Harag הָרַג

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Harag
הָרַג
Transliterationharag
Strong's numberH2026
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechverb
Glossto kill
Occurrences167 in 158 verses
Most frequent inGenesis (16)

Harag (Hebrew הָרַג, Strong's H2026) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to kill”. It occurs 167 times in 158 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to kill, slay, murder, destroy, murderer, slayer, out of hand
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to kill, slay
1a2) to destroy, ruin
1b) (Niphal) to be killed
1c) (Pual) to be killed, be slain

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVslew (56), slay (39), slain (31), kill (16), killed (3), slaying (3), me (2), slayeth (2), killedst (2), him (1), hand (1), surely kill (1), and 9 other renderings
BSBkilled (19), kill (13), they killed (8), kill me (5), slaughtered (5), kill you (4), killed him (3), i will kill (3), kill them (3), they will kill (2), they will kill me (2), they kill (2), and 75 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Harag, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Nehemiah

Esther

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Ezekiel

Hosea

Amos

Habakkuk

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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