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.
Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.
For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.
And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.
But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.
He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;
And slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:
He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.
Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the men of war.
And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.
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SLEW, preterit tense of slay.
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