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Hebrew verb · H2076

זָבַח

zabachzaw-bakh'

to sacrifice

134 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: zâbach

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2076is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 24 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 103
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2076

to slaughter an animal (usually in sacrifice)

The King James renders it: kill, offer, (do) sacrifice, slay.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

zabach is rendered "to sacrifice". It stands 134 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-four books.

  • Eighteen of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:54Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.
  • The Greek text spells it 103 different ways.

The first use

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.

Genesis 31:54וַיִּזְבַּ֨ח

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • sacrificing18
  • to sacrifice16
  • and he sacrificed13
  • and they sacrificed12
  • you will sacrifice7
  • sacrifice5
  • and you will sacrifice4
  • I will sacrifice4
  • sacrifices3
  • they sacrifice3
  • they sacrificed3
  • and he has sacrificed2

and 35 more, 134 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

זָבַדzabadto endowUses1
זָבַלzabalto honourUses1

All 134, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

103 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • מְזַבְּחִ֥ים5
  • וַיִּזְבַּ֣ח4
  • וַיִּזְבְּחוּ־4
  • וַ֠יִּזְבַּח3
  • וַיִּזְבְּח֣וּ3
  • לִזְבֹּ֖חַ3
  • מְזַבְּחִים֙3
  • אֶזְבְּחָה־2
  • וַיְזַבֵּ֧חַ2
  • וַיִּזְבַּ֥ח2
  • וַיִּזְבַּ֖ח2
  • זֹבֵ֥חַ2

and 91 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vqw3ms15Hc/Vqw3ms
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)14HR/Vqcc
  • Hc/Vqw3mp13Hc/Vqw3mp
  • verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural9HVprmpa
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular7HVqrmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural6HVqi2mp
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural6HVqrmpa
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular5HVqi2ms
  • Hc/Vqq2ms4Hc/Vqq2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural4HVqi3mp
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural3HVpi3mp
  • Hc/Vpw3ms2Hc/Vpw3ms

Genesis

two uses
  • Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.

    Genesis 31:54

    • וַיִּזְבַּ֨חvaiyizbachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he sacrificed
  • So Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

    Genesis 46:1

    • וַיִּזְבַּ֣חvaiyizbachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he sacrificed

Exodus

eighteen uses
  • The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’

    Exodus 3:18

    • וְנִזְבְּחָ֖הvenizbechahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: and let us sacrifice
  • “The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”

    Exodus 5:3

    • וְנִזְבְּחָה֙venizbechahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: and let us sacrifice
  • But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

    Exodus 5:8

    • נִזְבְּחָ֥הnizbechahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: let us sacrifice
  • “You are slackers!” Pharaoh replied. “Slackers! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’

    Exodus 5:17

    • נִזְבְּחָ֥הnizbechahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: let us sacrifice
  • Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the LORD to take the frogs away from me and my people. Then I will let your people go, that they may sacrifice to the LORD.”

    Exodus 8:8

    • וְיִזְבְּח֖וּveyizbechuHC/Vqu3mptagged: so they may sacrifice
  • Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within this land.”

    Exodus 8:25

    • זִבְח֥וּzivchuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: sacrifice
  • But Moses replied, “It would not be right to do that, because the sacrifices we offer to the LORD our God would be detestable to the Egyptians. If we offer sacrifices that are detestable before the Egyptians, will they not stone us?

    Exodus 8:26

    • נִזְבַּ֖חnizbachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will sacrifice
    • נִזְבַּ֞חnizbachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will sacrifice
  • We must make a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He commands us.”

    Exodus 8:27

    • וְזָבַ֙חְנוּ֙vezavachnuHc/Vqq1cptagged: and we will sacrifice
  • Pharaoh answered, “I will let you go and sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.”

    Exodus 8:28

    • וּזְבַחְתֶּ֞םuzevachtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will sacrifice
  • “As soon as I leave you,” Moses said, “I will pray to the LORD, so that tomorrow the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh and his officials and his people. But Pharaoh must not act deceitfully again by refusing to let the people go and sacrifice to the LORD.”

    Exodus 8:29

    • לִזְבֹּ֖חַlizboachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sacrifice
  • And when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast. This is why I sacrifice to the LORD the firstborn male of every womb, but I redeem all the firstborn of my sons.’

    Exodus 13:15

    • זֹבֵ֜חַzoveachverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: sacrificing
  • You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.

    Exodus 20:24

    • וְזָבַחְתָּ֣vezavachtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will sacrifice
  • If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.

