ha.rag describes causing death, including killing by sword, command, violence, or judgment.

The verb consistently denotes causing death. Its occurrences describe people killed in warfare, executions, personal violence, and threatened or declared judgment; passive forms likewise identify those who are slain.

1. Causing death or being slain · dominant

   In 1 Chronicles 11:23, the sequential imperfect occurs after the Egyptian's spear is taken, and the APB renders the resulting action "killed him with his spear." The same use covers killing with the sword in 2 Kings 8:12, a command to kill specified groups in Ezekiel 9:6, and those identified as slain in the Niphal forms of Ezekiel 26:6 and Ezekiel 26:15.

   1 Chronicles 11:232 Kings 8:12Ezekiel 9:6Ezekiel 26:6Ezekiel 26:15Esther 9:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly uses "killed" for clauses containing the term, and uses "slain" or "those killed" where the supplied morphology is passive. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings confirm the clauses' death-causing context without fixing an English equivalent in every occurrence.