466 occurrences in 12 translations

'Killed' in the Bible

Lamech said to his wives:Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;wives of Lamech, pay attention to my words.For I killed a man for wounding me,a young man for striking me.

Verse ConceptsAbel and CainPay Attention To People!

Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, for she said, “God has given me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

Verse ConceptsAdam, After The FallAbelAbel and CainMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenExchange Of IndividualsKilling Named IndividualsPeople With Apt NamesAdam and evepremarital

On the third day, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and killed every male.

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The WeekExterminationDeath Of All MalesPhysical PainTwo SonsPleasurablenessMassacres

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and went away.

Verse ConceptsTaking Other People

Jacob's sons killed them and looted the city because their sister had been violated.

Verse ConceptsRapePeople Being PollutedNamed Sisters

After Husham died, Bedad's son Hadad, who killed Midian in the field of Moab, ruled in his place. His city's name was Avith.

Verse ConceptsdefeatForeign KingsRulers Of Edom

And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitDippingCovered With BloodKilling Domesticated AnimalsColor

But Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the Lord's sight, so the Lord killed him.

Verse ConceptsFirstborn SonsGod KillingGod Killing Individuals

O my soul, do not come into their council, do not be united to their assembly, my heart, for in their anger they have killed men, and for pleasure they have hamstrung oxen.

Verse ConceptsIrritationParticipation, In SinAnger Of Man, CauseSelf WillEvil AssociationsObstinate IndividualsReady To KillSports

Looking around and seeing no one else, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Verse ConceptsSandInadequate BurialsUnseenLooking And SeeingSand And Gravel

“Who made you a leader and judge over us?” the man replied. “Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?”Then Moses became afraid and thought: What I did is certainly known.

Verse ConceptsRulersAttempting To Kill MeThings Revealed

When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord killed every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of man to the firstborn of livestock. That is why I sacrifice to the Lord all the firstborn of the womb that are males, but I redeem all the firstborn of my sons.’

Verse ConceptsStubbornness, Consequences OfDeath Of The FirstbornGod KillingMale AnimalsBoth Men And Animals KilledHindering God's WorkGod Killed The PeoplesRegulating Sacrifices

But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

Verse ConceptsHabitsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfStriking To DeathAnimals KillingDeath Penalty For ViolenceInstructions About StoningRules About Killing AnimalsUnpremeditated

And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed before the LORD.

Verse ConceptsLaying On Of HandsHands On HeadsLaying Hands On SacrificesKilling Sacrifices

Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy.

Verse ConceptsKilling Sacrifices

Next Moses killed it and took the blood and with his finger put some of it around on the horns of the altar and purified it [from sin]. Then he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it, to make atonement for it.

Verse ConceptsFingersHornsPouringClean ObjectsApplied With The FingerAtoning By SacrificesKilling Sacrifices

And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.

Verse ConceptsSprinkling BloodKilling Sacrifices

Moses killed it and took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

Verse ConceptsFeetEarsSprinklingThumbsToesKilling SacrificesOther Right Parts

So Aaron approached the altar and killed the calf as the sin offering, which was designated for himself.

Verse ConceptsKilling Sacrifices

Then he killed the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons handed the blood to him and he sprinkled it around on the altar.

Verse ConceptsSprinklingSprinkling BloodKilling Sacrifices

Then Aaron presented the people’s offering. He took the goat for the sin offering of the people, and killed it and offered it for sin, as he did the first.

Verse ConceptsExpiationOfferingsKilling Sacrifices

He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings which was for the people; and Aaron’s sons handed the blood to him and he sprinkled it around on the altar,

Verse ConceptsSprinkling BloodKilling Sacrifices

And fire came out from the presence of the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

Verse ConceptsAnger Of God, Examples OfDeath As PunishmentBurning PeopleThe Presence Of God

And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:

Verse ConceptsClayBasinsKilling Sacrifices

As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:

Verse ConceptsRed CordsCedar Wood

and he shall take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times;

Verse ConceptsSprinkling BloodSeven TimesCedar Wood

Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites must take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be reassembled, the Levites must set it up. Any unauthorized person who approaches it must be killed.

Verse ConceptsAccess To God, In Old TestamentStrangersExclusionMaking The TabernacleDeath Due To God's PresenceDanger When God Is NearDeath ApproachingMoving To A New Place

Should flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Or should all the fish of the sea be collected for them to be sufficient for them?”

Verse ConceptsKilling Domesticated Animals

Why has the Lord brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn't it be better for us to return to Egypt?"

Verse ConceptsdoubtersFaint HeartednessWhy Does God Do This?

Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,

Verse ConceptsFameGod Might Kill His People

Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.'

Verse ConceptsImpotence Of GodDying In The WildernessGod KillingGod Killed His People

But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsDiscontentGrumbling At PeopleJudged As MurderersComplaining

Anyone in the open field who touches a person who has been killed by the sword or has died, or who even touches a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

Verse ConceptsDead bodiesGrave, TheTombsCemeterySeven DaysTouching Unclean ThingsRules About CorpsesSeven Days For Legal Purposesnatural Death

A person who is clean is to take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, a corpse, or a person who had been killed.

Verse ConceptsSprinkling Water

So they killed him and his sons and all his people, until there was no remnant left him; and they possessed his land.

Verse ConceptsExtermination

Then Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have made a mockery of me! If there had been a sword in my hand, I would have killed you by now.”

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyKilling Domesticated Animals

The donkey saw Me and turned away from Me these three times. If she had not turned away from Me, I would have killed you by now and let her live.”

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyGod KillingSeeing AngelsActing Three TimesGod Killing Individuals

If she hadn't turned away from me, I would have killed you by now and left her alive!" At this, Balaam replied to the angel of the LORD, "I've sinned! I didn't know that you were standing to meet me on the road. So now, since it displeases you, let me go back."

Verse ConceptsAcknowledge, SinIndividuals going homeIgnorant Of FactsWe Have Sinned

The name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi daughter of Zur. He was a leader over the people of a clan of Midian.

For they attacked you with the treachery that they used against you in the Peor incident. They did the same in the case involving their sister Cozbi, daughter of the Midianite leader who was killed the day the plague came at Peor.”

Verse ConceptsSeducersharassment

They waged war against Midian, as the Lord had commanded Moses, and killed every male.

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Nature OfExterminationDeath Of All Males

Along with the others slain by them, they killed the Midianite kings—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.

Verse ConceptsFive PeopleKilling KingsKilling ProphetsNamed Gentile Rulers

And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

Verse ConceptsQuarantiningHealingQuarantineSeven DaysPeople Being PollutedSeven Days For Legal Purposes

while they were burying their firstborn, whom the LORD had killed among them. The LORD also executed justice against their gods.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornDeath Of The FirstbornNo Help In Other Gods

Now from these towns that you will give to the Levites you must select six towns of refuge to which a person who has killed someone may flee. And you must give them forty-two other towns.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesDeath penaltyRefugeesSanctuaryManslaughterTypes Of ChristAsylumSix ThingsForties

then you shall select for yourselves cities to be your cities of refuge, that the manslayer who has killed any person unintentionally may flee there.

Verse ConceptsMurderRefugeManslaughterAccidental KillingsUnintentional

or without seeing him hit him [accidentally] with a stone object that could kill him, and he died, and [the offender] was not his enemy nor intending to harm him,

Verse ConceptsBeing Struck With Stones

for the one who killed a person was supposed to live in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may the one who has killed a person return to the land he possesses.

Verse ConceptsDeath Of Office HoldersPermission To Return Home

Someone could flee there who committed manslaughter, killing his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him. He could flee to one of these cities and stay alive:

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyManslaughterNot HatingUnintentional

“Here is the law concerning a case of someone who kills a person and flees there to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him:

Verse ConceptsMurderManslaughterNot HatingUnintentional

“If a murder victim is found lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,

Verse ConceptsCourtsNot Knowing People

Outside, the sword will take their children,and inside, there will be terror;the young man and the young woman will be killed,the infant and the gray-haired man.

Verse ConceptsGreyFear Of EnemiesGod's Sword

Spare my father, my mother, and my brothers and sisters, along with everyone who belongs with them so we won't be killed."

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenDeath Of A Family MemberDeath Of A MotherDeath Of A FatherFamily DeathProtecting Your Family

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.

Verse ConceptsHuman EmotionHeart, HumanMeltingThirty SomeLosing Courage

It shall be that the one who is chosen with the things under the ban shall be [killed and his body] burned with fire, he and all that belongs to him, because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he has done a disgraceful and disobedient thing in Israel.’”

Verse ConceptsCremationFireDeath penaltyBurning PeopleBreaking The CovenantUnder The Ban

When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.

When Israel had completed executing all of the residents of Ai in the open wilderness where they had chased them, and after all of them to the very last of them had been killed by swords, the entire fighting force of Israel returned to Ai and attacked it with swords.

Verse ConceptsCarnageConquest

Yahweh confused them before Israel, and he killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.

Verse ConceptsConfusionCarnage

As they fled before Israel, the Lord threw large hailstones on them from the sky along the descent of Beth-horon all the way to Azekah, and they died. More of them died from the hail than the Israelites killed with the sword.

Verse ConceptsHailSkyWeather, As God's JudgmentGod KillingIsrael FleeingGod Killed The Peoples

And after this Joshua struck them down and killed them, and he hanged them on five trees. And they were hanging on the trees until the evening.

Verse ConceptsGallowsHangingPunishment, Legal Aspects OfFive ThingsKilling KingsAction Until EveningPeople Hung To Death

from Mount Halak [that] rises to Seir and to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon {at the foot of} Mount Hermon; he captured all their kings, struck them, and killed them.

Verse ConceptsKilling Kings

all the cities of the plateau, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon. Moses had killed him and the chiefs of Midian—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—the princes of Sihon who lived in the land.

Verse ConceptsPrincesNamed Gentile Rulers

Along with those the Israelites put to death, they also killed the diviner, Balaam son of Beor, with the sword.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyKilling Named Individuals

And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not hand the one who committed manslaughter over to him, for he killed his neighbor accidentally and did not hate him beforehand.

Verse ConceptsMan AvengingNot Hating

These were the cities of refuge appointed for all the Israelites and for resident foreigners living among them. Anyone who accidentally killed someone could escape there and not be executed by the avenger of blood, at least until his case was reviewed by the assembly.

Verse ConceptsAccidental KillingsForeigners Included In The LawMan AvengingUnintentional

The men of Judah attacked, and the Lord handed the Canaanites and Perizzites over to them. They killed ten thousand men at Bezek.

Verse ConceptsInvasionsTens Of ThousandsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

The men of Judah attacked the Canaanites living in Hebron. (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba.) They killed Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

And they killed at that time about ten thousand of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped.

Verse ConceptsTens Of ThousandsNumbers Of Foreigners Killedhumor

After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed six hundred of the Philistines with an oxgoad; and he too delivered Israel.

Verse ConceptsGoadsDeliverersSix To Seven HundredSharp ToolsSix Hundred And AboveNumbers Of Foreigners Killed

They captured Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian; they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb, while they were pursuing the Midianites. They brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon across the Jordan.

Verse ConceptsWinepressSkullsTreading GrapesNamed Gentile RulersTwo Other Men

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and with them was their army of about 15,000 men, who were all those left of the entire army of the Qedemites. Those who had been killed were 120,000 warriors.

Verse ConceptsEleven To Nineteen ThousandOne Hundred Thousand And MoreSurvivors Of The Nations

He also tore down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.

Verse ConceptsTowersKilling Within Israel

Afterwards, he asked Zebah and Zalmunna, "What were the men like whom you killed at Tabor?" They answered, "Like you, each one like the son of a king""

Verse ConceptsLike People By NatureWhat Kind?Nature Of Kings

Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Get up and kill us yourself, for a man is judged by his strength.” So Gideon got up, killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels.

