הרג

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הָרַג • (harág) (pa'al construction, passive counterpart נֶהֱרַג)

1. to kill (put to death).
   • c. 700 BCE, Genesis 4:14:

     הֵן֩ גֵּרַ֨שְׁתָּ אֹתִ֜י הַיּ֗וֹם מֵעַל֙ פְּנֵ֣י הָֽאֲדָמָ֔ה וּמִפָּנֶ֖יךָ אֶסָּתֵ֑ר וְהָיִ֜יתִי נָ֤ע וָנָד֙ בָּאָ֔רֶץ וְהָיָ֥ה כָל־מֹֽצְאִ֖י יַֽהַרְגֵֽנִי

     Here you have driven me from the face of the earth, and from you I will be hidden, and I will be a wanderer and an exile on the land, and it will happen that whoever finds me will kill me.

   • 1994, The Lion King, spoken by Scar (Eli Gorenstein):

     אני הרגתי את מופסה!

     Aní harágti et Mufása!

     I killed Mufasa!

2. (informal, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in (likely calqued from English).

   אתה הורג אותי.

   atá horég otí.

   You're killing me.

3. (הֹרֵג, horég) masculine singular present participle and present tense of הָרַג
   • Tanach, Exodus 4:23, with Young's Literal Translation:

     הִנֵּה אָנֹכִי הֹרֵג אֶת־בִּנְךָ בְּכֹרֶך

     hinnē ānoḵī hōrēḡ eṯ-binḵā bəḵōréḵā

     lo, I am slaying thy son, thy first-born

4. (הָרֹג, haróg) infinitive absolute of הָרַג
   • Tanach, Deuteronomy 13:9, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     כִּי הָרֹג תַּהַרְגֶנּוּ

     kī hāroḡ taharəḡénnū

     but thou shalt surely kill him

• רצח (“murder”)

• הוֹצָאָה לְהוֹרֵג (hotsa'á lehorég)

• →⇒ Yiddish: הרגענען (hargenen)

• H2026 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

הֶרֶג • (héreg) m [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. (uncountable) killing, murder, slaughter, massacre

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