81 occurrences in 12 translations

'Killing' in the Bible

Eventually, what Rebekah's older son Esau had been saying was reported to her, so she sent for her younger son Jacob and warned him, "Look! Your brother is planning to get even by killing you.

Attempting To Kill Specific PeopleTelling What People Said

When Reuben heard about it, he tried to save Joseph from their plot. "Let's not do any killing,"

Restraints From KillingIndividuals Saving Others

Then Judah suggested to his brothers, "Where's the profit in just killing our brother and shedding his blood?

Hiding Sins

Then the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life [for killing the Egyptian] are dead.”

Attempting To Kill

because all [the] firstborn [are] mine; on the day of my killing all [the] firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for myself all [the] firstborn in Israel, {both humankind and animal}; they will be mine. I am Yahweh."

ClaimsDeath Of The FirstbornI Am The LordPeople Belong To God

The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people [who have committed sin with the Moabites], and execute them in broad daylight before the Lord, so that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.”

People Hung To DeathAction Lest God Be Angry

They fought against the Midianites just as the LORD had commanded Moses, killing every man.

Warfare, Nature OfExterminationDeath Of All Males

You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of killing someone; he must be put to death.

The men of Ai killed about 36 of them, pursuing them outside the city gates as far as Shebarim, killing them as they descended. As a result, the army became terrified and lost their confidence.

Human EmotionHeart, HumanMeltingThirty SomeLosing Courage

When Israel had finished killing everyone living in Ai who had pursued them into the open country, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the sword.

CarnageConquest

Joshua did as they said; he kept the Israelites from killing them

Kept Alive By Men

As they fled before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, the Lord threw down large stones [of hail] from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. More [Amorites] died because of the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed with the sword.

HailSkyWeather, As God's JudgmentGod KillingIsrael FleeingGod Killed The Peoples

It happened, when Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

CityCarnageExterminationSurvivors Of The Nations

Gideon replied, "They were my brothers sons from my own mother. As the LORD lives, if you had let them live, I wouldn't be killing you."

Kept Alive By MenRestraints From Killinggideon

That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.

Punishment, Nature OfSeventiesKilling Brothers

In this way, God turned back on Abimelech the evil that he had done against his father, by killing his 70 brothers.

Anger Of God, Examples OfSeventiesGod Has RequitedKilling BrothersHalf brothers

Then the Benjaminites came out against the people and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about 30 men of Israel on the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah through the open country.

ThirtyBringing People Out Of Other PlacesKilling Within Israel

the men of Israel would return to the battle. When Benjamin had begun to strike them down, killing about 30 men of Israel, they said, “They’re defeated before us, just as they were in the first battle.”

ThirtyKilling Within Israel

Saul and all the army that was with him assembled and marched into battle, where they found the Philistines in total panic killing one another with their swords.

ConfusionChaosDisorder Among The NationsFighting One AnotherKilling One AnotherWarBattlearmystories

When David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the Philistine’s head still in his hand.

Skulls

As the troops were coming back, when David was returning from killing the Philistine, the women came out from all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul, singing and dancing with tambourines, with shouts of joy, and with three-stringed instruments.

Joy, And Human ExperienceLeisure, And PastimesVirginMusic To Celebratehomecoming

Now Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants about killing David, but Saul's son Jonathan {liked David very much}.

He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine, and the Lord brought about a great victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced, so why would you sin against innocent blood by killing David for no reason?”

God, Greatness OfSuffering, Of Jesus ChristInnocent BloodExcitementRestraints From KillingWronging Other PeopleRisking

Looke, my father, look! The corner of your robe is in my hand. Indeed, by my cutting off the corner of your robe and not killing you, you may know and understand that I have no evil intent or transgression I haven't wronged you, even though you are hunting me to take my life.

HuntingAttempting To Kill Specific PeoplePlea Of Innocence

and they took captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great, without killing anyone, and carried them off and went their way.

On that day all the troops and all Israel were convinced that the king had no part in the killing of Abner son of Ner.

Man's Purposes

David made a name for himself when he returned from killing 18,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley.

SaltValleysEleven To Nineteen ThousandNumbers Of Foreigners Killed

Ten young men who served as Joab's personal assistants then surrounded Absalom, striking him repeatedly and killing him.

Ten People

Amasa did not notice the sword that Joab was holding in his hand. Joab stabbed him in the abdomen, spilling his intestines to the ground in a single stroke and killing him. After this, Joab and his brother pursued Bichri's son Sheba.

Assassinations, CompletedBetrayalStomachsBowelsAnatomyIntestinesKilling Named Individuals

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to David's aid, striking the Philistine down and killing him. Then David's men took an oath saying, "You will not go out to battle with us again! You must not extinguish the lamp of Israel!"

Not Extinguishing

When the angel extended his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented from his judgment. He told the angel who was killing the people, "That's enough! Stop now!" (Now the Lord's angel was near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.)

