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זֶבַח

zevach · sacrifice

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2077 · appears 162 times in the Bible

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What it means

zevach (זֶבַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sacrifice”.

An animal offered to God; part of its meat was eaten in a shared meal.

How to say it

ze·vach

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. An animal offered to God and eaten together.
  2. A sacrifice to other gods.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Sacrifice: an animal slaughtered and offered, part of which was eaten in a meal. BDB: a sacrifice (the victim or the act). It comes from זָבַח, “to sacrifice”.

Historical and cultural background

Leviticus 3 and 7 describe the sacrifice of peace: the fat is burned on the altar, the breast and the right thigh go to the priests, and the meat is eaten the same day or, if it is a vow or a freewill offering, also “on the next day” (Leviticus 7:15-16, 31-34).

How we translate it

“Sacrifice” 105 times, “sacrifices” 57. זֶבַח שְׁלָמִים is translated “sacrifice of peace”, following this edition's glossary. It is distinguished from עֹלָה, “burnt offering”, which was burned whole, and from מִנְחָה, “offering” or “grain offering”.

How it is translated

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

  • sacrifice ×105
  • sacrifices ×57

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Where it appears

  • Genesis 31:54

    Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his brothers to eat bread; they ate bread and spent the night on the mountain.

  • Genesis 46:1

    Israel set out with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the Elohim of his father Isaac.

  • Exodus 10:25

    But Moses said, “You must also put into our hands sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may offer them to YHWH our Elohim.

  • Exodus 12:27

    you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Passover to YHWH, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when he struck Egypt and delivered our houses.’ ” And the people bowed their heads and bowed down.

  • Exodus 18:12

    Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for Elohim; and Aaron came, with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before Elohim.

  • Exodus 23:18

    You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, and the fat of my feast shall not remain until morning.

  • Exodus 24:5

    He sent young men of the sons of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as sacrifices of peace to YHWH.

  • Exodus 29:28

    It shall be for Aaron and for his sons as a statute forever from the sons of Israel, for it is a contribution; and it shall be a contribution from the sons of Israel from their sacrifices of peace, their contribution to YHWH.

  • Exodus 34:15

    Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they prostitute themselves after their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, and you eat of his sacrifice,

  • Exodus 34:25

    You shall not slaughter the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, and the sacrifice of the Feast of Passover shall not remain overnight until the morning.

  • Leviticus 3:1

    And if his offering is a sacrifice of peace, if he presents it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall present it without defect before YHWH.

  • Leviticus 3:3

    From the sacrifice of peace he shall present as a fire offering to YHWH the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,

  • Leviticus 3:6

    And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace to YHWH is from the flock, male or female, he shall present it without defect.

  • Leviticus 3:9

    From the sacrifice of peace he shall present as a fire offering to YHWH its fat: the whole fat tail, which he shall remove close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,

  • Leviticus 4:10

    just as it is taken off from the ox of the sacrifice of peace; and the priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar of burnt offering.

  • Leviticus 4:26

    All its fat he shall offer up in smoke on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace. So the priest shall make expiation for him for his sin, and he will be forgiven.

  • Leviticus 4:31

    All its fat he shall remove, just as the fat is removed from the sacrifice of peace, and the priest shall offer it up in smoke on the altar for a pleasing aroma to YHWH. So the priest shall make expiation for him, and he will be forgiven.

  • Leviticus 4:35

    All its fat he shall remove, just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace, and the priest shall offer up in smoke them on the altar, on top of the fire offerings of YHWH. So the priest shall make expiation for him for his sin that he has committed, and he will be forgiven.

  • Leviticus 7:11

    This is the instruction for the sacrifice of peace that one presents to YHWH.

  • Leviticus 7:12

    If he presents it for thanksgiving, then he shall present, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and fine flour well mixed, cakes mixed with oil.

  • Leviticus 7:13

    With cakes of leavened bread he shall present his offering with his sacrifice of peace for thanksgiving.

  • Leviticus 7:15

    The flesh of his sacrifice of peace for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall not leave any of it until morning.

  • Leviticus 7:16

    But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and on the next day what is left of it may be eaten.

  • Leviticus 7:17

    What is left of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.

  • Leviticus 7:18

    And if any of the flesh of his sacrifice of peace is ever eaten on the third day, it shall not be accepted; for the one who presents it, it shall not be credited to him; it shall be a repulsive thing, and the person who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.

  • Leviticus 7:20

    But the person who eats flesh from the sacrifice of peace that belongs to YHWH while his uncleanness is on him, that person shall be cut off from his people.

  • Leviticus 7:21

    And when a person touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness or an unclean beast or any unclean detestable thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace that belongs to YHWH, that person shall be cut off from his people.”

  • Leviticus 7:29

    “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: The one who presents his sacrifice of peace to YHWH shall bring his offering to YHWH from his sacrifice of peace.

  • Leviticus 7:32

    And the right thigh you shall give as a contribution to the priest from your sacrifices of peace.

  • Leviticus 7:34

    For the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution I have taken from the sons of Israel, from their sacrifices of peace, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as a statute forever from the sons of Israel.

  • Leviticus 7:37

    This is the instruction for the burnt offering, for the grain offering, for the sin offering, for the guilt offering, for the ordination, and for the sacrifice of peace,

  • Leviticus 9:18

    He slaughtered the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace that was for the people, and the sons of Aaron handed the blood to him, and he splashed it against the altar all around,

  • Leviticus 10:14

    The breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you; for they have been given as your portion and the portion of your sons from the sacrifices of peace of the sons of Israel.

  • Leviticus 17:5

    This is so that the sons of Israel bring their sacrifices that they are sacrificing in the open field, that they bring them to YHWH, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace to YHWH.

  • Leviticus 17:7

    So they shall no longer sacrifice their sacrifices to the goats after which they prostitute themselves. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.

  • Leviticus 17:8

    And you shall say to them: Any man of the house of Israel or of the resident aliens who reside among them, who offers up a burnt offering or a sacrifice,

  • Leviticus 19:5

    And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of peace to YHWH, you shall sacrifice it so that you are accepted.

  • Leviticus 19:6

    It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it and on the next day, and what is left until the third day shall be burned in the fire.

  • Leviticus 22:21

    And when a man presents a sacrifice of peace to YHWH to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, from the herd or from the flock, it shall be without defect to be accepted; no defect shall be in it.

  • Leviticus 22:29

    And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to YHWH, you shall sacrifice it so that you are accepted.

And 122 more times.