Yes and no... There were multiple words for "to kill" and the original word in hebrew is to kill in the sense of murder https://biblehub.com/hebrew/7523.htm "ratsach" (raw-tsakh') רָצַח to murder, slay It's like in the law, there's a difference between, murder and manslaughter. And there are also different types of categories of manslaughter Murder implies 'malice aforethought' to begin with, it's not an accident nor self defense