# H2026 הָרַג

הָרַג (hârag), Strong’s H2026: to smite with deadly intent KJV: destroy, out of hand, kill, murder(-er), put to (death), make (slaughter), slay(-er)…. Occurs 167 times.

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*hârag* — to smite with deadly intent

KJV: destroy, out of hand, kill, murder(-er), put to (death), make (slaughter), slay(-er)…

Occurs 167 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- הָרַג vb. kill, slay
- Qal
- 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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 4:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=8) — Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his…
- [Genesis 4:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=14) — Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a…
- [Genesis 4:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=15) — The LORD said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” The LORD appointed a…
- [Genesis 4:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=23) — Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a…
- [Genesis 4:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=25) — Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, saying, “for God has given me another child…
- [Genesis 12:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=12) — It will happen that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will…
- [Genesis 20:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/20?v=4) — Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?
- [Genesis 20:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/20?v=11) — Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’
- [Genesis 26:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=7) — The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest…
- [Genesis 27:41](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=41) — Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of…