RegretUnhappinessAngels, Ot AppearancesDestruction Of JerusalemGod Changing His MindMore Than EnoughAngels Activities Among Unbelievers

Then he cried out to the Lord and said, “My Lord God, have You also brought tragedy on the widow I am staying with by killing her son?”

Crying To GodSecret PrayerGod KillingGod Killing IndividualsTragedy

When Jezebel was killing the Lord's prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets and hid them in two caves in two groups of fifty. He also brought them food and water.)

Bad InfluenceCavesProphets, Lives OfSchool Of ProphetsWaterLove to Others, Examples OfFiftiesOne HundredPeople In CavesKilling ProphetsPeople Hiding PeopleProphets Killedprophetsjezebelhidinggroups

Hasn't anyone told you, my master, what I did when Jezebel was killing the LORD's prophets? I hid 100 of the LORD's prophets by fifties in a cave and provided food and water for them.

School Of ProphetsFiftiesOne HundredPeople In CavesKilling ProphetsPeople Hiding PeopleProphets Killedjezebel

Ahab complained to Jezebel about everything that Elijah had done, especially the part about him killing all the prophets of Baal with a sword.

SwordsKilling ProphetsTelling What People DidProphets Of Other Godsjezebel

When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life that this man expects me to cure a man of his skin disease? Think it over and you will see that he is only picking a fight with me.”

LiteracyGod Giving LifeGod KillingThose Who Tore ClothesGod In Relation To ManGod KillsMan's Relation To God

Then all of the people of the land entered Baal's temple, tore it down, and broke his altars and his images to pieces, killing Mattan the priest of Baal right in front of the altars. Furthermore, Jehoiada the priest appointed officers to guard the LORD's Temple,

False GodsDestruction Of Satan's WorksKilling Priests

When they first moved in, they did not worship the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them and the lions were killing them.

Animals KillingNo Fear Of God

The settlers spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations that you have deported and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land. Therefore He has sent lions among them that are killing them because the people don’t know the requirements of the God of the land.”

Rejection Of God

When Jehoram had established himself over his father’s kingdom, he strengthened his position by killing with the sword all his brothers as well as some of the princes of Israel.

MurderPrinces

Meanwhile, the troops that Amaziah had sent home from the battle raided the cities of Judah from Samaria to Beth-horon, killing 3,000 people and taking a large amount of war booty.

Three Thousand And UpTwelve Beings

And it happened [that] after Amaziah came [back] from killing the Edomites, he brought the gods of the sons of Seir, and he stood them up to himself as gods and bowed down before them and make smoke offerings for them.

BowingTwelve Beings

For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.

The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them. They did what they pleased to those who hated them.

The rest of the Jewish people in the king's provinces assembled to defend themselves, and they gained relief from their enemies, killing 75,000 of those who hated them. But they did not lay their hands on the spoils.

Fifty To Ninety ThousandJews Under ThreatHating PeoplesNumbers Of Foreigners Killed

He blazed a path for his anger; he did not stop short from killing them, but handed them over to pestilence.

PestilenceHow Death Is InevitableNot SparingDeath Of The Wicked

And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

BitingMortalityPresent, TheSelf IndulgenceWinePleasure SeekersAlcohol ConsumptionEating And DrinkingEating Drinking And Rejoicing

Stop oppressing foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop paying allegiance to other gods. That will only bring about your ruin.

ForeignersOppression, Nature OfWidows, Should Not BeSheddingOppressing ForeignersDifferent GodsDo Not MurderPenalties For Serving Other Gods

As for You, Lord, You know me; You see me.You test whether my heart is with You.Drag the wicked away like sheep to slaughterand set them apart for the day of killing.

SheepHeart, Known To GodBeing Killed Like An AnimalGod Testing PeopleKilled Like An Animal

But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

Deceitful HeartsAbuse Of Authority, Warnings AgainstHeart, Fallen And RedeemedOppression, Nature OfProfitsSelf IndulgenceInnocent BloodSheddingKilling The InnocentOppressorsCovetousnessDishonestyoppression

Now it happened on the next day after the killing of Gedaliah, when no one knew about it,

How long will you cry out, 'Oh, sword of the Lord, how long will it be before you stop killing? Go back into your sheath! Stay there and rest!'

Be Still!God's Sword

He spoke as I listened to the others, “Pass through the city after him and start killing; do not show pity or spare them!

God Will Kill His PeopleNot SparingPeople Following PeopleShow No Mercypity

Then He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go!” So they went out killing people in the city.

Filling The SanctuaryGoing OutsideGod KillingGod Killed His PeopleCourts Of The Temple

While they were killing, I was left alone. And I fell facedown and cried out, “Oh, Lord God! Are You going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel when You pour out Your wrath on Jerusalem?”

Blasphemy, At GodProstrationRemnantSurvivors Destroyed

"Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.

