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2 Chronicles 28:6

“For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

הָרַגhârag · haw-rag'
H2026 · Hebrew

Definition: to smite with deadly intent
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV renderings: destroy, out of hand, kill, murder(-er), put to (death), make (slaughter), slay(-er), [idiom] surely.
Grammar: וַ — conjunction
יַּהֲרֹג֩ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
Code HC/Vqw3ms
Usage: Occurs 167 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 4:8 Genesis 4:14 Genesis 4:15 Genesis 4:23 Genesis 4:25

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read הָרַג here.

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.