Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2874
טֶבַח
tebachteh'-bakh
slaughter
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ṭebach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2874is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2874
properly, something slaughtered; hence, a beast (or meat, as butchered); abstractly butchery (or concretely, a place of slaughter)
The King James renders it: [idiom] beast, slaughter, [idiom] slay, [idiom] sore.
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
tebach is rendered "slaughter". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in Isaiah, 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 43:16טֶ֙בַח֙
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
- to the slaughter5
- a slaughter2
- and a slaughter1
- for slaughter1
- for slaughtering1
- slaughter1
- slaughtering her1
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 12, 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
- טֶ֙בַח֙2
- לַטֶּ֣בַח2
- לַטָּ֑בַח2
- וְטֶ֥בַח1
- טָ֣בַח1
- טִ֭בְחָהּ1
- לְטֶ֣בַח1
- לְטָֽבַח׃1
- לַטָּֽבַח׃1
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular5HRd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3fs
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.”
- טֶ֙בַח֙tevachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a slaughter
Proverbs
two uses
He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,
- טָ֣בַחtavachnoun · masculine singulartagged: slaughter
She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
- טִ֭בְחָהּtivchahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: slaughtering her
Isaiah
four uses
The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.
- לַטָּֽבַח׃latavachpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the slaughter
The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat—with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
- וְטֶ֥בַחvetevachconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a slaughter
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
- לַטֶּ֣בַחlatevachpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the slaughter
I will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
- לַטֶּ֣בַחlatevachpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the slaughter
Jeremiah
two uses
Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
- לַטָּ֑בַחlatavachpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the slaughter
Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come—the time of their punishment.
- לַטָּ֑בַחlatavachpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the slaughter
Ezekiel
three uses
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.
- טֶ֙בַח֙tevachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a slaughter
So that their hearts may melt and many may stumble, I have appointed at all their gates a sword for slaughter. Yes, it is ready to flash like lightning; it is drawn for slaughter.
- לְטָֽבַח׃letavachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for slaughtering
Now prophesy, son of man, and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt: ‘A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning—
- לְטֶ֣בַחletevachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for 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.