Words the Bible translates as kill
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 12 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- nakhahנָכָהto deliver a blow: to strike someone or something, whether a single hit, a fatal stroke, a battlefield rout, or an affliction sent from God
- apokteinōἀποκτείνωto kill: to put someone to death, or to destroy something so completely that it no longer has any life in it
- thanatoōθανατόωto put to death: to end a life on purpose, whether by a court's sentence, a betrayal, or a killing blow, and by extension to kill off whatever still holds power over a person
- haragהָרַגto kill: to put a person (or creature) to death by violence
- thuōθύωto slaughter an animal, whether as an offering to a god or for a meal
- anaireōἀναιρέωto do away with entirely: to kill a person, or abolish an institution
+1 more meaning
- to take up a child and raise it as one's own: to adopt
- shaḥatשָׁחַטto slaughter: to kill an animal or a person by cutting the throat and draining the blood
- phoneuōφονεύωto murder: to kill a human being wrongfully, in violation of God's law
- ratsaḥרָצַחto take a fellow human being's life by violence in a way the community must answer for: the killing that triggers Israel's blood-revenge and refuge-city laws, covering murder, accidental killing, and even the killing done in response to it
- tavaḥטָבַחto butcher: to kill an animal and cut it up for eating, and so to cut people down like meat animals
- qatalקָטַלto kill: a rare poetic word for putting a person to death
- diacheirizōδιαχειρίζωto killnot studied yet
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