To Slay a Victim
To Slay a Victim
Shachath (, Assyrian sakhatu), to kill or slay, is first found in Gen 22:10, ‘ and Abraham stretched forth his h and and took the knife to slay his son.’ The only other place in Genes is where it occurs is in Gen 37:31, ‘ and they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood.’ It is used of the killing of the Passover Lamb in Exo 12:6, &c., and in the directions for sacrifices it constantly occurs. It is rendered offer in Exo 34:25, ‘Thou shalt not offer the blood of any sacrifice with leaven.’
In Jdg 12:6, it is applied to the slaughter of men; also in 1Ki 18:40, where the slaughter of the priests of Baal is referred to; see also 2Ki 10:7; 2Ki 10:14; 2Ki 25:7; Jer 39:6; Jer 41:7; Jer 52:10 in Isa 57:5, the slaughter of children in the valleys was probably sacrificial, to propitiate false gods, as in Eze 23:39, and perhaps Hos 5:2.
The general rendering for the word in the LXX is , but in a few passages we find .
According to the Received Text, in Rev 5:6 we read of a lamb as it were slain (); the fruits, if not the outward marks, of sacrifice abiding in the exalted Saviour (compare Rev 5:9; Rev 5:12; Rev 13:8).