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title: טֶבַח — slaughtering · The Tanakh dictionary
description: טֶבַח (2874), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: slaughtering. BDB 1906: n.m. slaughtering, slaughter. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# טֶבַח

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«טֶבַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **slaughtering** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 12 times · **Key:** 2874 · **BDB:** טֶ֫בַח

### Glosses

slaughter (8); a.slaughter (3); \[the\].slaughter (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

slaughtering [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2874/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. slaughtering, slaughter [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2874/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 34:6 slaughtering, slaughter—abs. ט׳ Gn 43:16 + 6 times; טָ֑בַח Ez 21:20 + 3 times; sf. טִבְחָהּ Pr 9:2;— slaughtering, slaughter, of animals for food; as acc. cogn. after טָבַח (q.v.) Gn 43:16 (J), Pr 9:2; כַּשֶּׂה לַטּ׳ יוּבָ֑ל Is 53:7, sim. of suffering servant of י׳; also Pr 7:22 sim. of fatuousness of one following a strange woman, thoughtless of consequences; יֵרְדוּ לַטּ׳ Je 50:27 metaph. of Babylonian leaders, under fig. of bullocks; so prob. 48:15, and perhaps לַטּ׳ תִּכְרָ֑עוּ Is 65:12. in poet. fig. slaughter, to which the nations are given over by י׳ Is 34:2, specif. of Edom v 6 (‖ זֶבַח; v. ז׳ 6, p. 258a); of Isr. Ez 21:20, as acc. cogn. after טָבַח v 15; of Ammon v 33.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «טֶבַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2874/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 9:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.2/)

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טָבְחָ֣ה טִ֭בְחָהּ מָסְכָ֣ה יֵינָ֑הּ אַ֝֗ף עָֽרְכָ֥ה שֻׁלְחָנָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* she.has.slaughtered slaughter her she.has.mixed wine her also she.has.arranged table her

*JPS 1917:* She hath prepared her meat, she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.

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[Proverbs 7:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.22/)

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ה֤וֹלֵ֥ךְ אַחֲרֶ֗יהָ פִּ֫תְאֹ֥ם כְּ֭שׁוֹר אֶל־טָ֣בַחיָב֑וֹא וּ֝כְעֶ֗כֶס אֶל־מוּסַ֥ר אֱוִֽיל׃

*Word for word:* \[he.is\].walking behind her suddenly like an.ox \[which\].to \[the\].slaughter it.goes and like an.anklet to \[the\].chastening of.a.fool

*JPS 1917:* He goeth after her straightway, as an ox that goeth to the slaughter, or as one in fetters to the correction of the fool;

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