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Genesis 4:15

וַ יֹּאמֶר לֹו יְהוָה לָכֵן כָּל הֹרֵג קַיִן שִׁבְעָתַיִם יֻקָּם וַ יָּשֶׂם יְהוָה לְ קַיִן אֹות לְ בִלְתִּי הַכֹּות אֹתֹו כָּל מֹצְאֹו
And Yahweh is saying to-himself, `To an upright, the whole of the one-who-slays Spearhead, seven-times he is being avenged.180` And Yahweh is placing for Spearhead a sign to except the smiting of אֶת-him the whole of him-who-finds him.181
180

Verb to avenge, take vengeance (#5358) in the “causative-passive” Hophal form. Cf. Stem Hophal. This form of the verb is only found here and in Exodus 21:21.