גָּוַעgâvaʻ
expire perish, die
Pronunciation: gaw-vah' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1478
Meanings
Qal: expire (Numbers 20:29; Joshua 22:20; Lamentations 1:19)
Where it appears
Appears 24 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 6:17 “Look! I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing that breathes. Everything on earth will die.
- Genesis 7:21 All the living things on earth died—birds, domestic animals, wild animals, small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the people.
- Genesis 25:8 and he died at a ripe old age, having lived a long and satisfying life. He breathed his last and joined his ancestors in death.
- Genesis 25:17 Ishmael lived for 137 years. Then he breathed his last and joined his ancestors in death.
- Genesis 35:29 Then he breathed his last and died at a ripe old age, joining his ancestors in death. And his sons, Esau and Jacob, buried him.
- Genesis 49:33 When Jacob had finished this charge to his sons, he drew his feet into the bed, breathed his last, and joined his ancestors in death.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).