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# שְׁחִיטָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7821

**slaying** — 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

slaying [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7821/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁחִיטָה: slaying [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7821/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. f. act of slaying;—cstr. שְׁחִיטַת הַפְּסָחִים 2 Ch 30:17.

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: the slaughter (1).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 30:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.30.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.30.17/#tree)

כִּי־רַבַּ֥ת בַּקָּהָ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־הִתְקַדָּ֑שׁוּ וְהַלְוִיִּ֞ם עַל־שְׁחִיטַ֣ת הַפְּסָחִ֗ים לְכֹל֙ לֹ֣א טָה֔וֹר לְהַקְדִּ֖ישׁ לַיהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) many among the assembly who not they.had.consecrated.themselves and the Levites \[were\].over the.slaughter of the.passovers for every not clean to consecrate.\[them\] to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* For there were many in the congregation that had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites had the charge of killing the passover lambs for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7821.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7821/): 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).