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# טִבְחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2878

**thing slaughtered** — used 3 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

thing slaughtered [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2878/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טִבְחָה: n.f. thing slaughtered, slaughtered meat, slaughter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2878/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. thing slaughtered, slaughtered meat, slaughter— sf. טִבְחָתִי as acc. cogn. after טָבַח 1 S 25:11 of meat killed for food. slaughter for food (= i. טֶבַח 1): כְּצֹאן ט׳ ψ 44:23 like a flock for slaughter, sim. of the harassed godly; כְּצֹאן לְטִבְחָה Je 12:3 sim. of judgment of wicked (‖ לְיוֹם הֲרֵגָה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 44:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.44.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.44.23/#tree)

כִּֽי־עָ֭לֶיךָ הֹרַ֣גְנוּ כָל־הַיּ֑וֹם נֶ֝חְשַׁ֗בְנוּ כְּצֹ֣אן טִבְחָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) on you we.have.been.killed all the day we.have.been.regarded like sheep of.slaughter

*JPS 1917:* Nay, but for Thy sake are we killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for the 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/2878.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2878/): 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).