Verse ConceptsCamelsWearing JewelleryApproval To Kill Oneself

He went to his father’s house in Ophrah and killed his 70 brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal, on top of a large stone. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsThe Youngest ChildBeing Killed By A RockHiding From PeopleSole SurvivorsSeventiesKilling BrothersHalf brothersanniversary

and now you have attacked my father’s house today, killed his 70 sons on top of a large stone, and made Abimelech, the son of his slave, king over the lords of Shechem ‘because he is your brother’—

Verse ConceptsConcubinesIngratitudeBeing Killed By A RockMaking KingsSeventiesKilling Brothers

so that the crime against the 70 sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood would be avenged on their brother Abimelech, who killed them, and on the lords of Shechem, who had helped him kill his brothers.

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Nature OfSeventiesKilling Brothers

So he took his army, divided it into three separate companies, and laid in ambush out in the field. When Abimelech noticed the people coming out from the city, his army attacked them and killed them.

Verse ConceptsThree GroupsAmbush

Then Abimelech and the divisions that [were] with him dashed out and stood [at] the entrance of the city gate, and the two divisions dashed out against all who [were] in the field, and they killed them.

Verse ConceptsCapturing Gates

So Abimelech fought against the city that entire day, captured it, and killed the people who were in it. Then he tore down the city and sowed it with salt.

Verse ConceptsConquestSournesssowing

He quickly called his armor-bearer and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, or they’ll say about me, ‘A woman killed him.’” So his armor-bearer thrust him through, and he died.

Verse ConceptsArmourArmorbearerApproval To Kill OneselfKilling Named Individuals

they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 from Ephraim died.

Verse ConceptsForty Thousand And UpFordsKilling Within Israelbridges

The Spirit of the Lord took control of him, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed 30 of their men. He stripped them and gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle. In a rage, Samson returned to his father’s house,

Verse ConceptsThirtyPeople Giving ClothesAngry PeopleNumbers Of Foreigners KilledGifts Of Supernatural Strengthcrusades

He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand, took it, and killed 1,000 men with it.

Verse ConceptsSmall Things God UsesA Thousand PeopleNumbers Of Foreigners Killed

Then Samson said:With the jawbone of a donkeyI have piled them in a heap.With the jawbone of a donkeyI have killed 1,000 men.

Verse ConceptsA Thousand PeopleNumbers Of Foreigners Killed

When the people saw Samson, they praised their god, claiming: Our god has given our enemy into our control; the one who was destroying our land, and who has killed many of us.

Verse ConceptsPraise, Reasons ForVictory, As An Act Of GodGiven Into One's Hands

Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” He pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the leaders and all the people in it. And the dead he killed at his death were more than those he had killed in his life.

Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfTypes Of ChristResigned To DeathMercy Killings

After they had taken the gods Micah had made and the priest that belonged to him, they went to Laish, to a quiet and unsuspecting people. They killed them with their swords and burned down the city.

Verse ConceptsConflagrationsBurning CitiesMen Of Peace

Then Benjamin turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel killed 5,000 men on the highways. They overtook them at Gidom and struck 2,000 more dead.

Verse ConceptsTwo ThousandFive ThousandOvertaking

The men of Israel turned back against the other Benjaminites and killed them with their swords—the entire city, the animals, and everything that remained. They also burned down all the cities that remained.

Verse ConceptsBurning CitiesBoth Men And Animals Killed

They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli.

Verse ConceptsKilling Domesticated Animals

The Philistines deployed their forces to meet Israel, and as the battle spread Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the battlefield.

Verse ConceptsFour ThousandKilling Within Israel

The ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were killed.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, DescriptionThe Ark Moved Around

But Saul said, "No one will be killed on this day. For today the Lord has given Israel a victory!"

Verse ConceptsMercy, Examples OfRescueAmnesty

Jonathan crawled up on his hands and feet, with his armor bearer following him. The Philistines fell before Jonathan, and his armor bearer who was behind him also killed some.

Verse Conceptsarmor

So was the first attack [in] which Jonathan and {his armor bearer} killed about twenty men within about half of a furrow in an acre of [an] open field.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesTwenty

and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingSheepSpoils Of WarForbidden FoodGod's People Sinning

Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, 'Bring me here every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don't sin against Yahweh in eating meat with the blood.'" All the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there.

Verse ConceptsForbidden FoodGod's People Sinning

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Root Form
Definition
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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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