# שָׁחַט (shachat)

Israeli respelling: sha-chat. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7819. 70 Old Testament occurrences.

to slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre)

King James renderings: kill, offer, shoot out, slay, slaughter.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shachat-h7819

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 22:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/22/10) — And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
- [Genesis 37:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/31) — And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
- [Exodus 12:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/6) — And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in t…
- [Exodus 12:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/21) — Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the p…
- [Exodus 29:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/29/11) — And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
- [Exodus 29:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/29/16) — And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
- [Exodus 29:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/29/20) — Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear o…
- [Exodus 34:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/34/25) — Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morni…
- [Leviticus 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/1/5) — And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upo…
- [Leviticus 1:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/1/11) — And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall sprinkle his blood round abou…
- [Leviticus 3:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/3/2) — And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron’s sons th…
- [Leviticus 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/3/8) — And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron’s sons shall spri…
- [Leviticus 3:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/3/13) — And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle…
- [Leviticus 4:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/4/4) — And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock…
- [Leviticus 4:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/4/15) — And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed befo…
- [Leviticus 4:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/4/24) — And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it is a s…
- [Leviticus 4:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/4/29) — And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
- [Leviticus 4:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/4/33) — And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.
- [Leviticus 6:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/6/25) — Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the si…
- [Leviticus 7:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/7/2) — In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about…
- [Leviticus 8:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/8/15) — And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and p…
- [Leviticus 8:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/8/19) — And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
- [Leviticus 8:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/8/23) — And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and…
- [Leviticus 9:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/9/8) — Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
- [Leviticus 9:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/9/12) — And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar.
- [Leviticus 9:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/9/15) — And he brought the people’s offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as…
- [Leviticus 9:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/9/18) — He slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron’s sons presented unto him the…
- [Leviticus 14:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/5) — And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
- [Leviticus 14:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/6) — As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in th…
- [Leviticus 14:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/13) — And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offe…
- [Leviticus 14:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/19) — And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he sh…
- [Leviticus 14:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/25) — And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon…
- [Leviticus 14:50](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/50) — And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:
- [Leviticus 14:51](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/51) — And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in…
- [Leviticus 16:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/16/11) — And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, an…
- [Leviticus 16:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/16/15) — Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he…
- [Leviticus 17:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/17/3) — What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp,
- [Leviticus 22:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/22/28) — And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.
- [Numbers 11:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/11/22) — Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffi…
- [Numbers 14:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/16) — Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
- [Numbers 19:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/19/3) — And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
- [Judges 12:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/12/6) — Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and s…
- [1 Samuel 1:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/1/25) — And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
- [1 Samuel 14:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/32) — And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the…
- [1 Samuel 14:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/34) — And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay…
- [1 Kings 18:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/40) — And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the b…
- [2 Kings 10:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/7) — And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets…
- [2 Kings 10:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/14) — And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither lef…
- [2 Kings 25:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/25/7) — And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him…
- [2 Chronicles 29:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/29/22) — So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, th…
- [2 Chronicles 29:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/29/24) — And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the kin…
- [2 Chronicles 30:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/30/15) — Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified thems…
- [2 Chronicles 35:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/35/1) — Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- [2 Chronicles 35:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/35/6) — So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of…
- [2 Chronicles 35:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/35/11) — And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.
- [Ezra 6:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/6/20) — For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivit…
- [Isaiah 22:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/22/13) — And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall…
- [Isaiah 57:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/5) — Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
- [Isaiah 66:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/66/3) — He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as i…
- [Jeremiah 9:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/9/8) — Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth hi…
- [Jeremiah 39:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/39/6) — Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
- [Jeremiah 41:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/41/7) — And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the…
- [Jeremiah 52:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/52/10) — And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
- [Ezekiel 16:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/21) — That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
- [Ezekiel 23:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/39) — For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they…
- [Ezekiel 40:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/39) — And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offe…
- [Ezekiel 40:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/41) — Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices.
- [Ezekiel 40:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/42) — And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit hi…
- [Ezekiel 44:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/11) — Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the bur…
- [Hosea 5:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/5/2) — And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.