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# אִבְחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H19

**slaughter** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

slaughter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/19/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אִבְחָה: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/19/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. cstr. אִבְחַת חֶרֶב Ez 21:20; Dl, as above, slaughter; but prob. error for טבחת (v. טבח) Ges Co; 𝔊 σφάγια ῥομφαίας, cf. 𝔗.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a slaughter (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 21:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.20/#tree)

לְמַ֣עַן ׀ לָמ֣וּג לֵ֗ב וְהַרְבֵּה֙ הַמִּכְשֹׁלִ֔ים עַ֚ל כָּל־שַׁ֣עֲרֵיהֶ֔ם נָתַ֖תִּי אִבְחַת־חָ֑רֶב אָ֛ח עֲשׂוּיָ֥ה לְבָרָ֖ק מְעֻטָּ֥ה לְטָֽבַח׃

*Word for word:* so.as to melt a.heart and \[may.be\].many the stumblings at all gates their I.have.set a.slaughter of.a.sword alas! \[it.is\].made for lightning \[it.is\].wrapped for slaughter

*JPS 1917:* I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied; ah! it is made glittering, it is sharpened for slaughter.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/19.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/19/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).