הָרַג (ha.rag) means “to kill” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: haw-rag' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
הָרַג · ha.rag · to kill
1) to kill, slay, murder, destroy, murderer, slayer, out of hand 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to kill, slay 1a2) to destroy, ruin 1b) (Niphal) to be killed 1c) (Pual) to be killed, be slain
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a primitive root; to smite with deadly intent
KJV glosses: destroy, out of hand, kill, murder(-er), put to (death), make (slaughter), slay(-er), [idiom] surely.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| killed | 9 |
| and killed | 7 |
| kill | 7 |
| and slaughtered | 4 |
| they killed | 4 |
| to kill | 4 |
| and they killed | 3 |
| to kill you | 3 |
| and i will kill | 2 |
| and killed him | 2 |
| and killed the egyptian | 2 |
| had killed | 2 |
| he killed | 2 |
| he will kill me | 2 |
| he will slaughter | 2 |
| her slain | 2 |
| kill them | 2 |
| killed him | 2 |
| murdered | 2 |
| they kill | 2 |
| to kill me | 2 |
| will be slain | 2 |
| will kill me | 2 |
| along with the others they put | 1 |
| amaziah executed | 1 |
| and he killed them | 1 |
| and he put to death | 1 |
| and he will slay | 1 |
| and kill | 1 |
| and kill me | 1 |
| and kill them | 1 |
| and put her | 1 |
| and put him to death | 1 |
| and put to death | 1 |
| and slay | 1 |
| and they killed him | 1 |
| and they killed rechab and baanah | 1 |
| as well as | 1 |
| be killed | 1 |
| be slain | 1 |
| before the murderers | 1 |
| but you have slaughtered | 1 |
| butchering | 1 |
| by putting | 1 |
| by those slain | 1 |
| death | 1 |
| did you kill | 1 |
| each of you must kill | 1 |
| for slaughter | 1 |
| have killed | 1 |
| have slain a man | 1 |
| he had killed | 1 |
| he has killed | 1 |
| he killed them | 1 |
| he slays | 1 |
| he slew them | 1 |
| i have slain them | 1 |
| i killed | 1 |
| i would kill you | 1 |
| i would surely have killed | 1 |
| in murdering | 1 |
| instead joash killed | 1 |
| kill me | 1 |
| kill me right now | 1 |
| kill the gibeonites | 1 |
| kill you | 1 |
| killed some | 1 |
| killing | 1 |
| kills | 1 |
| let us kill him | 1 |
| murder | 1 |
| murderer | 1 |
| of the slayer | 1 |
| of those killed | 1 |
| of those who slay you | 1 |
| plotting to kill you | 1 |
| slain | 1 |
| slaughter | 1 |
| slaughter them | 1 |
| slaughtered | 1 |
| slays | 1 |
| the slain | 1 |
| then i will kill | 1 |
| then they will kill | 1 |
| then they will kill me | 1 |
| then we will kill him | 1 |
| they also killed | 1 |
| they will kill | 1 |
| they will kill me | 1 |
| to kill him | 1 |
| to kill us | 1 |
| to slay | 1 |
| to slay them | 1 |
| was she killed | 1 |
| we face death | 1 |
| we kill | 1 |
| were | 1 |
| were killed | 1 |
| when he put | 1 |
| who have killed | 1 |
| who put | 1 |
| will kill | 1 |
| will kill him | 1 |
| will slay them | 1 |
| would you destroy | 1 |
| you are also to kill | 1 |
| you have killed | 1 |
| you have slain him | 1 |
| you have slain them | 1 |
| you killed | 1 |
| you must kill | 1 |
| you must surely kill him | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and slew | 17 |
| slew | 14 |
| to slay | 8 |
| slay | 7 |
| and they slew | 5 |
| and he shall slay | 3 |
| and slain | 3 |
| they slew | 3 |
| to kill | 3 |
| had slain | 2 |
| have slain | 2 |
| he shall slay | 2 |
| kill | 2 |
| shall slay | 2 |
| who slew | 2 |
| whom he slew | 2 |
| wilt thou slay | 2 |
| all of them and i will slay | 1 |
| among them which slew | 1 |
| and also hast slain | 1 |
| and hast slain | 1 |
| and have slain | 1 |
| and he slew | 1 |
| and i will kill | 1 |
| and it shall slay | 1 |
| and kill | 1 |
| and killed | 1 |
| and slay | 1 |
| and slew him | 1 |
| and they shall kill | 1 |
| and they will kill | 1 |
| and they will slay me | 1 |
| and withal how he had slain | 1 |
| and ye have slain | 1 |
| and ye shall slay | 1 |
| be put | 1 |
| be slain | 1 |
| because of murderers | 1 |
| behold i will slay | 1 |
| but thou shalt surely | 1 |
| doth he murder | 1 |
| for i have slain | 1 |
| for now would i kill | 1 |
| have been slain | 1 |
| have i slain | 1 |
| he destroyed | 1 |
| he slew | 1 |
| he will kill | 1 |
| her slain | 1 |
| him in the killing | 1 |
| him that slayeth | 1 |
| himself and slew | 1 |
| i have slain | 1 |
| i would not slay | 1 |
| if we slay | 1 |
| in slaying | 1 |
| is he slain | 1 |
| is made | 1 |
| killeth | 1 |
| me as thou killedst | 1 |
| me i pray thee out of hand | 1 |
| now therefore and let us slay | 1 |
| now therefore kill | 1 |
| of him and slew | 1 |
| of slaying | 1 |
| of the slayer | 1 |
| of them that are slain | 1 |
| of those that are slain | 1 |
| of those that were slain | 1 |
| shall be slain | 1 |
| shall slay me | 1 |
| should kill | 1 |
| slain | 1 |
| slaying | 1 |
| surely now also i had slain | 1 |
| than he and slew | 1 |
| that they slew | 1 |
| thee he shall slay | 1 |
| them and slay | 1 |
| them out to slay | 1 |
| then will i slay | 1 |
| thereof and will slay | 1 |
| thereto thou shalt kill | 1 |
| they shall slay | 1 |
| they slay | 1 |
| thou hast slain | 1 |
| thou killedst | 1 |
| thou to kill | 1 |
| thus with me kill | 1 |
| to be slain | 1 |
| to have slain | 1 |
| to him but slew | 1 |
| to him that he slew | 1 |
| to the murderer | 1 |
| under the slain | 1 |
| upon them and slew | 1 |
| upon these slain | 1 |
