10 occurrences in 12 translations

'Kill' in the Bible

And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.

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

When the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, “My father, should I kill them? I will kill them.”

Verse ConceptsVindictivenessDuplicating WordsApproval To Kill

Elisha replied, “Don’t kill them. Do you kill those you have captured with your sword or your bow? Set food and water in front of them so they can eat and drink and go to their master.”

Verse ConceptsMercy, Examples OfGenerosity, HumanOpposition, To Sin And EvilWater

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

If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

Verse ConceptsPessimismResigned To DeathDyingSurrender

and Hazael asked, “Why is my lord weeping?”He replied, “Because I know the evil you will do to the people of Israel. You will set their fortresses on fire. You will kill their young men with the sword. You will dash their little ones to pieces. You will rip open their pregnant women.”

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofPregnancyGashing BodiesHarming Pregnant WomenKilling Will Happen

When he finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and officers, “Go in and kill them. Don’t let anyone out.” So they struck them down with the sword. Then the guards and officers threw the bodies out and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal.

Verse ConceptsBurnt offeringShrinesNo EscapeApproval To Kill

But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsRestraints From KillingApproval To Kill

But the sons of the killers he did not kill, as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which Yahweh had commanded, saying, "Fathers should not be killed because of children, and children should not be killed because of fathers; but a man should die because of his [own] sin."

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

So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations whom you have carried away into exile in the cities of Samaria do not know the custom of the god of the land; so he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them because they do not know the custom of the god of the land.”

Verse ConceptsRejection Of God

Bible Theasaurus

Assassinate (7 instances)
Butcher (6 instances)
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Strong's
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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