17 occurrences

'Hanged' in the Bible

but he hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted to them.

And just as he interpreted for us, so it happened; he restored me in my office, but he hanged him.”

his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance.

He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at sunset Joshua gave command and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the city gate, and raised over it a great heap of stones that stands to this day.

So afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death, and he hanged them on five trees; and they hung on the trees until evening.

Then he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before the Lord, so that the seven of them fell together; and they were put to death in the first days of harvest at the beginning of barley harvest.

then David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the open square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them on the day the Philistines struck down Saul in Gilboa.

He brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there, and they gathered the bones of those who had been hanged.

Now when the plot was investigated and found to be so, they were both hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the Book of the Chronicles in the king’s presence.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Have a gallows fifty cubits high made and in the morning ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on it; then go joyfully with the king to the banquet.” And the advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king’s anger subsided.

So King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given the house of Haman to Esther, and him they have hanged on the gallows because he had stretched out his hands against the Jews.

Then said Esther, “If it pleases the king, let tomorrow also be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do according to the edict of today; and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”

So the king commanded that it should be done so; and an edict was issued in Susa, and Haman’s ten sons were hanged.

But when it came to the king’s attention, he commanded by letter that his wicked scheme which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

One of the criminals who were hanged there was hurling abuse at Him, saying, “Are You not the Christ? Save Yourself and us!”

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
תּלה 
Talah 
hang , hang up , variant
Usage: 27

חנק 
Chanaq 
Usage: 2

יקע 
Yaqa` 
Usage: 8

מחא 
M@cha' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 4

מסך 
Macak 
Usage: 25

סרח 
Carach 
Usage: 7

קלע 
Qela` 
Usage: 22

תּלא 
Tala' 
Usage: 3

κρεμάννυμι 
Kremannumi 
Usage: 5

παρίημι 
Pariemi 
Usage: 1

περίκειμαι 
Perikeimai 
be hanged , be bound with , be compassed with , be compassed about with Trans
Usage: 2

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