PestilenceDestruction Of All CreaturesCovered With BloodBoth Men And Animals Killed

Is that when you'll say, "I'm God' to the face of those who will be killing you? After all, you're a man, and have never been a god, especially when you're under the control of those who will defile you!

Men As Godsartists

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

AdulterersDebaucheryStealingCrude LanguageNot Swearing OathsThose Who Committed AdulterySwearingadultry

I will execute their rulers among them, killing all of their officials as well," says the LORD.

God KillingGod Will Kill The Peoples

Is he to continue to empty his fishing net? Will he ever stop killing entire nations without mercy?"

Continual SinEmptyingPeople Without Mercyrelentless

You have brought shame to yourself by killing many people you are forfeiting your own life.

The Misery Of GreedDeath As PunishmentExterminationShame Of Bad Conduct

And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.

Killing DisciplesTreating Others

And the first day of the unleavened food, when they were killing the passover, his disciples say to him, 'Where wilt thou, that, having gone, we may prepare, that thou mayest eat the passover?'

Passover lambTypesThe Disciples Words

I'll show you the one you should be afraid of. Be afraid of the one who has the authority to throw you into hell after killing you. Yes, I tell you, be afraid of him!

Gospel, Responses ToPunishment, By GodGehennaReverence To GodGod KillingGod KillsFear God!

'Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto her, how often did I will to gather together thy children, as a hen her brood under the wings, and ye did not will.

God, Feminine Descriptions OfAffection, ExpressingBeing Earnest For IsraelMale And FemaleMercy, Of Jesus ChristMothers, As A SymbolProphets, Lives OfSensitivityWingsChickensGathered By GodDuplicating WordsWings Of BirdsKilling ProphetsPeople Unwilling

When he saw one of them being mistreated, he defended him and avenged the man who was being mistreated by killing the Egyptian.

defence, humanOppression, Nature OfMan AvengingGod Being Outside Of Creation

And Saul agreed completely with killing. Now on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were forced to scatter throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.

FugitivesChristiansdispersion, theJerusalem, Significance OfSamaritansChurch, Description OfChurch, Examples OfThe Church ScatteredAssentingApproval To KillThe Apostles In Action

When the jailer, shaken out of sleep, saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, thinking that the prisoners had escaped.

SuicideSwordsEscaping From Peoplejail

Even when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I was standing there, approving it and guarding the coats of those who were killing him.'

GuardsMartyrdom, Examples OfParticipation, In SinConnivanceSheddingHuman Blood ShedKilling DisciplesAssentingApproval To KillMartyrdomWitnessing

This man Paul had been seized by the Jews, and they were on the point of killing him, when I came upon them with the troops and rescued him, for I had been informed that he was a Roman citizen.

Roman CitizensRescueIndividuals Saving Others

they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins -- being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,

FleecesDeath penaltyMartyrdom Of The SaintsStoningMartyrdom, Methods OfPeople Cut In PiecesAnimal SkinsFoul ClothesHalf Of BodiesPeople Actually Doing Evil

But these persons, like irrational animals born [only with] natural [instincts] for capture and killing, blaspheming {about things} they do not understand, in their destruction will also be destroyed,

Death, Of UnbelieversDestructionProfanityWicked Described AsInstinctAnnihilationDestruction Of The WickedKilling Wild AnimalsBeing Killed Like An AnimalMen Similar To AnimalsMammalsKilled Like An AnimalPetsignorancecorruptionacting

If any one is eager to lead others into captivity, he must himself go into captivity. If any one is bent on killing with the sword, he must himself be killed by the sword. Here is an opportunity for endurance, and for the exercise of faith, on the part of God's people.

Faithfulness, To GodPatience, Accompanied BySaintsSpiritual VitalityMaintaining FaithOpportunityEnduranceperserverancecrusades

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
הרג 
Harag 
Usage: 166

זבח 
Zabach 
Usage: 134

חלל 
Chalal 
Usage: 94

טבח 
Tabach 
Usage: 11

מוּת 
Muwth 
die , dead , slay , death , surely , kill , dead man , dead body , in no wise ,
Usage: 839

נכה 
Nakah 
Usage: 501

נקף 
Naqaph 
Usage: 19

קטל 
Qatal 
Usage: 3

רצח 
Ratsach 
Usage: 47

שׁחט 
Shachat 
Usage: 81

שׁחיטה 
Sh@chiytah 
Usage: 2

ἀναιρέω 
Anaireo 
kill , slay , put to death , take up , do , take away
Usage: 23

ἀποκτείνω 
Apokteino 
kill , slay , put to death
Usage: 40

διαχειρίζομαι 
Diacheirizomai 
Usage: 2

θανατόω 
Thanatoo 
put to death , cause to be put to death , kill , become dead , mortify
Usage: 8

θύω 
Thuo 
Usage: 9

σφάζω 
Sphazo 
Usage: 10

φονεύω 
Phoneuo 
kill , do murder , slay
Usage: 5

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