{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H7819",
  "lemma": "שָׁחַט",
  "transliteration": "shâchaṭ",
  "definition": "to slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre)",
  "kjv": "kill, offer, shoot out, slay, slaughter.",
  "occurrences": 81,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "שָׁחַט 84 vb. slaughter, beat",
    "Qal slaughter",
    "Niph. be slaughtered for food",
    "שַׁחֲטָה n.f",
    "שַׁחֲטָה n.f. doubtful word;—Ho 5:2 RV (cf. AV) the revolters are gone deep in slaughtering"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 22:10",
      "text": "Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 37:31",
      "text": "They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=31"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 12:6",
      "text": "You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 12:21",
      "text": "Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 29:11",
      "text": "You shall kill the bull before the LORD at the door of the Tent of Meeting.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/29?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 29:16",
      "text": "You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/29?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 29:20",
      "text": "Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/29?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 34:25",
      "text": "“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The sacrifice of the feast of the Passover shall…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 1:5",
      "text": "He shall kill the bull before the LORD. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/1?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 1:11",
      "text": "He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the LORD. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/1?v=11"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H7819",
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