טֶ֫בַח
slaughter
also: slaughtering, animal fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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.
Every verse where H2874 appears in the Book of Isaiah — 4 distinct verses. 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.
Isaiah
- Isaiah 34:2 לַ/טָּֽבַח prep det + n c ms For Yahweh has indignation against all the nations, and wrath against all their host: he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter.
- Isaiah 34:6 וְ/טֶ֥בַח conj + n c ms The sword of Yahweh is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
- Isaiah 53:7 לַ/טֶּ֣בַח prep det + n c ms He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth.
- Isaiah 65:12 לַ/טֶּ֣בַח prep det + n c ms I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight.
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.
טבח (ṭebach) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “slaughter.” It first appears in Genesis 43:16. Spanning 12 verses in 5 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Isaiah dominates its distribution — 4 of 12 verses. It also covers “slaughtering” and “animal”, alongside “slaughter” — see its full sense range. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2874 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 →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,101
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 12 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 12 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 9 verses · 75%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 17%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 8%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Slaughter 9×
- American Standard Version†: Slaughter 8×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Slaughter 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Slaughter 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2874 across 11† 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2874 across 11† 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2874 across 12† 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 H2874 across 11† 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.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
טבח I
- 1. slaughtering, slaughter, of animals for food; as acc. cogn. after טָבַח (q.v.) Gn 43:16 (J), Pr 9:2; כַּשֶּׂה לַטּ׳ יוּבָ֑ל Is 53:7, sim. of suffering servant of י׳; also Pr 7:22 sim. of fatuousness of one following a strange woman, thoughtless of consequences; יֵרְדוּ לַטּ׳ Je 50:27 metaph. of Babylonian leaders, under fig. of bullocks; so prob. 48:15, and perhaps לַטּ׳ תִּכְרָ֑עוּ Is 65:12. e.g. Genesis 43:16
- 2. in poet. fig. slaughter, to which the nations are given over by י׳ Is 34:2, specif. of Edom v 6 (‖ זֶבַח; v. ז׳ 6, p. 258a); of Isr. Ez 21:20, as acc. cogn. after טָבַח v 15; of Ammon v 33. e.g. Isaiah 34:2
טבח II m. son of Nahor by his concubine Gn 22
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.m. Is 34:6 slaughtering, slaughter—abs. ט׳ Gn 43:16 + 6 times; טָ֑בַח Ez 21:20 + 3 times; sf. טִבְחָהּ Pr 9:2;—
II. n.pr.m. son of Nahor by his concubine Gn 22:24, 𝔊 Ταβεκ(χ).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from טבח (ṭâbach) (H2873) — to slaughter.
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.
טָבַח
- , (b. h.) to prepare a feast, esp. to slaughter and dress meat, to cook. Keth. 4ᵃ טִבְחוֹ טָבוּחַ his meat for the feast is ready (for cooking).—Bets. 25ᵃ (expl. בית טביחה) מקום שטוֹבַחַת וכ׳ the place where the animal cooks (digests) its food.
טְבַח
- Ber. 56ᵃ טַבְחַת ולא אכלת thou shalt prepare and not eat. Sabb. 129ᵇ הוה ט׳ להו וכ׳ it (the wind or demon טָבוֹחַ) would have feasted on them (the Israelites), on their flesh and their blood; a. e.—V. מַטְבְּחַיָּיא
- same. Gen. R. s. 57, end טבח טַבְּחוֹן Tabaḥ (Gen. XXII, 24) means, ‘Slaughter them’ v. גַּחֲמוֹן e.g. Genesis 22:24
טֶבַח
- preced. wds.)
- 1. the meat for a feast. Keth. 4ᵃ, v. טָבַח.
- 2. feast, trnsf. onslaught. Gen. R. s. 83 (ref. to Is. XXXIV, 6) אעפ"כ ט׳ גדול וכ׳ nevertheless the main onslaught will be in the land of Edom (Rome); Pesik. R. s. 14, end; s. 15; Yalk. Num. 759. e.g. Isaiah 34:6
טַבָּח
- (preced.) meat-dresser, butcher, cook. Bets. 28ᵃ ט׳ אומן a professional butcher; a. fr.—Pl. טַבָּחִים. Kidd. IV, 14; a. e.
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 9 distinct written forms H2874 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| טֶ֨בַח֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 21:10 | 2 |
| לַ/טֶּ֣בַח | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 53:7 | 2 |
| לַ/טָּ֑בַח | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 48:15 | 2 |
| וְ/טֶ֥בַח | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 34:6 | 1 |
| טִ֭בְחָ/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Proverbs 9:2 | 1 |
| טָ֣בַח | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 7:22 | 1 |
| לְ/טֶ֣בַח | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 21:28 | 1 |
| לְ/טָֽבַח | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 21:15 | 1 |
| לַ/טָּֽבַח | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 34:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2874, 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
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 11 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 12 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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