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Strong's H2026 הָרַג (harag)

Harag means “destroy” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G2026 — epoikodomeo in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H2026
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 158
Books 27

Strong's H2026 Quick Answer

Strong's H2026 הָרַג (harag) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. harag (haw-rag') v. 1. to smite with deadly intent [a primitive root] It has 158 linked Bible usages across 27 books. Visible English usage signals include hand, kill, out, they, and killed. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
harag (haw-rag') v. 1. to smite with deadly intent [a primitive root]
Usage
158 linked usages
Books
27 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
hand, kill, out, they, and killed

Meaning and Definition

harag (haw-rag') v. 1. to smite with deadly intent [a primitive root] KJV: destroy, out of hand, kill, murder(-er), put to (death), make (slaughter), slay(-er), X surely.

Original Word
הָרַג
Transliteration
harag
Derivation
Root: הרג
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2026. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to kill

Usage: 1) to kill, slay, murder, destroy, murderer, slayer, out of hand 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to kill, slay 1a2) to destroy, ruin 1b) (Niphal) to be killed 1c) (Pual) to be killed, be slain

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How Strong's H2026 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render harag, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

hand Exodus 5:21 10× kill Genesis 4:15 out Exodus 32:12 killed Numbers 31:19 they Genesis 12:12 destroyed Esther 7:4 destroy 2 Samuel 14:7 hands 2 Samuel 4:12 murder Psalms 10:8 put Leviticus 20:15 have Genesis 4:23 killeth Job 5:2 killing Judges 9:24 let Genesis 37:20 me Genesis 4:14 should Genesis 26:7

How Strong's H2026 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 158 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H2026 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H2026 in the Old Testament

158 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 4:8 KJV

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

Genesis 4:14 KJV

Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

Genesis 4:15 KJV

And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2026.

