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# הֶרֶג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2027

**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/1492/2027/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הֶ֫רֶג: n.m. slaughter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2027/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 30:25 slaughter—ה׳ abs. Pr 24:11 + 2 times + Ez 26:15 (𝔊 Co חֶרֶב); cstr. Is 27:7—of Jews’ slaughter of their enemies Est 9:5 (‖ אַבְדָֿ֑ן); מָטִים לַהֶרֶג Pr 24:11 (‖ לְקֻחִים לַמָּ֑וֶת); כְּהֶרֶג הֲרוּגָיו הֹרָ֑ג Is 27:7; ביום הֶרֶג רַב Is 30:25 (cf. ביום חֲבשׁ י׳ אֶת־שֶׁבֶר עַמּוֹ v 26). Ez 26:15 read with 𝔊 Co supr.

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: slaughter (2); a slaughter (1); of slaughter (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 24:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.11/#tree)

הַ֭צֵּל לְקֻחִ֣ים לַמָּ֑וֶת וּמָטִ֥ים לַ֝הֶ֗רֶג אִם־תַּחְשֽׂוֹךְ׃

*Word for word:* deliver \[those.who.are.being\].taken to (the) death and \[those.who.are\].staggering to the slaughter if you.will.restrain

*JPS 1917:* Deliver them that are drawn unto death; and those that are ready to be slain wilt thou forbear to rescue?

[Isaiah 27:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.27.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.27.7/#tree)

הַכְּמַכַּ֥ת מַכֵּ֖הוּ הִכָּ֑הוּ אִם־כְּהֶ֥רֶג הֲרֻגָ֖יו הֹרָֽג׃

*Word for word:* like the blow? of the.\[one.who\].struck.it has he.struck.it or? like the.slaughter of its.slain.\[ones\] has.it.been.slain

*JPS 1917:* Hath He smitten him as He smote those that smote him? Or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by Him?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2027.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2027/): 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).