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 39Old Testament books
- 103spellings
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
The word stands in twenty-four of the 39 Old Testament books.
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.
The words it stands beside
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.
- 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.
- 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.’
- 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.”
- 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.’
- 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.’
- 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.”
- וְיִזְבְּח֖וּveyizbechuHC/Vqu3mptagged: so they may sacrifice
Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within this land.”
- 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?
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.’
- 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.
- וְזָבַחְתָּ֣vezavachtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will sacrifice
If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.’”
- 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.
- 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.’”
- 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.
- 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.’
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- וַֽיִּזְבְּח֖וּvaiyizbechuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they sacrificed
Judges
two uses
So they called that place Bochim and offered sacrifices there to the LORD.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.’
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!’
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- מְזַבְּחִים֙mezabechimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: sacrificing
Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.’”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- מְזַבְּחִ֥יםmezabechimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: sacrificing
Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- מְזַבְּחִים֙mezabechimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: sacrificing
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- וַיִּזְבַּ֣חvaiyizbachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he sacrificed
Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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?”
- 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.
- וַיִּזְבְּח֣וּvaiyizbechuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they sacrificed
Psalms
nine uses
Offer the sacrifices of the righteous and trust in the LORD.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- זֹבֵ֥חַzoveachverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: sacrifices
Freely I will sacrifice to You; I will praise Your name, O LORD, for it is good.
- אֶזְבְּחָה־ʾezbechah-verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will sacrifice
They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
- 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.
- זִ֭בְּחוּzibechuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they sacrificed
Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing.
- וְ֭יִזְבְּחוּveyizbechuHC/Vqu3mptagged: and let them sacrifice
I will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!”
- 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.
- 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!”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- וְזֹבֵ֥חַvezoveachconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and sacrifices
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Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in the first 120 verses where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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