Bible word study

Tebach (Strong’s H2874): Meaning in the Bible

Tebach (טֶבַח) is the Hebrew word numbered H2874 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, something slaughtered; hence, a beast (or meat, as butchered); abstractly butchery (or concretely, a place of slaughter). In the King James Bible it is translated slaughter.

• Original wordטֶבַח
• Transliterationṭebach
• Pronunciationteh'-bakh
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH2874
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H2873;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Tebach appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Tebach (H2874) stands behind 11 English renderings in 11 verses across 4 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Isaiah (4), Ezekiel (3), Proverbs (2).

How the King James Bible renders Tebach, by count

• slaughter9 of 11 (82 percent)
• beasts1 of 11 (9 percent)
• sore1 of 11 (9 percent)

Three places to read Tebach

• Proverbs 7:22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
• Isaiah 34:6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
• Jeremiah 50:27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Tebach in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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