31 occurrences in 12 translations

'Murder' in the Bible

I'll never join their council; I'll never enter their assembly. In their anger they committed murder and lamed cattle just for fun.

If a person schemes and willfully acts against his neighbor to murder him, you must take him from My altar to be put to death.

instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord before His tabernacle—that person will be considered guilty. He has shed blood and must be cut off from his people.

or if he struck him with his hand out of hatred so that he died, then the killer is certainly to be put to death for murder. The avenger of blood is to put him to death when he meets him."

and the blood avenger finds him outside the town of refuge where he had fled and kills him, the blood avenger is not to be found guilty of murder.

You are to receive no ransom for the life of a killer who is guilty of murder; instead, he is to die.

You must not shed innocent blood on your land that the LORD your God is about to give you as an inheritance. Otherwise, you'll be guilty of murder."

“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,

'Cursed be the one who takes a bribe {to murder an innocent person}.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

so that the violence committed against the 70 sons of Jerubbaal might come back on their brother Abimelech, who murdered them, and so it might come back on the "lords" of Shechem, who provoked him to murder his brothers.

As a result, the entire army and all of Israel understood that day that the king had nothing to do with the murder of Ner's son Abner.

The LORD has repaid you personally for murdering the entire dynasty of Saul, whose place you've taken to reign! And the LORD has given the kingdom into your son Absalom's control. Now look! Your own evil has caught up with you, because you're guilty of murder!"

If these people regularly go to offer sacrifices in the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem, the heart of these people will return to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah. They will murder me and go back to the king of Judah.”

Ask the king, "Did you commit murder? And now you're going to steal as well?' Also tell him, "This is what the LORD says: "Where the dogs were licking up Naboth's blood, dogs will also lick up your blood that's right yours!"'"

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

Rescue me from the guilt of murder, O God, the God who delivers me! Then my tongue will shout for joy because of your deliverance.

For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; a prayer of David, written when Saul sent men to surround his house and murder him. Deliver me from my enemies, my God! Protect me from those who attack me!

How long will you assail a man,That you may murder him, all of you,Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

Let our cattle bearWithout mishap and without loss,And let there be no outcry in our streets!

because their feet run toward troubleand they hurry to commit murder.

The one who walks righteously and has spoken sincere words, who rejects gain from extortion and waves his hand, rejecting bribes, who blocks his ears from hearing plots of murder and shuts his eyes against seeing evil

He said to me, "The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption, for they say, 'The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!'

I'll judge you with the same standards by which I issue verdicts against a woman who commits adultery and murder. I'll avenge the blood you've shed with impassioned wrath.

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
הרג 
Harag 
Usage: 166

רצח 
Ratsach 
Usage: 47

ἀνθρωποκτόνος 
Anthropoktonos 
Usage: 2

μητραλῴας 
metraloas 
Usage: 1

πατραλῴας 
Patraloas 
murder of a father
Usage: 1

φονεύς 
Phoneus 
Usage: 5

φονεύω 
Phoneuo 
kill , do murder , slay
Usage: 5

φόνος 
Phonos 
Usage: 7

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