Hebrew verb · H2873
טָבַח
tabachtaw-bakh'
to slaughter
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ṭâbach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2873is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2873
to slaughter (animals or men)
The King James renders it: kill, (make) slaughter, 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
tabach is rendered "to slaughter". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Three of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 43:16When Joseph saw Benjamin with his brothers, he said to the steward of his house, “Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they shall dine with me at noon.”
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
When Joseph saw Benjamin with his brothers, he said to the steward of his house, “Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they shall dine with me at noon.”
Genesis 43:16וּטְבֹ֤חַ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's eleven uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- to slaughter5
- and he will slaughter it1
- and slaughter1
- I have slaughtered1
- she has slaughtered1
- slaughtered1
- you have slaughtered1
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.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- לִטְב֑וֹחַ3
- וּטְבֹ֤חַ1
- וּטְבָח֖וֹ1
- טָב֣וּחַ1
- טְבֹ֤חַ1
- טָבְחָ֣ה1
- טָבַ֖חְתָּ1
- טָבַ֖חְתִּי1
- לִ֝טְב֗וֹחַ1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)4HR/Vqcc
- Hc/Vqq3ms/Sp3ms1Hc/Vqq3ms/Sp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Vqv2ms
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HVqcc
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqp1cs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqp2ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqp3fs
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular1HVqsmsa
Genesis
one use
When Joseph saw Benjamin with his brothers, he said to the steward of his house, “Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they shall dine with me at noon.”
- וּטְבֹ֤חַutevoachconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and slaughter
Exodus
one use
“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he must repay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.
- וּטְבָח֖וֹutevachoHc/Vqq3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he will slaughter it
Deuteronomy
one use
Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.
- טָב֣וּחַtavuachverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: slaughtered
1 Samuel
one use
Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?”
- טָבַ֖חְתִּיtavachtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have slaughtered
Psalms
one use
The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.
- לִ֝טְב֗וֹחַlitvoachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to slaughter
Proverbs
one use
She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
- טָבְחָ֣הtavechahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she has slaughtered
Jeremiah
three uses
For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
- לִטְב֑וֹחַlitvoachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to slaughter
Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.
- לִטְב֑וֹחַlitvoachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to slaughter
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
- לִטְב֑וֹחַlitvoachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to slaughter
Lamentations
one use
Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
- טָבַ֖חְתָּtavachtaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have slaughtered
Ezekiel
one use
it is sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice in the scepter of My son? The sword despises every such stick.
- טְבֹ֤חַtevoachverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to slaughter
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
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 family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.