Genesis 4:8 Old Testament, KJV
And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Genesis 4:14 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Genesis 4:15 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
Genesis 4:23 Old Testament, KJV
And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
Genesis 4:25 Old Testament, KJV
And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
Genesis 12:12 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
Genesis 20:4 Old Testament, KJV
But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
Genesis 20:11 Old Testament, KJV
And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
Genesis 26:7 Old Testament, KJV
And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
Genesis 27:41 Old Testament, KJV
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
Genesis 27:42 Old Testament, KJV
And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.
Genesis 34:25 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
Genesis 34:26 Old Testament, KJV
And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.
Genesis 37:20 Old Testament, KJV
Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
Genesis 37:26 Old Testament, KJV
And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
Genesis 49:6 Old Testament, KJV
O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
Exodus 2:14 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
Exodus 2:15 Old Testament, KJV
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
Exodus 4:23 Old Testament, KJV
And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.
Exodus 5:21 Old Testament, KJV
And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
Exodus 13:15 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
Exodus 21:14 Old Testament, KJV
But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
Exodus 22:24 Old Testament, KJV
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Exodus 23:7 Old Testament, KJV
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
Exodus 32:12 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
Exodus 32:27 Old Testament, KJV
And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
Leviticus 20:15 Old Testament, KJV
And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.
Leviticus 20:16 Old Testament, KJV
And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Numbers 11:15 Old Testament, KJV
And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
Numbers 22:29 Old Testament, KJV
And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.
Numbers 22:33 Old Testament, KJV
And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.
Numbers 25:5 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
Numbers 31:7 Old Testament, KJV
And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
Numbers 31:8 Old Testament, KJV
And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
Numbers 31:17 Old Testament, KJV
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
Numbers 31:19 Old Testament, KJV
And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
Deuteronomy 13:9 Old Testament, KJV
But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
Joshua 8:24 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
Joshua 9:26 Old Testament, KJV
And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
Joshua 10:11 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
Joshua 13:22 Old Testament, KJV
Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.
Judges 7:25 Old Testament, KJV
And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.
Judges 8:17 Old Testament, KJV
And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.
Judges 8:18 Old Testament, KJV
Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.
Judges 8:19 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.
Judges 8:20 Old Testament, KJV
And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them. But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet a youth.
Judges 8:21 Old Testament, KJV
Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels' necks.
Judges 9:5 Old Testament, KJV
And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
Judges 9:18 Old Testament, KJV
And ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)
Judges 9:24 Old Testament, KJV
That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
Judges 9:45 Old Testament, KJV
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
Judges 9:54 Old Testament, KJV
Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A women slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
Judges 9:56 Old Testament, KJV
Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:
Judges 16:2 Old Testament, KJV
And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.
Judges 20:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
1 Samuel 16:2 Old Testament, KJV
And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD.
1 Samuel 22:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the LORD's priests.
1 Samuel 24:10 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD's anointed.
1 Samuel 24:11 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
1 Samuel 24:18 Old Testament, KJV
And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.
2 Samuel 3:30 Old Testament, KJV
So Joab, and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
2 Samuel 4:10 Old Testament, KJV
When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:
2 Samuel 4:11 Old Testament, KJV
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
2 Samuel 4:12 Old Testament, KJV
And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
2 Samuel 10:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.
2 Samuel 12:9 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
2 Samuel 14:7 Old Testament, KJV
And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
2 Samuel 23:21 Old Testament, KJV
And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
1 Kings 2:5 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
1 Kings 2:32 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
1 Kings 9:16 Old Testament, KJV
For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.
1 Kings 11:24 Old Testament, KJV
And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
1 Kings 12:27 Old Testament, KJV
If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
1 Kings 18:12 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.
1 Kings 18:13 Old Testament, KJV
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
1 Kings 18:14 Old Testament, KJV
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.
1 Kings 19:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
1 Kings 19:10 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
1 Kings 19:14 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
2 Kings 8:12 Old Testament, KJV
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
2 Kings 9:31 Old Testament, KJV
And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?
2 Kings 10:9 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?
2 Kings 11:18 Old Testament, KJV
And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
2 Kings 17:25 Old Testament, KJV
And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them.
1 Chronicles 7:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.
1 Chronicles 11:23 Old Testament, KJV
And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
1 Chronicles 19:18 Old Testament, KJV
But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.
2 Chronicles 21:4 Old Testament, KJV
Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel.
2 Chronicles 21:13 Old Testament, KJV
But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself:
2 Chronicles 22:1 Old Testament, KJV
And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
2 Chronicles 22:8 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.
2 Chronicles 23:17 Old Testament, KJV
Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
2 Chronicles 24:22 Old Testament, KJV
Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
2 Chronicles 24:25 Old Testament, KJV
And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
2 Chronicles 25:3 Old Testament, KJV
Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
2 Chronicles 28:6 Old Testament, KJV
For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 28:7 Old Testament, KJV
And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.
2 Chronicles 28:9 Old Testament, KJV
But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.
2 Chronicles 36:17 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
Nehemiah 4:11 Old Testament, KJV
And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.
Nehemiah 6:10 Old Testament, KJV
Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.
Nehemiah 9:26 Old Testament, KJV
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Esther 3:13 Old Testament, KJV
And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
Esther 7:4 Old Testament, KJV
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Esther 8:11 Old Testament, KJV
Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
Esther 9:6 Old Testament, KJV
And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
Esther 9:10 Old Testament, KJV
The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
Esther 9:11 Old Testament, KJV
On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
Esther 9:12 Old Testament, KJV
And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.
Esther 9:15 Old Testament, KJV
For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
Esther 9:16 Old Testament, KJV
But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,
Job 5:2 Old Testament, KJV
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Job 20:16 Old Testament, KJV
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
Psalms 10:8 Old Testament, KJV
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
Psalms 44:22 Old Testament, KJV
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Psalms 59:11 Old Testament, KJV
Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Psalms 78:31 Old Testament, KJV
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
Psalms 78:34 Old Testament, KJV
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
Psalms 78:47 Old Testament, KJV
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
Psalms 94:6 Old Testament, KJV
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2026, grouped by book.

Genesis 16 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 10 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 2 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 8 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
Joshua 4 usages, Old Testament
Judges 14 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 5 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 8 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 11 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 5 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 12 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Esther 9 usages, Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 9 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 8 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 4 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 10 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Old Testament
Amos 4 usages, Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H2026 FAQ

What does harag (הָרַג) mean?

Harag (Strong's H2026) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "destroy". harag (haw-rag') v. 1. to smite with deadly intent [a primitive root]

How many times is harag (הָרַג) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 158 linked usages for Strong's H2026 across 27 books.

Where can I study harag (הָרַג) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2026 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate harag (הָרַג)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hand, kill, out, they, killed, and destroyed. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.