קְטַלqᵉṭal

slay

Pronunciation: ket-al' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6992

Meanings

Pe`al: active (Daniel 5:19)

Pe`îl: be slain (Daniel 5:30; Daniel 7:11)

Pa`el: slay (Daniel 3:22; Daniel 2:14)

Hithpe`el: be slain (Daniel 2:13)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 7 times in the Bible.

  • Daniel 2:13 And because of the king’s decree, men were sent to find and kill Daniel and his friends.
  • Daniel 2:14 When Arioch, the commander of the king’s guard, came to kill them, Daniel handled the situation with wisdom and discretion.
  • Daniel 3:22 And because the king, in his anger, had demanded such a hot fire in the furnace, the flames killed the soldiers as they threw the three men in.
  • Daniel 5:19 He made him so great that people of all races and nations and languages trembled before him in fear. He killed those he wanted to kill and spared those he wanted to spare. He honored those he wanted to honor and disgraced those he wanted to disgrace.
  • Daniel 5:30 That very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.
  • Daniel 7:11 I continued to watch because I could hear the little horn’s boastful speech. I kept watching until the fourth beast was killed and its body was destroyed by fire.
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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).