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slain

Meaning of “slain”

Killed, put to death, struck down, or slaughtered.

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First occurrence: Genesis 4:23

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Jeremiah 9:1
OH that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 9:1 · retained source text

¶ Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountaine of teares, that I might weepe day and night for the slaine of the daughter of my people.

1611 marginal noteHeb. who will giue my head &c.

1611 marginal noteIsa.22.4. chap.4.19.

Jeremiah 14:18
If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 14:18 · retained source text

If I goe forth into the field, then behold the slaine with the sword, and if I enter into the citie, then behold them that are sicke with famine, yea both the prophet and the priest goe about into a land that they know not.

1611 marginal noteOr, make merchandise against a land, and men acknowledge it not, Chap. 5.31.

Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 18:21 · retained source text

Therefore deliuer vp their children to the famine, and powre out their blood by the force of the sword, and let their wiues be bereaued of their children and be widowes, and let their men be put to death, let their yong men be slaine by the sword in battell.

1611 marginal noteHeb. powre them out.

1611 marginal notePsal.109.10.

Jeremiah 25:33
And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 25:33 · retained source text

And the slaine of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth euen vnto the other ende of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered nor buried, they shall be doung vpon the ground.

1611 marginal noteCha.16.4.

Jeremiah 33:5
They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 33:5 · retained source text

They come to fight with the Caldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whome I haue slaine in mine anger, and in my fury, and for all whose wickednesse I haue hid my face from this citie.

Jeremiah 41:4
And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 41:4 · retained source text

And it came to passe the second day after he had slaine Gedaliah, and no man knew it,

Jeremiah 41:9
Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.
2 word occurrences in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 41:9 · retained source text

Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men (whom he had slaine because of Gedaliah) was it, which Asa the king had made, for feare of Baasha king of Israel, and Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slaine.

1611 marginal noteOr, neere Gedaliah, heb. by the hand or by the side of Gedaliah.

Jeremiah 41:16
Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 41:16 · retained source text

Then tooke Iohanan the sonne of Kareah, and all the captaines of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recouered from Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah, from Mizpah (after that he had slaine Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam,) euen mighty men of warre, and the women, and the children, and the eunuches whom he had brought againe from Gibeon.

Jeremiah 41:18
Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Jeremiah 41:18 · retained source text

Because of the Caldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah had slaine Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made gouernour in the land.

Jeremiah 51:4
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 51:4 · retained source text

Thus the slaine shall fall in the land of the Caldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streetes.

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