זָבַח zâbach — to slaughter an animal (usually in sacrifice)
Translated in the KJV as kill, offer, sacrifice, slay.
a primitive root; to slaughter an animal (usually in sacrifice).
zâbach in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 31Imperfect (yiqtol) 22Participle (active) 20Infinitive construct 17Sequential perfect (weqatal) 8Cohortative 7Imperative 3Perfect (qatal) 3Jussive 1
Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer–sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.
Pi'el
Participle (active) 11Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Perfect (qatal) 3Wayyiqtol 2Infinitive construct 1
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord, until those days.
And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
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 ›