14 occurrences in 12 translations

'Murderers' in the Bible

Meanwhile, Elisha was sitting in his house, along with the elders, when the king sent a man to kill him, but before the messenger arrived, Elisha told the elders, "Are you watching how this descendant of murderers has ordered my head be cut off? Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and hold it to shut them out! Don't you hear the sound of his master's feet right behind him?"

Verse ConceptsMessengerRemoving HeadsShutting DoorsKilling ProphetsSkullsSoundThe Elders Gathered

But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

Verse ConceptsBook of the LawSins Of The FathersWritten In The LawDeath Of A Child

For the one who takes revenge against murderers took notice of the oppressed; he did not overlook their cry for help

Verse ConceptsAvenger of bloodSuffering, Of The InnocentGod Remembering The NeedyCries Of Distress To GodGod ReprovingScoffersmindfulness

Lord, use your power to deliver me from these murderers, from the murderers of this world! They enjoy prosperity; you overwhelm them with the riches they desire. They have many children, and leave their wealth to their offspring.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual MalnutritionLimitednessBabiesThriftSins Of The FathersLack Of HolinessFutility Of Worldly Pursuits

How long will you threaten a man? All of you are murderers, as dangerous as a leaning wall or an unstable fence.

Verse ConceptsEvil PlansWalls

How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

Verse ConceptsBabylonSpiritual HarlotryInjustice, Examples OfProstitutionHarlotswhores

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Nature OfVoicesLabour PainsHaving No BreathFaintingJudged As Murderers

But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

Verse ConceptsGod KillingBurning CitiesGod KillsAngry People

Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?

Verse ConceptsFour ThousandTemporary Stay In The Wilderness

Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

Verse ConceptsLawlessnessGrace, And SalvationMurderSin, Nature OfHomosexualityJudgement On MurderersLack Of Holinessdisobedience

You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your lust goes unfulfilled; so you murder. You are envious and cannot obtain [the object of your envy]; so you fight and battle. You do not have because you do not ask [it of God].

Verse ConceptsAmbition, Warnings RegardingPrayer, Practicalities OfPrayerlessnessCovetousness, Nature ofEvil DesiresReady To KillFighting One Anothergrandmas

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Strong's
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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