This term appears only in Isaiah 14:21, where the prophet condemns Babylon's rulers to prepare a slaughtering-place for their sons—a grim reversal of power. The underlying image is that of a place where animals are slaughtered, but here applied metaphorically to violent judgment. The multilingual evidence (English 'slaughter,' Spanish 'matadero' = slaughterhouse) confirms the concrete-to-metaphorical extension. The passage uses the implicit figure of enemies as animals destined for slaughter, a common prophetic motif of divine judgment.