זָבַח (za.vach) means “to sacrifice” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: zaw-bakh' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
זָבַח · za.vach · to sacrifice
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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a primitive root; to slaughter an animal (usually in sacrifice)
KJV glosses: kill, offer, (do) sacrifice, slay.
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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 |
|---|---|
| and sacrifice | 8 |
| sacrificed | 8 |
| to sacrifice | 8 |
| sacrifice | 7 |
| they sacrificed | 7 |
| and sacrificed | 6 |
| sacrificing | 6 |
| offered | 5 |
| offer | 4 |
| they offered | 3 |
| to offer | 3 |
| you sacrifice | 3 |
| and he sacrificed | 2 |
| he sacrificed | 2 |
| i will offer | 2 |
| i will sacrifice | 2 |
| am preparing | 1 |
| and butcher | 1 |
| and have been sacrificing | 1 |
| and he has sacrificed | 1 |
| and made | 1 |
| and offer | 1 |
| and offer sacrifices | 1 |
| and offer sacrifices to him | 1 |
| and offered sacrifices | 1 |
| and slaughtered them | 1 |
| and they offered | 1 |
| and they sacrificed | 1 |
| and to sacrifice | 1 |
| but sacrifices | 1 |
| do they sacrifice | 1 |
| for sacrifice | 1 |
| for the one who sacrifices | 1 |
| have been offering | 1 |
| he offered | 1 |
| he offered sacrifices | 1 |
| he sacrifices | 1 |
| he slaughtered | 1 |
| he who sacrifices | 1 |
| he will sacrifice | 1 |
| i am preparing | 1 |
| if anyone sacrifices | 1 |
| in order to sacrifice them | 1 |
| let them offer | 1 |
| of those who had sacrificed | 1 |
| offer it | 1 |
| offered as | 1 |
| slaughtered it | 1 |
| so that we may sacrifice | 1 |
| that they may sacrifice | 1 |
| the sacrifices we offer | 1 |
| then you may slaughter | 1 |
| they have sacrificed | 1 |
| they offer human sacrifice | 1 |
| they sacrifice | 1 |
| they will offer | 1 |
| though they offer | 1 |
| to make | 1 |
| to present his sacrifice | 1 |
| we offer sacrifices | 1 |
| were still sacrificing | 1 |
| while absalom was offering | 1 |
| who offer | 1 |
| who sacrifice | 1 |
| who was sacrificing | 1 |
| whoever sacrifices | 1 |
| will sacrifice | 1 |
| will they offer sacrifices | 1 |
| you are to offer | 1 |
| you are to sacrifice | 1 |
| you may slaughter | 1 |
| you shall offer it | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| to sacrifice | 9 |
| offered | 8 |
| and sacrificed | 5 |
| sacrificed | 5 |
| offer | 3 |
| they sacrifice | 3 |
| to offer | 3 |
| and offered | 2 |
| and sacrifice | 2 |
| and they offered | 2 |
| and they sacrificed | 2 |
| did sacrifice | 2 |
| he sacrificed | 2 |
| he that sacrificeth | 2 |
| sacrifice | 2 |
| sacrificing | 2 |
| they sacrificed | 2 |
| thou shalt not sacrifice | 2 |
| and all they that sacrifice | 1 |
| and do sacrifice | 1 |
| and hath slain | 1 |
| and he hath slain | 1 |
| and he sacrificed | 1 |
| and he slew | 1 |
| and if ye offer | 1 |
| and killed | 1 |
| and let them sacrifice | 1 |
| and offer | 1 |
| and sacrificeth | 1 |
| and slew | 1 |
| and there they sacrificed | 1 |
| and they sacrifice | 1 |
| and they shall no more offer | 1 |
| and thou shalt offer | 1 |
| and to him shall ye do sacrifice | 1 |
| and to sacrifice | 1 |
| and upon thee shall he offer | 1 |
| and we do sacrifice | 1 |
| and when ye will offer | 1 |
| but i will sacrifice | 1 |
| do sacrifice | 1 |
| for he sacrificed | 1 |
| for sacrifice | 1 |
| for to offer | 1 |
| from thee then thou shalt kill | 1 |
| from them that offer | 1 |
| i will offer | 1 |
| in there thou shalt sacrifice | 1 |
| it and have sacrificed | 1 |
| killed | 1 |
| lo shall we sacrifice | 1 |
| me therefore will i offer | 1 |
| not sacrifice | 1 |
| notwithstanding thou mayest kill | 1 |
| of them that had sacrificed | 1 |
| offering | 1 |
| only he sacrificed | 1 |
| sacrificeth | 1 |
| slew | 1 |
| still sacrificed | 1 |
| that i do sacrifice | 1 |
| that sacrifice | 1 |
| that sacrificed | 1 |
| that sacrificeth | 1 |
| that they may do sacrifice | 1 |
| that they offered | 1 |
| that we may sacrifice | 1 |
| that ye may sacrifice | 1 |
| them nor sacrifice | 1 |
| themselves will they sacrifice | 1 |
| then he sacrificed | 1 |
| there they shall offer | 1 |
| therefore i sacrifice | 1 |
| therefore they sacrifice | 1 |
| they offered | 1 |
| thou shalt not offer | 1 |
| thou shalt therefore sacrifice | 1 |
| to him that sacrificeth | 1 |
| unto me and shalt sacrifice | 1 |
| unto me and these hast thou sacrificed | 1 |
| we shall sacrifice | 1 |
| which he offered | 1 |
| which i have sacrificed | 1 |
| which they offer | 1 |
| which thou sacrificedst | 1 |
| while he offered | 1 |
| whom they sacrificed | 1 |
| whoso offereth | 1 |
| will i sacrifice | 1 |
| with him offered | 1 |
| ye kill | 1 |
| ye sacrifice | 1 |
| ye shall offer | 1 |
| yea they sacrificed | 1 |
Page 1 of 3. 127 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Then 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.
Read word by wordSo Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
Read word by wordThe 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.’
Read word by word“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.”
Read word by wordBut 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.’
Read word by word“You are slackers!” Pharaoh replied. “Slackers! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’
Read word by wordPharaoh 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.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 8.4
Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within this land.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 8.21
But 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?
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 8.22
We must make a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He commands us.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 8.23
Pharaoh 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.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 8.24
“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.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 8.25
And 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.’
Read word by wordYou 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.
Read word by wordIf anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 22.19
You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.
Read word by wordThen he sent out some young men of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD.
Read word by wordHow 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.’”
Read word by wordDo 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.
Read word by wordan 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.’”
Read word by wordFor 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.
Read word by wordThey 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.’
Read word by wordWhen you sacrifice a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance.
Read word by wordWhen you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, offer it so that it may be acceptable on your behalf.
Read word by wordBalak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and he gave portions to Balaam and the princes who were with him.
Read word by wordBut 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,
Read word by wordIf 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.
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordYou 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.
Read word by wordNo 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.
Read word by wordYou are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.
Read word by wordYou 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.
Read word by wordYou 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.
Read word by wordThis 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.
Read word by wordThere you are to sacrifice your peace offerings, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the LORD your God.
Read word by wordThey sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.
Read word by wordThey 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.”
Read word by wordjust 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.
Read word by wordSo they called that place Bochim and offered sacrifices there to the LORD.
Read word by wordNow 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.”
Read word by wordYear 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.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordThen Elkanah and all his house went up to make the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow,
Read word by wordor 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 boiling
Read word by wordEven 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.”
Read word by wordEach 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.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordAnd 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.”
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by wordSaul 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.”
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