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Gematria of Murder

2 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “murder” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 214 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.

Hebrew equivalents
2
Occurrences
214
Distinct values
2

The 2 Hebrew words rendered “murder”

The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.

הָרַגhârag×167 in the TanakhH2026

to smite with deadly intent

Standard 208 →Gadol 208Katan 10Siduri (ordinal) 28Atbash 293Perati 40,034Milui 599

First appearance ·Genesis 4:8בראשית ד:חוַיַּהַרְגֵֽהוּ

See all 19 occurrences of the spelling הרג →

רָצַחrâtsach×47 in the TanakhH7523

properly, to dash in pieces, i.e. kill (a human being), especially to murder

Standard 298 →Gadol 298Katan 19Siduri (ordinal) 46Atbash 68Perati 48,164Milui 1,032

First appearance ·Exodus 20:13שמות כ:יגתִּרְצָֽח

See all 8 occurrences of the spelling רצח →

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What is the gematria of murder?

The Tanakh renders “murder” with 2 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: הרג = 208 and רצח = 298.

How do you say murder in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 2 Hebrew words for “murder”; the most frequent are הרג (hârag), 167 times; רצח (râtsach), 47 times. Every one is listed on this page.

The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.