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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 themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

שָׁחַטshâchaṭ · shaw-khat'
H7819 · Hebrew
Definition
to slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre)
Derivation
a primitive root;
KJV renderings
kill, offer, shoot out, slay, slaughter.
Grammar
  • וַ — conjunction
  • יִּשְׁחֲט֣וּ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
Code HC/Vqw3mp
Usage
Occurs 82 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 22:10Genesis 37:31Exodus 12:6Exodus 12:21Exodus 29:11

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 שָׁחַט 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.