1) to slaughter, kill, sacrifice, slaughter for sacrifice 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to slaughter for sacrifice 1a2) to slaughter for eating 1a3) to slaughter in divine judgment 1b) (Piel) to sacrifice, offer sacrifice Aramaic equivalent: de.vach (דְּבַח "to sacrifice" H1684)
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H2076 — זָבַח
za.vach · to sacrifice · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 31:54 · וַיִּזְבַּ֨חThen Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.Genesis 46:1 · וַיִּזְבַּ֣חSo Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.Exodus 3:18 · וְנִזְבְּחָ֖הThe elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’Exodus 5:3 · וְנִזְבְּחָה֙“The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”Exodus 5:8 · נִזְבְּחָ֥הBut require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’Exodus 5:17 · נִזְבְּחָ֥ה“You are slackers!” Pharaoh replied. “Slackers! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’Exodus 8:8 · וְיִזְבְּח֖וּPharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the LORD to take the frogs away from me and my people. Then I will let your people go, that they may sacrifice to the LORD.”Exodus 8:25 · זִבְח֥וּThen Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within this land.”Exodus 8:26 · נִזְבַּ֖ח · נִזְבַּ֞חBut Moses replied, “It would not be right to do that, because the sacrifices we offer to the LORD our God would be detestable to the Egyptians. If we offer sacrifices that are detestable before the Egyptians, will they not stone us?Exodus 8:27 · וְזָבַ֙חְנוּ֙We must make a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He commands us.”Exodus 8:28 · וּזְבַחְתֶּ֞םPharaoh answered, “I will let you go and sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.”Exodus 8:29 · לִזְבֹּ֖חַ“As soon as I leave you,” Moses said, “I will pray to the LORD, so that tomorrow the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh and his officials and his people. But Pharaoh must not act deceitfully again by refusing to let the people go and sacrifice to the LORD.”Exodus 13:15 · זֹבֵ֜חַAnd when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast. This is why I sacrifice to the LORD the firstborn male of every womb, but I redeem all the firstborn of my sons.’Exodus 20:24 · וְזָבַחְתָּ֣You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.Exodus 22:20 · זֹבֵ֥חַIf anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.Exodus 23:18 · תִזְבַּ֥חYou must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.Exodus 24:5 · וַֽיִּזְבְּח֞וּThen he sent out some young men of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD.Exodus 32:8 · וַיִּזְבְּחוּ־How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”Exodus 34:15 · וְזָבְחוּ֙Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.Leviticus 9:4 · לִזְבֹּ֙חַ֙an ox and a ram for a peace offering to sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with oil. For today the LORD will appear to you.’”Leviticus 17:5 · זֹבְחִים֮ · וְזָ֨בְח֜וּFor this reason the Israelites will bring to the LORD the sacrifices they have been offering in the open fields. They are to bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and offer them as sacrifices of peace offerings to the LORD.Leviticus 17:7 · יִזְבְּח֥וּThey must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.’Leviticus 19:5 · תִזְבְּח֛וּ · תִּזְבָּחֻֽהוּ׃When you sacrifice a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance.Leviticus 22:29 · תִזְבְּח֥וּ · תִּזְבָּֽחוּ׃When you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, offer it so that it may be acceptable on your behalf.Numbers 22:40 · וַיִּזְבַּ֥חBalak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and he gave portions to Balaam and the princes who were with him.Deuteronomy 12:15 · תִּזְבַּ֣ח׀But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,Deuteronomy 12:21 · וְזָבַחְתָּ֞If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.Deuteronomy 15:21 · תִזְבָּחֶ֔נּוּBut if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.Deuteronomy 16:2 · וְזָבַ֥חְתָּYou are to offer to the LORD your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name.Deuteronomy 16:4 · תִּזְבַּ֥חNo leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.Deuteronomy 16:5 · לִזְבֹּ֣חַYou are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.Deuteronomy 16:6 · תִּזְבַּ֥חYou must only offer the Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt.Deuteronomy 17:1 · תִזְבַּח֩You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw, for that is detestable to the LORD your God.Deuteronomy 18:3 · זֹבְחֵ֥יThis shall be the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether a bull or a sheep: the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.Deuteronomy 27:7 · וְזָבַחְתָּ֥There you are to sacrifice your peace offerings, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the LORD your God.Deuteronomy 32:17 · יִזְבְּח֗וּThey sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.Deuteronomy 33:19 · יִזְבְּח֣וּThey will call the peoples to a mountain; there they will offer sacrifices of righteousness. For they will feast on the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand.”Joshua 8:31 · וַֽיִּזְבְּח֖וּjust as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: “an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool has been used.” And on it they offered burnt offerings to the LORD, and they sacrificed peace offerings.Judges 2:5 · וַיִּזְבְּחוּ־So they called that place Bochim and offered sacrifices there to the LORD.Judges 16:23 · לִזְבֹּ֧חַNow the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”1 Samuel 1:3 · וְלִזְבֹּ֛חַYear after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.1 Samuel 1:4 · וַיִּזְבַּ֖חAnd whenever the day came for Elkanah to present his sacrifice, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.1 Samuel 1:21 · לִזְבֹּ֧חַThen Elkanah and all his house went up to make the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow,1 Samuel 2:13 · זֹבֵ֣חַor for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling1 Samuel 2:15 · הַזֹּבֵ֔חַEven before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”1 Samuel 2:19 · לִזְבֹּ֖חַEach year his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.1 Samuel 6:15 · וַֽיִּזְבְּח֧וּAnd the Levites took down the ark of the LORD and the chest containing the gold objects, and they placed them on the large rock. That day the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the LORD.1 Samuel 10:8 · לִזְבֹּ֖חַAnd you shall go before me to Gilgal, and surely I will come to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Wait seven days until I come to you and show you what you are to do.”1 Samuel 11:15 · וַיִּזְבְּחוּ־So all the people went to Gilgal and confirmed Saul as king in the presence of the LORD. There they sacrificed peace offerings before the LORD, and Saul and all the Israelites rejoiced greatly.1 Samuel 15:15 · זְבֹ֖חַSaul answered, “The troops brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but the rest we devoted to destruction.”1 Samuel 15:21 · לִזְבֹּ֛חַThe troops took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of the things devoted to destruction, in order to sacrifice them to the LORD your God at Gilgal.”1 Samuel 16:2 · לִזְבֹּ֥חַ“How can I go?” Samuel asked. “Saul will hear of it and kill me!” The LORD answered, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’1 Samuel 16:5 · לִזְבֹּ֤חַ“In peace,” he replied. “I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.1 Samuel 28:24 · וַתִּזְבָּחֵ֑הוּThe woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.2 Samuel 6:13 · וַיִּזְבַּ֥חWhen those carrying the ark of the LORD had advanced six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.2 Samuel 15:12 · בְּזָבְח֖וֹWhile Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, to come from his hometown of Giloh. So the conspiracy gained strength, and Absalom’s following kept increasing.1 Kings 1:9 · וַיִּזְבַּ֣חAnd Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened calves near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel. He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah who were servants of the king.1 Kings 1:19 · וַ֠יִּזְבַּחAnd he has sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the other sons of the king, as well as Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army. But he has not invited your servant Solomon.1 Kings 1:25 · וַ֠יִּזְבַּחFor today he has gone down and sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the sons of the king, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest. And behold, they are eating and drinking before him, saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’1 Kings 3:2 · מְזַבְּחִ֖יםThe people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.1 Kings 3:3 · מְזַבֵּ֖חַAnd Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.1 Kings 3:4 · לִזְבֹּ֣חַNow the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.1 Kings 8:5 · מְזַבְּחִים֙There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.1 Kings 8:62 · זֹבְחִ֥יםThen the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD.1 Kings 8:63 · וַיִּזְבַּ֣ח · זָבַ֣חAnd Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.1 Kings 11:8 · וּֽמְזַבְּח֖וֹתHe did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.1 Kings 12:32 · לְזַבֵּ֖חַAnd Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.1 Kings 13:2 · וְזָבַ֣חAnd he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”1 Kings 19:21 · וַיִּזְבָּחֵ֗הוּSo Elisha turned back from him, took his pair of oxen, and slaughtered them. Using the oxen’s equipment for fuel, he cooked the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow and serve Elijah.2 Kings 12:3 · מְזַבְּחִ֥יםNevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.2 Kings 14:4 · מְזַבְּחִ֥יםNevertheless, the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.2 Kings 15:4 · מְזַבְּחִ֥יםNevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.2 Kings 15:35 · מְזַבְּחִ֥יםNevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there. Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD.2 Kings 16:4 · וַיְזַבֵּ֧חַAnd he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.2 Kings 17:35 · תִזְבְּח֖וּFor the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites and commanded them, “Do not worship other gods or bow down to them; do not serve them or sacrifice to them.2 Kings 17:36 · תִזְבָּֽחוּ׃Instead, worship the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm. You are to bow down to Him and offer sacrifices to Him.2 Kings 23:20 · וַ֠יִּזְבַּחOn the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.1 Chronicles 15:26 · וַיִּזְבְּח֥וּAnd because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.1 Chronicles 21:28 · וַיִּזְבַּ֖חAt that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.1 Chronicles 29:21 · וַיִּזְבְּח֣וּThe next day they offered sacrifices and presented burnt offerings to the LORD: a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, along with their drink offerings, and other sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.2 Chronicles 5:6 · מְזַבְּחִים֙There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.2 Chronicles 7:4 · זֹבְחִ֥יםThen the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.2 Chronicles 7:5 · וַיִּזְבַּ֞חAnd King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.2 Chronicles 11:16 · לִזְבּ֕וֹחַThose from every tribe of Israel who had set their hearts to seek the LORD their God followed the Levites to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.2 Chronicles 15:11 · וַיִּזְבְּח֤וּAt that time they sacrificed to the LORD seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep from all the plunder they had brought back.2 Chronicles 18:2 · וַיִּֽזְבַּֽח־And some years later he went down to visit Ahab in Samaria, where Ahab sacrificed many sheep and cattle for him and the people with him and urged him to march up to Ramoth-gilead.2 Chronicles 28:4 · וַיְזַבֵּ֧חַAnd he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.2 Chronicles 28:23 · וַיִּזְבַּ֗ח · אֲזַבֵּ֖חַHe sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him, and he said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But these gods were the downfall of Ahaz and of all Israel.2 Chronicles 30:22 · מְזַבְּחִים֙And Hezekiah encouraged all the Levites who performed skillfully before the LORD. For seven days they ate their assigned portion, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the LORD, the God of their fathers.2 Chronicles 33:16 · וַיִּזְבַּ֣חThen he restored the altar of the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and he told Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.2 Chronicles 33:17 · זֹבְחִ֖יםNevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.2 Chronicles 33:22 · זִבַּ֥חAnd he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made,2 Chronicles 34:4 · הַזֹּבְחִ֖יםThen in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.Ezra 4:2 · זֹבְחִ֗יםthey approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families, saying, “Let us build with you because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to Him since the time of King Esar-haddon of Assyria, who brought us here.”Nehemiah 4:2 · הֲיִזְבָּ֙חוּ֙before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”Nehemiah 12:43 · וַיִּזְבְּח֣וּOn that day they offered great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard from afar.Psalm 4:5 · זִבְח֥וּOffer the sacrifices of the righteous and trust in the LORD.Psalm 27:6 · וְאֶזְבְּחָ֣הThen my head will be held high above my enemies around me. At His tabernacle I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the LORD.Psalm 50:14 · זְבַ֣חSacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.Psalm 50:23 · זֹבֵ֥חַHe who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rightly orders his way, I will show the salvation of God.”Psalm 54:6 · אֶזְבְּחָה־Freely I will sacrifice to You; I will praise Your name, O LORD, for it is good.Psalm 106:37 · וַיִּזְבְּח֣וּThey sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.Psalm 106:38 · זִ֭בְּחוּThey shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.Psalm 107:22 · וְ֭יִזְבְּחוּLet them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing.Psalm 116:17 · אֶ֭זְבַּחI will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.Ecclesiastes 9:2 · וְלַזֹּבֵ֔חַ · זֹבֵ֑חַIt is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.Isaiah 57:7 · לִזְבֹּ֥חַOn a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.Isaiah 65:3 · זֹֽבְחִים֙to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,Isaiah 66:3 · זוֹבֵ֤חַWhoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.Hosea 4:13 · יְזַבֵּ֗חוּThey sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.Hosea 4:14 · יְזַבֵּ֑חוּI will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.Hosea 8:13 · יִזְבְּח֤וּThough they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.Hosea 11:2 · יְזַבֵּ֔חוּBut the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.Hosea 12:11 · זִבֵּ֑חוּIs there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.Hosea 13:2 · זֹבְחֵ֣יNow they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”Jonah 1:16 · וַיִּֽזְבְּחוּ־Then the men feared the LORD greatly, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows to Him.Jonah 2:9 · אֶזְבְּחָה־But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!”Habakkuk 1:16 · יְזַבֵּ֣חַTherefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.Zechariah 14:21 · הַזֹּ֣בְחִ֔יםIndeed, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the LORD of Hosts, and all who sacrifice will come and take some pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of Hosts.Malachi 1:8 · לִזְבֹּ֙חַ֙When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.Malachi 1:14 · וְזֹבֵ֥חַ“But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.