    Exodus 22:20

    • זֹבֵ֥חַzoveachverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: sacrifices
  • You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.

    Exodus 23:18

    • תִזְבַּ֥חtizbachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you must sacrifice
  • Then he sent out some young men of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD.

    Exodus 24:5

    • וַֽיִּזְבְּח֞וּvaiyizbechuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they sacrificed
  • How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”

    Exodus 32:8

    • וַיִּזְבְּחוּ־vaiyizbechu-Hc/Vqw3mptagged: and they have sacrificed
  • Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.

    Exodus 34:15

    • וְזָבְחוּ֙vezavechuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will sacrifice

Leviticus

eight uses
  • an ox and a ram for a peace offering to sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with oil. For today the LORD will appear to you.’”

    Leviticus 9:4

    • לִזְבֹּ֙חַ֙lizboachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sacrifice
  • For this reason the Israelites will bring to the LORD the sacrifices they have been offering in the open fields. They are to bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and offer them as sacrifices of peace to the LORD.

    Leviticus 17:5

    • זֹבְחִים֮zoechimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: sacrificing
    • וְזָ֨בְח֜וּvezavechuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will sacrifice
  • They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.’

    Leviticus 17:7

    • יִזְבְּח֥וּyizbechuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will sacrifice
  • When you sacrifice a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance.

    Leviticus 19:5

    • תִזְבְּח֛וּtizbechuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will sacrifice
    • תִּזְבָּחֻֽהוּ׃tizbachuhuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you will sacrifice it
  • When you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, offer it so that it may be acceptable on your behalf.

    Leviticus 22:29

    • תִזְבְּח֥וּtizbechuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will sacrifice
    • תִּזְבָּֽחוּ׃tizbachuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will sacrifice

Numbers

one use
  • Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and he gave portions to Balaam and the princes who were with him.

    Numbers 22:40

    • וַיִּזְבַּ֥חvaiyizbachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he sacrificed

Deuteronomy

twelve uses
  • But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,

    Deuteronomy 12:15

    • תִּזְבַּ֣ח׀tizbachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will slaughter
  • If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.

    Deuteronomy 12:21

    • וְזָבַחְתָּ֞vezavachtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will slaughter
  • But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

    Deuteronomy 15:21

    • תִזְבָּחֶ֔נּוּtizbachenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you will sacrifice it
  • You are to offer to the LORD your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name.

    Deuteronomy 16:2

    • וְזָבַ֥חְתָּvezavachtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will sacrifice
  • No leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.

    Deuteronomy 16:4

    • תִּזְבַּ֥חtizbachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will sacrifice
  • You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.

    Deuteronomy 16:5

    • לִזְבֹּ֣חַlizboachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sacrifice
  • You must only offer the Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt.

    Deuteronomy 16:6

    • תִּזְבַּ֥חtizbachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will sacrifice
  • You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw, for that is detestable to the LORD your God.

    Deuteronomy 17:1

    • תִזְבַּח֩tizbachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will sacrifice
  • This shall be the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether a bull or a sheep: the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.

    Deuteronomy 18:3

    • זֹבְחֵ֥יzoecheiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: sacrifice
  • There you are to sacrifice your peace offerings, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the LORD your God.

    Deuteronomy 27:7

    • וְזָבַחְתָּ֥vezavachtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will sacrifice
  • They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

    Deuteronomy 32:17

    • יִזְבְּח֗וּyizbechuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they sacrificed
  • They will call the peoples to a mountain; there they will offer sacrifices of righteousness. For they will feast on the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand.”

    Deuteronomy 33:19

    • יִזְבְּח֣וּyizbechuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will sacrifice

Joshua

one use
  • just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: “an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool has been used.” And on it they offered burnt offerings to the LORD, and they sacrificed peace offerings.

    Joshua 8:31

    • וַֽיִּזְבְּח֖וּvaiyizbechuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they sacrificed

Judges

two uses
  • So they called that place Bochim and offered sacrifices there to the LORD.

    Judges 2:5

    • וַיִּזְבְּחוּ־vaiyizbechu-Hc/Vqw3mptagged: and they sacrificed
  • Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”

    Judges 16:23

    • לִזְבֹּ֧חַlizboachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sacrifice

1 Samuel

fourteen uses
  • Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.

    1 Samuel 1:3

    • וְלִזְבֹּ֛חַvelizboachconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to sacrifice
  • And whenever the day came for Elkanah to present his sacrifice, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.

