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 Samuel 3:30 הָרְג֖וּ ha.re.Gu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

  2. 2 Samuel 4:10 וָאֶהְרְגֵ֖הוּ va.'eh.re.Ge.hu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by me

    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, which was the reward I gave him for his tidings.

  3. 2 Samuel 4:11 הָרְג֧וּ ha.re.Gu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

  4. 2 Samuel 4:12 וַיַּהַרְג֗וּם vai.ya.har.Gum · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.

  5. 2 Samuel 10:18 וַיַּהֲרֹ֨ג vai.ya.ha.Rog · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians the men of seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, so that he died there.

  6. 2 Samuel 12:9 הָרַ֔גְתָּ ha.Rag.ta · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to do that which is evil in his sight? thou hast smitten 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.

  7. 2 Samuel 14:7 הָרָ֔ג ha.Rag · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And, behold, the whole family is risen against thy handmaid, and they say, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the face of the earth.

  8. 2 Samuel 23:21 וַיַּהַרְגֵ֖הוּ vai.ya.har.Ge.hu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    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.

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