tevach · slaughter; meat

What it means

tevach (טֶבַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “slaughter; meat”.

Animal slaughtered for food; also slaughter, butchery.

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. The act of slaughtering, or the place where it is done.
2. A beast killed for food.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• slaughter ×10
• animal ×1
• animals ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×3

• 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.”

• Proverbs 7:22

  He goes after her suddenly, as an ox to the slaughter goes, and as one in fetters to the correction goes the fool,

• Proverbs 9:2

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

• Isaiah 34:2

  For YHWH has wrath against all the nations, and fury against all their army; he has devoted them to destruction, he has given them over to slaughter.

• Isaiah 34:6

  The sword of YHWH is full of blood, it is made fat with fat, with the blood of lambs and male goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for YHWH has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

• Isaiah 53:7

  He was mistreated, and he humbled himself, and he did not open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a ewe that before her shearers is silent, and he did not open his mouth.

• Isaiah 65:12

  I will destine you to the sword, and all of you will bow down to the slaughter; because I called, and you did not answer; I spoke, and you did not listen; and you did what was evil in my eyes, and you chose what I did not delight in.”

• Jeremiah 48:15

  Moab is devastated, and one has gone up against her cities, and the choice of his young men have gone down to the slaughter, declares the King, YHWH Tsevaot is his name.

• Jeremiah 50:27

  Slay all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter! Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.

• 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.

• Ezekiel 21:15

  so that the heart may melt and the stumbling blocks may multiply; against all their gates I have set the brandishing of the sword. Ah! It is made for lightning, honed for slaughter.

• Ezekiel 21:28

  “And you, son of man, prophesy and say: ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach. And say: A sword, a sword drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, so that it may have lightning,