    1 Samuel 1:4

    • וַיִּזְבַּ֖חvaiyizbachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he sacrificed
  • Then Elkanah and all his house went up to make the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow,

    1 Samuel 1:21

    • לִזְבֹּ֧חַlizboachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sacrifice
  • or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling

    1 Samuel 2:13

    • זֹבֵ֣חַzoveachverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: was sacrificing
  • Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”

    1 Samuel 2:15

    • הַזֹּבֵ֔חַhazoveachthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: who was sacrificing
  • Each year his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.

    1 Samuel 2:19

    • לִזְבֹּ֖חַlizboachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sacrifice
  • And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD and the chest containing the gold objects, and they placed them on the large rock. That day the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the LORD.

    1 Samuel 6:15

    • וַֽיִּזְבְּח֧וּvaiyizbechuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they sacrificed
  • And you shall go before me to Gilgal, and surely I will come to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Wait seven days until I come to you and show you what you are to do.”

    1 Samuel 10:8

    • לִזְבֹּ֖חַlizboachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sacrifice
  • So all the people went to Gilgal and confirmed Saul as king in the presence of the LORD. There they sacrificed peace offerings before the LORD, and Saul and all the Israelites rejoiced greatly.

    1 Samuel 11:15

    • וַיִּזְבְּחוּ־vaiyizbechu-Hc/Vqw3mptagged: and they sacrificed
  • Saul answered, “The troops brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but the rest we devoted to destruction.”

    1 Samuel 15:15

    • זְבֹ֖חַzevoachverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sacrifice
  • The troops took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of the things devoted to destruction, in order to sacrifice them to the LORD your God at Gilgal.”

    1 Samuel 15:21

    • לִזְבֹּ֛חַlizboachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sacrifice
  • “How can I go?” Samuel asked. “Saul will hear of it and kill me!” The LORD answered, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’

    1 Samuel 16:2

    • לִזְבֹּ֥חַlizboachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sacrifice
  • “In peace,” he replied. “I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

    1 Samuel 16:5

    • לִזְבֹּ֤חַlizboachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sacrifice
  • The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.

    1 Samuel 28:24

    • וַתִּזְבָּחֵ֑הוּvatizbachehuHc/Vqw3fs/Sp3mstagged: and she slaughtered it

2 Samuel

two uses
  • When those carrying the ark of the LORD had advanced six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

    2 Samuel 6:13

    • וַיִּזְבַּ֥חvaiyizbachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he sacrificed
  • While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, to come from his hometown of Giloh. So the conspiracy gained strength, and Absalom’s following kept increasing.

    2 Samuel 15:12

    • בְּזָבְח֖וֹbezavechopreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: when sacrificed he

1 Kings

fifteen uses
  • And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened calves near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel. He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah who were servants of the king.

    1 Kings 1:9

    • וַיִּזְבַּ֣חvaiyizbachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he sacrificed
  • And he has sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the other sons of the king, as well as Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army. But he did not invite your servant Solomon.

    1 Kings 1:19

    • וַ֠יִּזְבַּחvaiyizbachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he has sacrificed
  • For today he has gone down and sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the sons of the king, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest. And behold, they are eating and drinking before him, saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’

    1 Kings 1:25

    • וַ֠יִּזְבַּחvaiyizbachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he has sacrificed
  • The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.

    1 Kings 3:2

    • מְזַבְּחִ֖יםmezabechimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: sacrificing
  • And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

    1 Kings 3:3

    • מְזַבֵּ֖חַmezabeachverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: sacrificing
  • Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.

    1 Kings 3:4

    • לִזְבֹּ֣חַlizboachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sacrifice
  • There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

    1 Kings 8:5

    • מְזַבְּחִים֙mezabechimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: sacrificing
  • Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD.

    1 Kings 8:62

    • זֹבְחִ֥יםzoechimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: sacrificing
  • And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.

    1 Kings 8:63

    • וַיִּזְבַּ֣חvaiyizbachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he sacrificed
    • זָבַ֣חzavachverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he sacrificed
  • He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

    1 Kings 11:8

    • וּֽמְזַבְּח֖וֹתumezabechotconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine pluraltagged: and sacrificed
  • And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.

    1 Kings 12:32

    • לְזַבֵּ֖חַlezabeachpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sacrifice
  • And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”

    1 Kings 13:2

    • וְזָבַ֣חvezavachHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will sacrifice
  • So Elisha turned back from him, took his pair of oxen, and slaughtered them. With the oxen’s equipment, he cooked the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow and serve Elijah.

