Midvash

שָׁחַטshâchaṭ

שָׁחַט: slaughter, beat

Pronunciation: shaw-khat' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7819

Meanings

Qal: slaughter (Jeremiah 39:6; Leviticus 3:2; Leviticus 4:24)

1. beast (1 Samuel 14:32; 1 Samuel 14:34; Isaiah 22:13)

2. usually, technical term of killing sacrifice (1 Samuel 1:25; Exodus 29:11; Leviticus 1:5)

3. slaughter, person (Judges 12:6; 1 Kings 18:40; 2 Kings 10:7)

4. passive participle = beaten, hammered (1 Kings 10:16; 1 Kings 10:17; 2 Chronicles 9:15)

Niph`al: be slaughtered (Numbers 11:22; Leviticus 6:18)

שְׁחֲטָה: Qal: doubtful word (Hosea 5:2)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 81 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 22:10 And Abraham picked up the knife to kill his son as a sacrifice.
  • Genesis 37:31 Then the brothers killed a young goat and dipped Joseph’s robe in its blood.
  • Exodus 12:6 “Take special care of this chosen animal until the evening of the fourteenth day of this first month. Then the whole assembly of the community of Israel must slaughter their lamb or young goat at twilight.
  • Exodus 12:21 Then Moses called all the elders of Israel together and said to them, “Go, pick out a lamb or young goat for each of your families, and slaughter the Passover animal.
  • Exodus 29:11 Then slaughter the bull in the Lord’s presence at the entrance of the Tabernacle.
  • Exodus 29:16 Then slaughter the ram, and splatter its blood against all sides of the altar.
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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).