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. 1 Kings 18:12 וַהֲרָגָ֑נִי va.ha.ra.Ga.ni · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And it will come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of Jehovah will carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will slay me: but I thy servant fear Jehovah from my youth.

  2. 1 Kings 18:13 בַּהֲרֹ֣ג ba.ha.Rog · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of Jehovah, how I hid a hundred men of Jehovah's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

  3. 1 Kings 18:14 וַהֲרָגָֽנִי׃ ס va.ha.ra.Ga.ni · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here; and he will slay me.

  4. 1 Kings 19:1 הָרַ֛ג ha.Rag · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

  5. 1 Kings 19:10 הָרְג֣וּ ha.re.Gu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah, the 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.

  6. 1 Kings 19:14 הָרְג֣וּ ha.re.Gu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah, the 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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?

  9. 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?

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 1 Chronicles 7:21 וַהֲרָג֗וּם va.ha.ra.Gum · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in the land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.

  13. 1 Chronicles 11:23 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 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.

  14. 1 Chronicles 19:18 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 thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.

  15. 2 Chronicles 21:4 וַיַּהֲרֹ֥ג vai.ya.ha.Rog · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Now when Jehoram was risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself, he slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel.

  16. 2 Chronicles 21:13 הָרָֽגְתָּ׃ ha.Ra.ge.ta · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    but hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, like as the house of Ahab did, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, who were better than thyself:

  17. 2 Chronicles 22:1 הָרַ֣ג ha.Rag · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    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.

  18. 2 Chronicles 22:8 וַיַּהַרְגֵֽם׃ vai.ya.har.Gem · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And it came to pass, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, that he found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, ministering to Ahaziah, and slew them.

  19. 2 Chronicles 23:17 הָרְג֖וּ ha.re.Gu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And 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.

  20. 2 Chronicles 24:22 וַֽיַּהֲרֹ֖ג vai.ya.ha.Rog · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    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, Jehovah look upon it, and require it.

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