How do I search for murder in the Old Testament

and how do I find the root word or lemma and limit the search to that root or lemma? Also the same in the New Testament?

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John Fidel

I would start with the Bible Sense Lexicon as follows. From there you can perform BWS reports on the various Hebrew lemmas. You can also run a search for the bible sense, but as you can see the topic is broad and the BSL gives you options to study narrow or broad. Here is a screenshot:

There are also several Bible Senses for murder, but it is more limited. Just enter murder in the find box.

John Fidel

Here is a search rather than using the BSL:

What I really like about the BSL is that it includes the concept of murder or to kill and provides the various lemmas used. It would be more difficult to create a search using just the lemmas and making sure you include all of them.

Dave Hooton

Do a Bible Word Study on Murder, which will give you "rings" for both Hebrew and Greek words. Click the sector for a word and then right-click the word at the top of the list to perform a search, copy, BWS, etc. If you do a lemma search you will get the root word from the right click menu in the resource.

The context menu search will give you parameters from which you can further restrict the search to a single Greek or Hebrew resource or a reverse interlinear bible like ESV, NASB95, NRSV. You may have to switch from a Basic Search to a Bible Search e.g.

Although it says "All Passages" the Hebrew word will restrict the search to the OT