    1 Kings 19:21

    • וַיִּזְבָּחֵ֗הוּvaiyizbachehuHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he sacrificed it
  • And Jehoshaphat walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them, but did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

    1 Kings 22:43

    • מְזַבְּחִ֥יםmezabechimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: sacrificing

2 Kings

eight uses
  • Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.

    2 Kings 12:3

    • מְזַבְּחִ֥יםmezabechimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: sacrificing
  • Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

    2 Kings 14:4

    • מְזַבְּחִ֥יםmezabechimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: sacrificing
  • Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.

    2 Kings 15:4

    • מְזַבְּחִ֥יםmezabechimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: sacrificing
  • Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there. Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD.

    2 Kings 15:35

    • מְזַבְּחִ֥יםmezabechimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: sacrificing
  • And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

    2 Kings 16:4

    • וַיְזַבֵּ֧חַvayzabeachHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he sacrificed
  • For the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites and commanded them, “Do not worship other gods or bow down to them; do not serve them or sacrifice to them.

    2 Kings 17:35

    • תִזְבְּח֖וּtizbechuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you must sacrifice
  • Instead, worship the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm. You are to bow down to Him and offer sacrifices to Him.

    2 Kings 17:36

    • תִזְבָּֽחוּ׃tizbachuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will sacrifice
  • On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

    2 Kings 23:20

    • וַ֠יִּזְבַּחvaiyizbachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he slaughtered

1 Chronicles

three uses
  • And because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

    1 Chronicles 15:26

    • וַיִּזְבְּח֥וּvaiyizbechuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they sacrificed
  • At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.

    1 Chronicles 21:28

    • וַיִּזְבַּ֖חvaiyizbachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he sacrificed
  • The next day they offered sacrifices and presented burnt offerings to the LORD: a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, along with their drink offerings, and other sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.

    1 Chronicles 29:21

    • וַיִּזְבְּח֣וּvaiyizbechuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they sacrificed

2 Chronicles

fourteen uses
  • There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

    2 Chronicles 5:6

    • מְזַבְּחִים֙mezabechimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: sacrificing
  • Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.

    2 Chronicles 7:4

    • זֹבְחִ֥יםzoechimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: sacrificing
  • And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

    2 Chronicles 7:5

    • וַיִּזְבַּ֞חvaiyizbachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he sacrificed
  • Those from every tribe of Israel who had set their hearts to seek the LORD their God followed the Levites to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

    2 Chronicles 11:16

    • לִזְבּ֕וֹחַlizboachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sacrifice
  • At that time they sacrificed to the LORD seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep from all the plunder they had brought back.

    2 Chronicles 15:11

    • וַיִּזְבְּח֤וּvaiyizbechuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they sacrificed
  • And some years later he went down to visit Ahab in Samaria, where Ahab sacrificed many sheep and cattle for him and the people with him, and urged him to march up to Ramoth-gilead.

    2 Chronicles 18:2

    • וַיִּֽזְבַּֽח־vaiyizbach-Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he slaughtered
  • And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

    2 Chronicles 28:4

    • וַיְזַבֵּ֧חַvayzabeachHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he sacrificed
  • Since Damascus had defeated him, he sacrificed to their gods and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But these gods were the downfall of Ahaz and of all Israel.

    2 Chronicles 28:23

    • וַיִּזְבַּ֗חvaiyizbachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he sacrificed
    • אֲזַבֵּ֖חַʾazabeachverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will sacrifice
  • And Hezekiah encouraged all the Levites who performed skillfully before the LORD. For seven days they ate their assigned portion, sacrificing fellowship offerings and giving thanks to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

    2 Chronicles 30:22

    • מְזַבְּחִים֙mezabechimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: sacrificing
  • Then he restored the altar of the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and he told Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.

    2 Chronicles 33:16

    • וַיִּזְבַּ֣חvaiyizbachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he sacrificed
  • Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

    2 Chronicles 33:17

    • זֹבְחִ֖יםzoechimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: sacrificing
  • And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made,

    2 Chronicles 33:22

    • זִבַּ֥חzibachverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he sacrificed
  • Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

    2 Chronicles 34:4

    • הַזֹּבְחִ֖יםhazoechimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who sacrificed

Ezra

one use
  • they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families, saying, “Let us build with you because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to Him since the time of King Esar-haddon of Assyria, who brought us here.”

    Ezra 4:2

    • זֹבְחִ֗יםzoechimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: sacrificing

Nehemiah

two uses
  • before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”

    Nehemiah 4:2

    • הֲיִזְבָּ֙חוּ֙hayizbachuquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: ¿ will they offer sacrifices
  • On that day they offered great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard from afar.