| us thou hast slain | 1 |
| we shall kill | 1 |
| when he slew | 1 |
| which slew | 1 |
| whom ye slew | 1 |
| whosoever hath killed | 1 |
| whosoever slayeth | 1 |
| yea for thy sake are we killed | 1 |
Page 3 of 4. 158 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Later, I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his house. He said: “Let us meet at the house of God inside the temple. Let us shut the temple doors because they are coming to kill you—by night they are coming to kill you!”
Read word by wordBut they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
Read word by wordAnd the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
Read word by wordFor my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”
Read word by wordBy these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.
Read word by wordIn the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,
Read word by wordThey killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
Read word by wordOn that day the number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king,
Read word by wordwho said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Haman’s ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given to you. And what further do you request? It will be fulfilled.”
Read word by wordOn the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
Read word by wordThe rest of the Jews in the royal provinces also assembled to defend themselves and rid themselves of their enemies. They killed 75,000 who hated them, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
Read word by wordFor resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
Read word by wordHe will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
Read word by wordHe lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
Read word by wordYet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 44.23
Do not kill them, or my people will forget. Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 59.12
God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.
Read word by wordWhen He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
Read word by wordHe killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
Read word by wordThey kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
Read word by wordHe struck down many nations and slaughtered mighty kings:
Read word by wordand slaughtered mighty kings—His loving devotion endures forever.
Read word by wordFor the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
Read word by wordFor she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
Read word by worda time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build,
Read word by wordNothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
Read word by wordBut you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.
Read word by wordYou will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.
Read word by wordThen the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.
Read word by wordBut look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
Read word by wordFor behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.
Read word by wordIn that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
Read word by wordHas the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?
Read word by wordFor I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”
Read word by wordI will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
Read word by wordTherefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
Read word by wordHe has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
Read word by wordLook, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Read word by wordBoth young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
Read word by wordYou have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
Read word by wordSlaughter the old men, the young men and maidens, the women and children; but do not go near anyone who has the mark. Now begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.
Read word by wordThe sword is appointed to be polished, to be grasped in the hand. It is sharpened and polished, to be placed in the hand of the slayer.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.16
They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and put her to the sword. Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgment against her.
Read word by wordThe mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.
Read word by wordand the villages on her mainland will be slain by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’
Read word by wordHe will slaughter the villages of your mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp to your walls, and raise his shields against you.
Read word by wordThe hooves of his horses will trample all your streets. He will slaughter your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.
Read word by wordThis is what the Lord GOD says to Tyre: ‘Will not the coastlands quake at the sound of your downfall, when the wounded groan at the slaughter in your midst?
Read word by wordWill you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.
Read word by wordThen He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and tell the breath that this is what the Lord GOD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, so that they may live!”
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