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.
196 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.
And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
And inquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved them by a great deliverance.
And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three.
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: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
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: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and 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 man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and 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 when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.
But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.
And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, that was of the children of the giant: and they were subdued.
And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam.
But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel.
And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.
But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there.
Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.
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SLEW, preterit tense of slay.
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