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# הֲרֵגָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2028

**slaughter** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

slaughter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2028/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הֲרֵגָה: n.f. slaughter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2028/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. slaughter; only abs. in foll. combinations, גֵּיא ה׳; Je 7:32; 19:6 new name for גֵּיא בֶן־הִנֹּם; יוֹם ה׳ Je 12:3 of the wicked, i.e. day of judgment; צֹאן ה׳ Zc 11:4, 7 i.e. Judah and Israel, slaughtered by their shepherds.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 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: slaughter (4); of slaughter (1).

## In the verses

[Zechariah 11:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.11.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.11.4/#tree)

כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהָ֑י רְעֵ֖ה אֶת־צֹ֥אן הַהֲרֵגָֽה׃

*Word for word:* thus he.says Yahweh God my shepherd (et) the.flock of.(the) slaughter

*JPS 1917:* Thus said the LORD my God: 'Feed the flock of slaughter;

[Jeremiah 12:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.3/#tree)

וְאַתָּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ יְדַעְתָּ֔נִי תִּרְאֵ֕נִי וּבָחַנְתָּ֥ לִבִּ֖י אִתָּ֑ךְ הַתִּקֵם֙ כְּצֹ֣אן לְטִבְחָ֔ה וְהַקְדִּשֵׁ֖ם לְי֥וֹם הֲרֵגָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and you O.Yahweh you know.me you see.me and you.test heart my with you drag them.away like sheep to slaughter and set them.apart to a.day of.slaughter

*JPS 1917:* But Thou, O LORD, knowest me, Thou seest me, and triest my heart toward Thee; pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2028.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2028/): 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).