Midvash

הָרַגhârag

kill, slay

Pronunciation: haw-rag' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2026

Meanings

Qal: construct, suffix (Judges 9:24; 2 Samuel 14:7; Isaiah 27:1)

1.

a. kill, slay, implying ruthless violence, especially private violence (Genesis 4:8; Genesis 4:14; Genesis 4:15)

b. the slain (Numbers 31:7; Numbers 31:8; Numbers 31:17)

2. of God's slaying in judgment (stern and inscrutable) (Genesis 20:4; Exodus 4:23; Exodus 13:15)

3. rarely of judicial killing by men (at God's command) (Exodus 32:27; Leviticus 20:15; Leviticus 20:16)

4. of killing beasts (Numbers 22:29; Leviticus 20:15; Isaiah 22:13)

5. of killing by beasts (2 Kings 17:25; Job 20:16)

6. quite general (Ecclesiastes 3:3)

7. destroy, ruin (Job 5:2; Proverbs 1:32; Proverbs 7:26)

Niph`al

1. passive of Qal 1.a. (Lamentations 2:20)

2. passive of Qal 1.b. (Ezekiel 26:6; Ezekiel 26:15)

Pu`al: be slain, (passive of Qal 1.b. (Isaiah 27:7; Psalms 44:23)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 167 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 4:8 One day Cain suggested to his brother, “Let’s go out into the fields.” And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother, Abel, and killed him.
  • Genesis 4:14 You have banished me from the land and from your presence; you have made me a homeless wanderer. Anyone who finds me will kill me!”
  • Genesis 4:15 The Lord replied, “No, for I will give a sevenfold punishment to anyone who kills you.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain to warn anyone who might try to kill him.
  • Genesis 4:23 One day Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; listen to me, you wives of Lamech. I have killed a man who attacked me, a young man who wounded me.
  • Genesis 4:25 Adam had sexual relations with his wife again, and she gave birth to another son. She named him Seth, for she said, “God has granted me another son in place of Abel, whom Cain killed.”
  • Genesis 12:12 When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife. Let’s kill him; then we can have her!’
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).