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# שַׁחֲטָה

Biblical Hebrew

**the revolters are gone deep in slaughtering** — 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

the revolters are gone deep in slaughtering [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d7_5b2_5d8_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁחֲטָה: n.f. Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d7_5b2_5d8_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. (Qal Inf. cstr. Köi. 263) doubtful word;—וְשׁ׳ שֵׂטִים הֶעְמִיקוּ Ho 5:2 RV (cf. AV) the revolters are gone deep in slaughtering \[‘Opferschlächterei’ Köii 1. 590, n. 1\], Ew Now (formerly), Che in corrupting (read then שַׁחֲתָה); We Now GASm Marti שַׁחַת הַשִּׁטִּים have made deep the pit of Shiṭṭim (as place of idolatry).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 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: slaughtering (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 5:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.5.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.5.2/#tree)

וְשַׁחֲטָ֥ה שֵׂטִ֖ים הֶעְמִ֑יקוּ וַאֲנִ֖י מוּסָ֥ר לְכֻלָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and slaughtering rebels they.have.made.deep and I \[am\].discipline to all of.them

*JPS 1917:* And they that fall away are gone deep in making slaughter; and I am rejected of them all.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d7_5b2_5d8_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d7_5b2_5d8_5b8_5d4/): 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).