הֶ֫רֶג
slaughter
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 4 times (80%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 1 time (20%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 5 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2027 appears — 5 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Esther 1 verse
Proverbs 1 verse
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 27:7 כְּ/הֶ֥רֶג prep + n c ms cs Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by them?
- Isaiah 30:25 הֶ֣רֶג n c ms There shall be on every lofty mountain, and on every high hill, brooks [and] streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
Ezekiel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“slaughter” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun הרג (hereg). The Hebrew Bible uses it only 5 verses. It concentrates in Isaiah, which alone accounts for 40% of its uses. First canonically at Esther 9:5, it enters the text early. From the same root come הרג and הרגה. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2027 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 60%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 40%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Slaughter 3×
- American Standard Version: Slaughter 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Slaughter 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Slaughter 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2027 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2027 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2027 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2027 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a killing, slaughter
Word origin
n.m. Is 30:25 slaughter—ה׳ abs. Pr 24:11 + 2 times + Ez 26:15 (𝔊 Co חֶרֶב); cstr. Is 27:7—of Jews’ slaughter of their enemies Est 9:5 (‖ אַבְדָֿ֑ן); מָטִים לַהֶרֶג Pr 24:11 (‖ לְקֻחִים לַמָּ֑וֶת); כְּהֶרֶג הֲרוּגָיו הֹרָ֑ג Is 27:7; ביום הֶרֶג רַב Is 30:25 (cf. ביום חֲבשׁ י׳ אֶת־שֶׁבֶר עַמּוֹ v 26). Ez 26:15 read with 𝔊 Co supr.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from הרג (hârag) (H2026) — to kill.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
הָרַג
- (b. h.) [to cut, v. הֶרֶג,] to kill, put to death. Num. R. s. 21, beg. בא לַהֲרָגְךָ השכם להָרְגֹּו if one comes to kill thee, be the first to kill him; Ber. 58ᵃ; Snh. 72ᵃ להוֹרְגְּךָ … להוֹרְגוֹ. Gitt. 56ᵇ כסבור ה׳ את עצמו he (Titus) thought he had killed himself (euphem. for the Lord); a. v. fr.—Part. pass. הָרוּג. Tosef. Gitt. V (III), 1 הֲרוּגִין שנהרגו לפני מלחמה ובשעת מלחמה (ed. Zuck. בשעת) those executed (by the Roman government) before and during the Vespasian war; Y. Gitt. V, 47ᵇ top [read:] הֲרוּגֵי המלחמה ולפני וכ׳. Y. Ber. I, 3ᵈ, v. בִּיתֵּר. Pes. 50ᵃ; B. Bath. 10ᵇ, a. e. הרוגי מלכות martyrs under the Roman government (R. Akiba and his fellow-martyrs), v. לוּד; a. fr.
- to be killed, executed. Taan. 18ᵇ נֶהֶרְגוּ were put to death (by the Roman government). Gitt. 56ᵃ יֵהָרֵג is to be put to death. Snh. 74ᵃ עבור ואל תֵּהָרֵג transgress or thou wilt be killed; a. fr.
הָרָג
- (preced.) murderer, highway-man, contrad. to חרם the oppressor who does not threaten to kill. Y. B. Mets. IV, end, 9ᵈ.—Pl. הָרָגִין. Ned. III, 4, v. נָדַר.
הֶרֶג
- preced. wds.) execution by decapitation with a sword. Snh. VII, 1; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H2027 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הֶ֣רֶג | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 30:25 | 1 |
| הֶ֨רֶג֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 26:15 | 1 |
| וְ/הֶ֖רֶג | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Esther 9:5 | 1 |
| כְּ/הֶ֥רֶג | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 27:7 | 1 |
| לַ֝/הֶ֗רֶג | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 24:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2027, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Derived from this word
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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