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. Hosea 9:13 הֹרֵ֖ג ho.Reg · An -ing word: simple action

    Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring out his children to the slayer.

  2. Amos 2:3 אֶהֱר֥וֹג 'e.he.Rog · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah.

  3. Amos 4:10 הָרַ֤גְתִּי ha.Rag.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I have made the stench of your camp to come up even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.

  4. Amos 9:1 אֶהֱרֹ֑ג 'e.he.Rog · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    I saw the Lord standing beside the altar: and he said, Smite the capitals, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.

  5. Amos 9:4 וַהֲרָגָ֑תַם va.ha.ra.Ga.tam · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

  6. Habakkuk 1:17 לַהֲרֹ֥ג la.ha.Rog · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Shall he therefore empty his net, and spare not to slay the nations continually?

  7. Zechariah 11:5 יַֽהֲרְגֻן֙ ya.har.Gun · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty; and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich; and their own shepherds pity them not.

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