tavach · slaughter

What it means

tavach (טָבַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “slaughter”.

An animal to prepare a meal; also slaughter people.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To slaughter an animal to prepare its meat.
2. To slaughter people without pity, like cattle.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• slaughter ×5
• I have butchered ×1
• She has slaughtered ×1
• butcher ×1
• slaughters it ×1
• will be slaughtered ×1
• you have slaughtered ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 43:16

  When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the one over his house, “Bring the men into the house, slaughter an animal and prepare it, for the men will eat with me at noon.”

• Exodus 22:1

  When a man steals an ox or a lamb and slaughters it or sells it, he shall repay five cattle for the ox and four sheep for the lamb.

• Deuteronomy 28:31

  Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, and you will not eat of it; your donkey will be robbed from before you, and it will not return to you; your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.

• 1 Samuel 25:11

  Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have butchered for my shearers and give it to men who I do not know where they are from?”

• Psalms 37:14

  The sword the wicked have drawn, and they have bent their bow to bring down the afflicted and the needy, to butcher the upright in their way.

• Proverbs 9:2

  She has slaughtered her animals, she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table.

• Jeremiah 11:19

  But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter, and I did not know that against me they devised schemes: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will not be remembered anymore.”

• Jeremiah 25:34

  Wail, you shepherds, and cry out, and roll in the dust, you nobles of the flock, for your days for slaughter are fulfilled, and for your scatterings, and you will fall like a precious vessel.

• Jeremiah 51:40

  I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

• Lamentations 2:21

  They lie on the ground in the streets, boy and old man; my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; you have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, you have not pitied.

• Ezekiel 21:10

  To slaughter a slaughter it is sharpened; so that it may have lightning it is polished. Or shall we rejoice? The scepter of my son despises every tree.