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Strong's H7819 שָׁחַט (shachat)

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

Strong's Number H7819
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 70
Books 14

Strong's H7819 Quick Answer

Strong's H7819 שָׁחַט (shachat) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shachat (shaw-khat') n-f. 1. to slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre) [a primitive root] It has 70 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include kill, killed, offering, sacrifice, and slay. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
shachat (shaw-khat') n-f. 1. to slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre) [a primitive root]
Usage
70 linked usages
Books
14 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
kill, killed, offering, sacrifice, and slay

Meaning and Definition

shachat (shaw-khat') n-f. 1. to slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre) [a primitive root] KJV: kill, offer, shoot out, slay, slaughter.

Original Word
שָׁחַט
Transliteration
shachat
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H7819. 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 slaughter

Usage: v 1) to kill, slaughter, beat 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to slaughter 1a1a) beast for food 1a1b) sacrifice 1a1c) person in human sacrifice 1a1d) beaten, hammered (of shekels) 1b) (Niphal) to be slaughtered, be slain (of food or sacrifice) Also means: sha.chat (שָׁחוּט "beaten" H7820)

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How Strong's H7819 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render shachat, 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.

kill Exodus 12:6 21× killed Leviticus 4:15 11× offering Leviticus 4:29 sacrifice Exodus 34:25 slay Exodus 29:16 killeth Leviticus 17:3 out 2 Kings 25:7 killing Isaiah 22:13 slaughter Hosea 5:2 slaying Isaiah 57:5 they Genesis 37:31

How Strong's H7819 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 70 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H7819 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 H7819 in the Old Testament

70 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 22:10 KJV

And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

Genesis 37:31 KJV

And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;

Exodus 12:6 KJV

And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

Usage Excerpts

First 70 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7819.

Genesis 22:10 Old Testament, KJV
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Genesis 37:31 Old Testament, KJV
And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
Exodus 12:6 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
Exodus 12:21 Old Testament, KJV
Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
Exodus 29:11 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Exodus 29:16 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
Exodus 29:20 Old Testament, KJV
Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
Exodus 34:25 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
Leviticus 1:5 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus 1:11 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar.
Leviticus 3:2 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
Leviticus 3:8 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar.
Leviticus 3:13 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.
Leviticus 4:4 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD.
Leviticus 4:15 Old Testament, KJV
And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed before the LORD.
Leviticus 4:24 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it is a sin offering.
Leviticus 4:29 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
Leviticus 4:33 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.
Leviticus 6:25 Old Testament, KJV
Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy.
Leviticus 7:2 Old Testament, KJV
In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.
Leviticus 8:15 Old Testament, KJV
And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.
Leviticus 8:19 Old Testament, KJV
And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
Leviticus 8:23 Old Testament, KJV
And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
Leviticus 9:8 Old Testament, KJV
Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
Leviticus 9:12 Old Testament, KJV
And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar.
Leviticus 9:15 Old Testament, KJV
And he brought the people's offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.
Leviticus 9:18 Old Testament, KJV
He slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about,
Leviticus 14:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
Leviticus 14:6 Old Testament, KJV
As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
Leviticus 14:13 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:
Leviticus 14:19 Old Testament, KJV
And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:
Leviticus 14:25 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
Leviticus 14:50 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:
Leviticus 14:51 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:
Leviticus 16:11 Old Testament, KJV
And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself:
Leviticus 16:15 Old Testament, KJV
Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
Leviticus 17:3 Old Testament, KJV
What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp,
Leviticus 22:28 Old Testament, KJV
And whether it be cow, or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.
Numbers 11:22 Old Testament, KJV
Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
Numbers 14:16 Old Testament, KJV
Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
Numbers 19:3 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
Judges 12:6 Old Testament, KJV
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
1 Samuel 1:25 Old Testament, KJV
And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
1 Samuel 14:32 Old Testament, KJV
And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
1 Samuel 14:34 Old Testament, KJV
And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.
1 Kings 18:40 Old Testament, KJV
And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
2 Kings 10:7 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.
2 Kings 10:14 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.
2 Kings 25:7 Old Testament, KJV
And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 29:22 Old Testament, KJV
So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
2 Chronicles 29:24 Old Testament, KJV
And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:15 Old Testament, KJV
Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 35:1 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
2 Chronicles 35:6 Old Testament, KJV
So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
2 Chronicles 35:11 Old Testament, KJV
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.
Ezra 6:20 Old Testament, KJV
For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
Isaiah 22:13 Old Testament, KJV
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
Isaiah 57:5 Old Testament, KJV
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
Isaiah 66:3 Old Testament, KJV
He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
Jeremiah 9:8 Old Testament, KJV
Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
Jeremiah 39:6 Old Testament, KJV
Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
Jeremiah 41:7 Old Testament, KJV
And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.
Jeremiah 52:10 Old Testament, KJV
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
Ezekiel 16:21 Old Testament, KJV
That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
Ezekiel 23:39 Old Testament, KJV
For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
Ezekiel 40:39 Old Testament, KJV
And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.
Ezekiel 40:41 Old Testament, KJV
Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices.
Ezekiel 40:42 Old Testament, KJV
And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
Ezekiel 44:11 Old Testament, KJV
Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.
Hosea 5:2 Old Testament, KJV
And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7819, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 6 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 30 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 3 usages, Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 3 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 6 usages, Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 4 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 6 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H7819 FAQ

What does shachat (שָׁחַט) mean?

Shachat (Strong's H7819) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "slaughter". shachat (shaw-khat') n-f. 1. to slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre) [a primitive root]

How many times is shachat (שָׁחַט) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 70 linked usages for Strong's H7819 across 14 books.

Where can I study shachat (שָׁחַט) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7819 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate shachat (שָׁחַט)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as kill, killed, offering, sacrifice, slay, and killeth. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.