Words the Bible translates as slay
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 9 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- mutמוּתto die: for a living thing to lose its life and stop living.
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- to put to death, to kill: to be the cause of someone's death.
- 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
- anaireōἀναιρέωto do away with entirely: to kill a person, or abolish an institution
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- 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
- tavaḥטָבַחto butcher: to kill an animal and cut it up for eating, and so to cut people down like meat animals
- qetalקְטַלto slaynot studied yet
- qatalקָטַלto kill: a rare poetic word for putting a person to death
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