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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)
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Where it appears
157 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 2:24 · HNcmsc
After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Abijah, Hezron’s wife, bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
1 Chronicles 22:5 · HNcmsc/Sp3ms
David said, “Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries. I will therefore make preparation for it.” So David prepared abundantly before his death.
1 Kings 2:26 · HNcmsa
To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields, for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord Yahweh’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”
1 Kings 11:40 · HNcmsc
Therefore Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam arose and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
1 Samuel 5:11 · HNcmsa
They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, “Send the ark of the God of Israel away, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly panic throughout all the city. The hand of God was very heavy there.
1 Samuel 15:32 · HTd/Ncmsa
Then Samuel said, “Bring Agag the king of the Amalekites here to me!” Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”
1 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.