Strong's #7523: ratsach (pronounced raw-tsakh')

a primitive root; properly, to dash in pieces, i.e. kill (a human being), especially to murder:--put to death, kill, (man-)slay(-er), murder(-er).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

râtsach

1) to murder, slay, kill

1a) (Qal) to murder, slay

1a1) premeditated

1a2) accidental

1a3) as avenger

1a4) slayer (intentional) (participle)

1b) (Niphal) to be slain

1c) (Piel)

1c1) to murder, assassinate

1c2) murderer, assassin (participle) (substantive)

1d) (Pual) to be killed

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 47 times:

 

Exodus 20:13: "Thou shalt not kill."
Numbers 35:6: "for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add"
Numbers 35:11: "to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person"
Numbers 35:12: "unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until"
Numbers 35:16: "of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death."
Numbers 35:16: "so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death."
Numbers 35:17: "he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death."
Numbers 35:17: "and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death."
Numbers 35:18: "he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death."
Numbers 35:18: "and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death."
Numbers 35:19: "himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay"
Numbers 35:21: "he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay"
Numbers 35:21: "the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth"
Numbers 35:25: "And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood,"
Numbers 35:26: "But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge,"
Numbers 35:27: "of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not"
Numbers 35:27: "and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:"
Numbers 35:28: "the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession."
Numbers 35:30: "killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one"
Numbers 35:30: "any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness"
Numbers 35:31: "no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but"
Deuteronomy 4:42: " That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbor unawares,"
Deuteronomy 4:42: "might flee thither, which should kill his neighbor unawares,"
Deuteronomy 5:17: "Thou shalt not kill."
Deuteronomy 19:3: "thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither."
Deuteronomy 19:4: "And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso"
Deuteronomy 19:6: "the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot,"
Deuteronomy 22:26: "when a man riseth against his neighbor, and slayeth him, even so is this"
Joshua 20:3: " That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither:"
Joshua 20:5: "him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote"
Joshua 20:6: "in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city,"
Joshua 21:13: "to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs,"
Joshua 21:21: "to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,"
Joshua 21:27: "with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beesh-terah with"
Joshua 21:32: "her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammoth-dor with her suburbs,"
Joshua 21:38: "her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,"
Judges 20:4: "And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came"
1 Kings 21:19: "Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto"
2 Kings 6:32: "See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away"
Job 24:14: " The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is"
Psalms 62:3: "How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall"
Psalms 94:6: "They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless."
Proverbs 22:13: "man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets."
Isaiah 1:21: "righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers."
Jeremiah 7:9: "Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk"
Hosea 4:2: "By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth"
Hosea 6:9: "for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit"