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שְׁחִיטָה

she.chi.tah

slaughtering

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Strong’s H7821Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

the slaughter of1

In the text

2 Chronicles 30:17שְׁחִיטַת
Since there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves, the Levites were in charge of slaughtering the Passover lambs for every unclean person to consecrate the lambs to the LORD.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[שְׁחִיטָה] n.f. act of slaying;—cstr. 2 Ch 30:17.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.