    Nehemiah 12:43

    • וַיִּזְבְּח֣וּvaiyizbechuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they sacrificed

Psalms

nine uses
  • Offer the sacrifices of the righteous and trust in the LORD.

    Psalms 4:5

    • זִבְח֥וּzivchuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: sacrifice
  • Then my head will be held high above my enemies around me. At His tabernacle I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the LORD.

    Psalms 27:6

    • וְאֶזְבְּחָ֣הveezbechahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: and I will sacrifice
  • Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.

    Psalms 50:14

    • זְבַ֣חzevachverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: sacrifice
  • He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.”

    Psalms 50:23

    • זֹבֵ֥חַzoveachverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: sacrifices
  • Freely I will sacrifice to You; I will praise Your name, O LORD, for it is good.

    Psalms 54:6

    • אֶזְבְּחָה־ʾezbechah-verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will sacrifice
  • They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

    Psalms 106:37

    • וַיִּזְבְּח֣וּvaiyizbechuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they sacrificed
  • They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

    Psalms 106:38

    • זִ֭בְּחוּzibechuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they sacrificed
  • Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing.

    Psalms 107:22

    • וְ֭יִזְבְּחוּveyizbechuHC/Vqu3mptagged: and let them sacrifice
  • I will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.

    Psalms 116:17

    • אֶ֭זְבַּחʾezbachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will sacrifice

Ecclesiastes

two uses
  • It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.

    Ecclesiastes 9:2

    • וְלַזֹּבֵ֔חַvelazoveachconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and to the sacrifices
    • זֹבֵ֑חַzoveachverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: sacrificing

Isaiah

three uses
  • On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.

    Isaiah 57:7

    • לִזְבֹּ֥חַlizboachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sacrifice
  • to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,

    Isaiah 65:3

    • זֹֽבְחִים֙zoechimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: sacrifice
  • Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.

    Isaiah 66:3

    • זוֹבֵ֤חַzoveachverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: sacrifices

Ezekiel

five uses
  • You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?

    Ezekiel 16:20

    • וַתִּזְבָּחִ֥יםvatizbachimHc/Vqw2fs/Sp3mptagged: and you sacrificed them
  • When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings.

    Ezekiel 20:28

    • וַיִּזְבְּחוּ־vaiyizbechu-Hc/Vqw3mptagged: and they sacrificed
  • You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock.

    Ezekiel 34:3

    • תִּזְבָּ֑חוּtizbachuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you slaughter
  • And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.

    Ezekiel 39:17

    • זֹבֵ֤חַzoveachverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: sacrificing
  • At the sacrifice I am preparing, you will eat fat until you are gorged and drink blood until you are drunk.

    Ezekiel 39:19

    • זָבַ֥חְתִּיzavachtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have sacrificed

Hosea

six uses
  • They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

    Hosea 4:13

    • יְזַבֵּ֗חוּyezabechuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they sacrifice
  • I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.

    Hosea 4:14

    • יְזַבֵּ֑חוּyezabechuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they sacrifice
  • Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.

    Hosea 8:13

    • יִזְבְּח֤וּyizbechuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they sacrifice
  • But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.

    Hosea 11:2

    • יְזַבֵּ֔חוּyezabechuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they sacrificed
  • Is there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.

    Hosea 12:11

    • זִבֵּ֑חוּzibechuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have sacrificed
  • Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”

    Hosea 13:2

    • זֹבְחֵ֣יzoecheiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: offer sacrifice of

Jonah

two uses
  • Then the men feared the LORD greatly, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows to Him.

    Jonah 1:16

    • וַיִּֽזְבְּחוּ־vaiyizbechu-Hc/Vqw3mptagged: and they sacrificed
  • But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!”

    Jonah 2:9

    • אֶזְבְּחָה־ʾezbechah-verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will sacrifice

Habakkuk

one use
  • Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.

    Habakkuk 1:16

    • יְזַבֵּ֣חַyezabeachverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he sacrifices

Zechariah

one use
  • Indeed, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the LORD of Hosts, and all who sacrifice will come and take some pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of Hosts.

    Zechariah 14:21

    • הַזֹּ֣בְחִ֔יםhazoechimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those sacrifice

Malachi

two uses
  • When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.

    Malachi 1:8

    • לִזְבֹּ֙חַ֙lizboachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sacrifice
  • “But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.

    Malachi 1:14

    • וְזֹבֵ֥חַvezoveachconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and sacrifices

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