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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Slew
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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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25 occurrences in 24 verses.
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Genesis
77 verses
Exodus
22 verses
Leviticus
66 verses
Numbers
32 verses
Joshua
66 verses
Judges
2321 verses
1 Samuel
1717 verses
2 Samuel
2119 verses
1 Kings
1414 verses
2 Kings
2524 verses
1 Chronicles
1614 verses
2 Chronicles
1717 verses
Nehemiah
11 verses
Esther
44 verses
Psalms
55 verses
Isaiah
11 verses
Jeremiah
108 verses
Lamentations
11 verses
Ezekiel
44 verses
Daniel
22 verses
Matthew
44 verses
Luke
11 verses
Acts
33 verses
Romans
11 verses
1 John
21 verses
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.
נָכָה
nâkâh · naw-kaw'
57 times translated as this KJV form500 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 2:12Strong's last: Ezekiel 9:7
Open full H5221 profile →הָרַג
hârag · haw-rag'
56 times translated as this KJV form167 total Strong's occurrences
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 →מוּת
mûwth · mooth
40 times translated as this KJV form832 total Strong's occurrences
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 →שָׁחַט
shâchaṭ · shaw-khat'
21 times translated as this KJV form81 total Strong's occurrences
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 →ἀποκτείνω
apokteínō · ap-ok-ti'-no
4 times translated as this KJV form82 total Strong's occurrences
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 →חָלָל
châlâl · khaw-lawl'
4 times translated as this KJV form94 total Strong's occurrences
pierced (especially to death); figuratively, polluted
Strong's KJV usage: kill, profane, slain (man), × slew, (deadly) wounded.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Judges 16:24Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 11:20
Open full H2491 profile →ἀναιρέω
anairéō · an-ahee-reh'-o
3 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
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 →זָבַח
zâbach · zaw-bakh'
3 times translated as this KJV form134 total Strong's occurrences
to slaughter an animal (usually in sacrifice)
Strong's KJV usage: kill, offer, (do) sacrifice, slay.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 1:9Strong's last: 2 Kings 23:20
Open full H2076 profile →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
Open full G1315 profile →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.
Strong's first: 1 John 3:12Strong's last: 1 John 3:12
Open full G4969 profile →φονεύω
phoneúō · fon-yoo'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
to be a murderer (of)
Strong's KJV usage: :--kill, do murder, slay.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 23:35Strong's last: Matthew 23:35
Open full G5407 profile →הָוָא
hâvâʼ · hav-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form66 total Strong's occurrences
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 →נָפַל
nâphal · naw-fal'
1 times translated as this KJV form435 total Strong's occurrences
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 →קְטַל
qᵉṭal · ket-al'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to kill
Strong's KJV usage: slay.
Strong's first: Daniel 3:22Strong's last: Daniel 3:22
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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.
H2026
And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
H2026
And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
H2026
And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.
H4191
And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.
H4191
And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.
H2026
O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
H5221
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
H2026
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
H7819
And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.
H7819
And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
H7819
Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
H7819
And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar.
H7819
And he brought the people's offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.
H7819
He slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about,
H2026
And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
H2026
And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
H2026
And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
H5221
And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.
H2026
And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
H5221
And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
H2026
And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
H4191
And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
H4191
Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.
H5221
And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
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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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