הָרַג

ha.rag · to kill

Hebrew · Strong's H2026 · Verb · Sounds like: haw-rag' · 167 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; to smite with deadly intent; destroy, out of hand, kill, murder(-er), put to (death), make (slaughter), slay(-er), [idiom] surely.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
הָרַג vb. kill, slay
Qal
1.
a. kill, slay, implying ruthless violence
b. hence of wholesale slaughter after battle
2. of God’s slaying in judgment
3. rarely of judicial killing by men (at God’s command)
4. of killing beasts
5. of killing by beasts
6. quite general
7. destroy, ruin
Niph.
1. shall priest and prophet be slain in the sanctuary?
2. pass. of Qal 1 b
Pu. be slain

Every occurrence

  1. 2 Kings 8:12 תַּהֲרֹ֔ג ta.ha.Rog · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    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 strongholds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.

  2. 2 Kings 9:31 הֹרֵ֥ג ho.Reg · An -ing word: simple action

    And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Is it peace, thou Zimri, thy master's murderer?

  3. 2 Kings 10:9 וָאֶהְרְגֵ֔הוּ va.'eh.re.Ge.hu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by me

    And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye are righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him; but who smote all these?

  4. 2 Kings 11:18 הָרְג֖וּ ha.re.Gu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And all the people of the land went to 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 Jehovah.

  5. 2 Kings 17:25 הֹרְגִ֖ים ho.re.Gim · An -ing word: simple action

    And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not Jehovah: therefore Jehovah sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

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