קָטַל
katal · slay
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6991 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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katal (קָטַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “slay”.
To kill, to put to death. A rare verb in Hebrew.
How to say it
ka·tal
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
- To take someone's life.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- he kills ×1
- though he slays me ×1
- you would slay ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 13:15
Look, though he slays me, for him I will wait; yet my ways to his face I will argue.
- Job 24:14
With the light the murderer rises; he kills the poor and the needy, and in the night he is like the thief.
- Psalms 139:19
If only you would slay, Eloah, the wicked; and men of blood, depart from me,