tiv.chah denotes slaughter in contexts of prepared meat and a flock marked out for killing.

The attested use concerns slaughter: it occurs with meat prepared for shearers in 1 Samuel 25:11 and with a flock designated for slaughter in Jeremiah 12:3. Psalm 44:23 contains the form, though the supplied APB wording does not isolate its contribution within the plea for God to awake.

1. Slaughter in meat and flock imagery · dominant

   In 1 Samuel 25:11, the construct singular form occurs in the speaker's question about meat prepared for his shearers; the APB renders the clause, "my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers." In Jeremiah 12:3, the absolute singular form stands in the request to drag people away "like a flock for slaughter" and consecrate them for "a day of slaughter"; Psalm 44:23 also has the absolute form, although the supplied APB renders only the surrounding plea, "Awake! Why do you sleep, O Lord?"

   1 Samuel 25:11Jeremiah 12:3Psalm 44:23

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses "slaughtered" in 1 Samuel 25:11 and "slaughter" in Jeremiah 12:3. In Psalm 44:23, its translation does not visibly isolate the term, so the specific English rendering cannot be determined from the supplied text.