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. Joshua 8:24 לַהֲרֹג֩ la.ha.Rog · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    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 pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

  2. Joshua 9:26 הֲרָגֽוּם׃ ha.ra.Gum · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.

  3. Joshua 10:11 הָרְג֛וּ ha.re.Gu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, that Jehovah cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

  4. Joshua 13:22 הָרְג֧וּ ha.re.Gu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among the rest of their slain.

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