ketal · kill

What it means

ketal (קְטַל) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “kill”.

To kill, to put to death (Aramaic).

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 take someone's life, or to lose it violently (Aramaic).

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• was killed ×2
• be killed ×1
• he killed ×1
• kill ×1
• killed them ×1
• were being killed ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Daniel 2:13

  And the law went out, and the wise men were being killed; and they sought Daniel and his companions to be killed.

• Daniel 2:14

  Then Daniel replied with counsel and prudence to Arioch, the chief of the guard of the king, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon.

• Daniel 3:22

  Because of this, because the king’s word was harsh and the furnace was heated exceedingly, those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, the flame of the fire killed them.

• Daniel 5:19

  and because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages were trembling and fearing before him; whom he wished he killed, and whom he wished he kept alive, and whom he wished he raised up, and whom he wished he brought low.

• Daniel 5:30

  In that very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.

• Daniel 7:11

  I was looking then because of the sound of the great words that the horn was speaking; I was looking until the beast was killed, and its body destroyed and given to the burning of fire.

And 1 more times.