Lexical Summary shachat: to slaughter, beat Original Word: שָׁחַטTransliteration: shachat Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-khat') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to slaughter, beat Meaning: to slaughter, beat Strong's Concordance kill, offer, shoot out, slay, slaughter A primitive root; to slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre) -- kill, offer, shoot out, slay, slaughter. Brown-Driver-Briggs H7819. shachat שָׁחַט verb slaughter, beat (originally beat, flay? compare Assyrian ša—â‰u, flay, take off dress; Arabic slay (but = —; is this loan-word in Arabic ?); Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew, especially in ritual); — Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳שׁ Jeremiah 39:6 +, suffix וּשְׁחָטוֺ consecutive Leviticus 3:2, etc.; Imperfect3masculine singular יִשְׁחַט 4:24 +, 2 feminine singular וַתִּשְׁחֲטִי Ezekiel 16:21, 3masculine plural suffix וַיִּשְׁחָט֫וּהוּ Judges 12:6; Imperative masculine plural שַׁחֲטוּ Exodus 12:21; 2 Chronicles 35:6; Infinitive absolute שָׁחֹט Isaiah 22:13; construct לִשְׁחֹט Genesis 22:10, וֺט- Ezekiel 40:39, suffix שַׁחֲטָם (Ges§ 64a) 23:39; Participle active שׁוֺחֵט Isaiah 66:3, etc.; passive שָׁחוּט 1 Kings 10:16 +, etc.; — slaughter: 1 beast for food 1 Samuel 14:32, 34 (twice in verse); Isaiah 22:13 ("" הָרַג), compare Leviticus 17:3 (twice in verse), for blood Genesis 37:31 (E). 2 usually (51 t.; Hexateuch only P, 38 t.) technical term of killing sacrifice (BJacobZAW xvii (1897), 5i), 1 Samuel 1:25; Exodus 29:11; Leviticus 1:5, 11; 4:24; 9:8; Numbers 19:3; 2 Chronicles 29:22 (twice in verse); 29:24 +; absolute Ezekiel 40:41 (אֶל location); bird Leviticus 14:5-6, 50, 51; beast in illicit sacrifice Isaiah 66:3; with accusative of sacrifice (חַטָאת אָשָׁם, עוֺלָה,, etc.) Ezekiel 40:39 (אֶל location), 40:42; 44:11; Leviticus 4:24; 7:2; 14:13 +; passover lamb Exodus 12:6, accusative הַמֶּסַח 12:21; 2 Chronicles 30:15; 35:1, 6, 11; Ezra 6:20. 3 slaughter person Judges 12:6; 1 Kings 18:40; 2 Kings 10:7, 14 (אֶל location), 25:7 = Jeremiah 39:6a = 52:10a, 39:6b = 52:10b, 41:7; ׳י subject Numbers 14:16 (JE); in human sacrifice Genesis 22:10 (E), to false gods Ezekiel 16:21; 23:39; Isaiah 57:5. 4 passive participle = beaten, hammered, שָׁחוּט זָהָב 1 Kings 10:16-17, 2 Chronicles 9:15a 9:16, of shekels 9:15; so also Jeremiah 9:7 Qr חֵץשָׁחוּט (> Kt שׁוֺחֵט) hammered (i.e. sharpened) arrow. Niph`al Imperfect3masculine singular יִשָּׁחֵט Numbers 11:22 (J) be slaughtered for food (subject beast); 3 feminine singular תִּשָּׁחֵט Leviticus 6:18 (twice in verse) (P) be slain, of sacrifice. שְׁחֲטָה noun feminine (Qal Infinitive construct Köi. 263) doubtful word; — ׳וְשׁ הֶעְמִיקוּ שֵׂטִים Hosea 5:2 RV (compare AV) the revolters are gone deep in slaughtering ['Opferschlächterei' Köii. 1. 590, n. 1], Ew Now (formerly), Che in corrupting (read then שַׁחֲתָה); We Now GASm Marti הַשִּׁטִּים שַׁחַת have made deep the pit of Shittim (as place of idolatry). שְׁחִין see שׁחן. שְׁחִיף see [ שָׂחִיף]. below, שָׁחִיס Isaiah 37:30 = סָחִישׁ (in "" 2 Kings 19:29), q. v. שׁחל (√ of following; DlProl.34 compare Assyrian ša—âlu, call, proclaim; perhaps both onomatopoetic, as Arabic bray (of ass), compare NöZMG xi (1886), 725). |