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Strong's #02077 - זֶבַח
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2117) hbz (זבהה ZBHh) AC: Sacrifice CO: Altar AB: ?: The killing of an animal for food or sacrifice. [from: hb]
V) hbz (זבהה ZBHh) - Sacrifice: To kill an animal for an offering. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (135): (vf: Paal, Piel) sacrifice, offer, kill, slay - Strongs: H1684 (דְּבַח), H2076 (זָבַח)
Nm) hbz (זבהה ZBHh) - Sacrifice: An animal killed for an offering. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (163): sacrifice, offering, offer - Strongs: H1685 (דְּבַח), H2077 (זֶבַח)
am) hbzm (מזבהה MZBHh) - Al KJV (1): alter - Strongs: H4056 (מַדְבַּח)
hm ) hbzm (מזבהה MZBHh) - Al |kjv: alter - Strongs: H4196 (מִזְבֵּחַ)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
זֶבַח m. with suff. זִבְחִי, pl. זְבָחִים, const. זבְחֵי once זְבָחוֹת Hosea 4:19.
(1) pr. a slaying; hence the flesh of slain animals, feasts, Genesis 31:54; Ezekiel 39:17; Proverbs 17:1, זִבְחֵי־רִיב contentious feasts.
(2) a sacrifice [“whether the act of sacrificing or”], an offering, a victim. Opposed both to מִנְחָה a bloodless offering [when so contrasted], 1 Samuel 2:29 Psal. 40:7, and to עוֹלָה a burnt offering, holocaust; so that זֶבַח denotes sacrifices of which but a part were consumed, such as expiatory or eucharistic offerings, etc., Exodus 10:25; Leviticus 17:8; Numbers 15:5, זֶבַח שְׁלָמִים a eucharistic offering, Leviticus 3:1, 4:10, etc. It is also used in speaking generally of great and solemn sacrifices, and sacrificial feasts. זֶבַח הַיָּמִים an annual sacrifice, 1 Samuel 1:21, 20:6. זֶבַח מִשְׁפָּחָה a family sacrifice, 20:29 compare 9:12, 13 1 Samuel 9:13, 16:3.
(3) [Zebah], pr.n. of a Midianite king, Judges 8:5; Psalms 83:12.
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