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
- מוּתmûwth · H4191to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
- חֲצַרְמָוֶתChătsarmâveth · H2700Chatsarmaveth, a place in Arabia
- מוֹתmôwth · H4193death
- עַזְמָוֶתʻAzmâveth · H5820Azmaveth, the name of three Israelites and of a place in Palestine
- צַלְמָוֶתtsalmâveth · H6757shade of death, i.e. the grave (figuratively, calamity)
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.”
See every passage
- Genesis 21:16, 25:11, 26:18, 27:2, 27:7, 27:10, 50:16
- Exodus 10:17
- Leviticus 11:31, 11:32, 16:1
- Numbers 6:7, 16:29, 23:10, 35:25, 35:28, 35:32
- Deuteronomy 19:6, 21:22, 22:26, 30:15, 30:19, 31:27, 31:29, 33:1
- Joshua 1:1, 2:13, 20:6
- Judges 1:1, 13:7, 16:30
- Ruth 1:17, 2:11
- 1 Samuel 5:11, 15:32, 15:35, 20:3, 20:31, 26:16
- 2 Samuel 1:1, 1:23, 3:33, 6:23, 12:5, 15:21, 19:28, 22:5, 22:6
- 1 Kings 2:26, 11:40, 13:31
- 2 Kings 1:1, 2:21, 3:5, 4:40, 14:17, 15:5
- 1 Chronicles 2:24, 22:5
- 2 Chronicles 22:4, 24:15, 24:17, 25:25, 26:21, 32:33
- Esther 2:7
- Job 3:21, 5:20, 7:15, 18:13, 27:15, 28:22, 30:23, 38:17
- Psalms 6:5, 7:13, 9:13, 13:3, 18:4, 18:5, 22:15, 33:19, 49:14, 49:17, 55:4, 56:13, 68:20, 73:4, 78:50, 89:48, 107:18, 116:3, 116:8, 116:15, 118:18
- Proverbs 2:18, 5:5, 7:27, 8:36, 10:2, 11:4, 11:7, 11:19, 12:28, 13:14, 14:12, 14:27, 14:32, 16:14, 16:25, 18:21, 21:6, 24:11, 26:18
- Ecclesiastes 3:19, 7:1, 7:26, 8:8, 10:1
- Song of Solomon 8:6
- Isaiah 6:1, 14:28, 25:8, 28:15, 28:18, 38:18, 53:9, 53:12
- Jeremiah 8:3, 9:21, 15:2, 18:21, 18:23, 21:8, 26:11, 26:16, 43:11, 52:11, 52:34
- Lamentations 1:20
- Ezekiel 18:23, 18:32, 28:10, 31:14, 33:11
- Hosea 13:14
- Jonah 4:3, 4:8, 4:9
- Habakkuk 2:5
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).