שָׁחַט shâchaṭ — to slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre)
Translated in the KJV as kill, offer, shoot out, slay, slaughter.
a primitive root; to slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre).
shâchaṭ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 28Sequential perfect (weqatal) 22Imperfect (yiqtol) 13Participle (passive) 4Infinitive construct 3Perfect (qatal) 3Imperative 2Participle (active) 2Infinitive absolute 1
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 3
All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the Lord made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.
Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›