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מָוֶת

mâveth · Hebrew · Strong's H4194 · 157 occurrences

The KJV renders 9 different Hebrew and Greek words as “death”

What it means

death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin

from H4191 (מוּת);

How the KJV renders it

dead, death, die

Where that flattens a distinction

The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.

death
also renders apothnḗskō (G599), teleutḗ (G5054), anaíresis (G336), thánatos (G2288), Mûwth (H4192), môwth (H4193), mâmôwth (H4463), tᵉmûwthâh (H8546)
die
also renders apothnḗskō (G599), apṓleia (G684), teleutáō (G5053), thnḗskō (G2348), apóllymi (G622), tᵉmûwthâh (H8546)
dead
also renders nekrós (G3498), râphâʼ (H7496), shâdad (H7703)

Questions this word decides

Where it appears

157 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.

1 Chronicles 2:24 HNcmsc1 Chronicles 22:5 HNcmsc/Sp3ms1 Kings 2:26 HNcmsa1 Kings 11:40 HNcmsc1 Samuel 5:11 HNcmsa1 Samuel 15:32 HTd/Ncmsa1 Samuel 15:35 HNcmsc/Sp3ms1 Samuel 20:3 HTd/Ncmsa1 Samuel 20:31 HNcmsa1 Samuel 26:16 HNcmsa2 Chronicles 22:4 HNcmsc2 Chronicles 24:15 HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms2 Chronicles 24:17 HNcmsc2 Chronicles 25:25 HNcmsc2 Chronicles 26:21 HNcmsc/Sp3ms2 Chronicles 32:33 HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms2 Kings 1:1 HNcmsc2 Kings 2:21 HNcmsa2 Kings 3:5 HR/Ncmsc2 Kings 4:40 HNcmsa2 Kings 14:17 HNcmsc2 Kings 15:5 HNcmsc/Sp3ms2 Samuel 1:1 HNcmsc2 Samuel 1:23 HC/R/Ncmsc/Sp3mp2 Samuel 3:33 HTi/R/Ncmsc2 Samuel 6:23 HNcmsc/Sp3fs2 Samuel 12:5 HNcmsa2 Samuel 15:21 HR/Ncmsa2 Samuel 19:28 HNcmsa2 Samuel 20:3 HVqc/Sp3fp2 Samuel 22:5 HNcmsa2 Samuel 22:6 HNcmsaDeuteronomy 19:6 HNcmsaDeuteronomy 21:22 HNcmsaDeuteronomy 22:26 HNcmsaDeuteronomy 30:15 HTd/NcmsaDeuteronomy 30:19 HC/Td/NcmsaDeuteronomy 31:27 HNcmsc/Sp1csDeuteronomy 31:29 HNcmsc/Sp1csDeuteronomy 33:1 HNcmsc/Sp3msDeuteronomy 34:7 HR/Ncmsc/Sp3msEcclesiastes 3:19 HNcmscEcclesiastes 7:1 HTd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 7:26 HR/NcmsaEcclesiastes 8:8 HTd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 10:1 HNcmsaEsther 2:7 HC/R/NcmscExodus 10:17 HTd/NcmsaEzekiel 18:23 HNcmscEzekiel 18:32 HR/NcmscEzekiel 28:10 HNcmpcEzekiel 31:14 HRd/NcmsaEzekiel 33:11 HR/NcmscGenesis 21:16 HR/NcmscGenesis 25:11 HNcmscGenesis 26:18 HNcmscGenesis 27:2 HNcmsc/Sp1csGenesis 27:7 HNcmsc/Sp1csGenesis 27:10 HNcmsc/Sp3msGenesis 50:16 HNcmsc/Sp3ms

Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.