Midvash

זָבַחzâbach

slaughter for sacrifice

Pronunciation: zaw-bakh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2076

Meanings

Qal: active (1 Kings 8:63; 1 Kings 13:2; Exodus 20:24)

I. slaughter for sacrifice

1. with accusative

b. sacrificers of mankind, men that sacrifice (1 Kings 8:63; Numbers 22:40; 2 Chronicles 18:2)

2. absolute (1 Samuel 1:5)

3. with לְ of deity (Judges 16:23; Leviticus 17:7; Deuteronomy 32:17)

4. with local preposition בְּ (Genesis 31:54; Exodus 20:24; Leviticus 9:4)

II. slaughter for eating, connected also with sacrifice, as all eating of flesh among ancient Hebrews was sacrificial (1 Samuel 28:24; Ezekiel 34:3; 2 Chronicles 18:2)

III. slaughter in divine judgment (Ezekiel 39:17-19; 1 Kings 13:2; 2 Kings 23:20)

Pi`el: sacrifice (2 Chronicles 33:22; Psalms 106:38; Hosea 12:12)

1. of the abundant sacrifices made to Yahweh by Solomon (1 Kings 8:5; 2 Chronicles 5:6; 2 Chronicles 30:22)

2. elsewhere of sacrifice to other deities, possibly iterative in some cases, but certainly not in all (Hosea 11:2; 1 Kings 11:8; 1 Kings 12:32)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 134 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 31:54 Then Jacob offered a sacrifice to God there on the mountain and invited everyone to a covenant feast. After they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.
  • Genesis 46:1 So Jacob set out for Egypt with all his possessions. And when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
  • Exodus 3:18 “The elders of Israel will accept your message. Then you and the elders must go to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the Lord, our God.’
  • Exodus 5:3 But Aaron and Moses persisted. “The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they declared. “So let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness so we can offer sacrifices to the Lord our God. If we don’t, he will kill us with a plague or with the sword.”
  • Exodus 5:8 But still require them to make the same number of bricks as before. Don’t reduce the quota. They are lazy. That’s why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifices to our God.’
  • Exodus 5:17 But Pharaoh shouted, “You’re just lazy! Lazy! That’s why you’re saying, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifices to the Lord.’
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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).