-al'
to kill
Strong's KJV usage: slay.
Strong's first: Daniel 3:22Strong's last: Daniel 3:22
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.
21 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
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.
So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
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.
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:
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.
And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
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.
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.
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.
And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
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.
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.
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.
And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.
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.
But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.
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.
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:
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:
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.
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.
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SLEW, preterit tense of slay.
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