מָוֶתmâveth

death

Pronunciation: maw'-veth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4194

Meanings

1. death, opposite life (Deuteronomy 30:15; Deuteronomy 30:19; 2 Samuel 15:21)

2. death, by violence as a penalty (Deuteronomy 19:6; Deuteronomy 21:22; Jeremiah 26:11)

3. state of death or place of death (Isaiah 28:15; Isaiah 28:18; Isaiah 38:18)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 155 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 21:16 Then she went and sat down by herself about a hundred yards away. “I don’t want to watch the boy die,” she said, as she burst into tears.
  • Genesis 25:11 After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who settled near Beer-lahai-roi in the Negev.
  • Genesis 26:18 He reopened the wells his father had dug, which the Philistines had filled in after Abraham’s death. Isaac also restored the names Abraham had given them.
  • Genesis 27:2 “I am an old man now,” Isaac said, “and I don’t know when I may die.
  • Genesis 27:7 ‘Bring me some wild game and prepare me a delicious meal. Then I will bless you in the Lord’s presence before I die.’
  • Genesis 27:10 Then take the food to your father so he can eat it and bless you before he dies.”
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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).