1) death, dying, Death (personified), realm of the dead 1a) death 1b) death by violence (as a penalty) 1c) state of death, place of death Aramaic equivalent: mot (מוֹת "death" H4193)
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H4194 — מָ֫וֶת
ma.vet · death · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 21:16 · בְּמ֣וֹתThen she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.Genesis 25:11 · מ֣וֹתAfter Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.Genesis 26:18 · מ֣וֹתIsaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.Genesis 27:2 · מוֹתִֽי׃“Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.Genesis 27:7 · מוֹתִֽי׃‘Bring me some game and prepare me a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.’Genesis 27:10 · מוֹתֽוֹ׃Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”Genesis 50:16 · מוֹת֖וֹSo they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Before he died, your father commanded,Exodus 10:17 · הַמָּ֥וֶתNow please forgive my sin once more and appeal to the LORD your God, that He may remove this death from me.”Leviticus 11:31 · בְּמֹתָ֖םThese animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.Leviticus 11:32 · בְּמֹתָ֜םWhen one of them dies and falls on something, that article becomes unclean; any article of wood, clothing, leather, sackcloth, or any implement used for work must be rinsed with water and will remain unclean until evening; then it will be clean.Leviticus 16:1 · מ֔וֹתNow the LORD spoke to Moses after the death of two of Aaron’s sons when they approached the presence of the LORD.Numbers 6:7 · בְּמֹתָ֑םEven if his father or mother or brother or sister should die, he is not to defile himself, because the symbol of consecration to his God is upon his head.Numbers 16:29 · כְּמ֤וֹתIf these men die a natural death, or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.Numbers 23:10 · מ֣וֹתWho can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”Numbers 35:25 · מוֹת֙The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.Numbers 35:28 · מ֖וֹת · מוֹת֙because the manslayer must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may he return to the land he owns.Numbers 35:32 · מ֖וֹתNor should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to a city of refuge and allow him to return and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.Deuteronomy 19:6 · מָ֔וֶתOtherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in a rage, overtake him if the distance is great, and strike him dead though he did not deserve to die, since he did not intend any harm.Deuteronomy 21:22 · מָ֖וֶתIf a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,Deuteronomy 22:26 · מָ֑וֶתDo nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.Deuteronomy 30:15 · הַמָּ֖וֶתSee, I have set before you today life and prosperity, as well as death and disaster.Deuteronomy 30:19 · וְהַמָּ֙וֶת֙I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,Deuteronomy 31:27 · מוֹתִֽי׃For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!Deuteronomy 31:29 · מוֹתִי֙For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. And in the days to come, disaster will befall you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger by the work of your hands.”Deuteronomy 33:1 · מוֹתֽוֹ׃This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.Joshua 1:1 · מ֥וֹתNow after the death of His servant Moses, the LORD spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying,Joshua 2:13 · מִמָּֽוֶת׃that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will deliver us from death.”Joshua 20:6 · מוֹת֙He is to stay in that city until he stands trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest serving at that time. Then the manslayer may return to his own home in the city from which he fled.”Judges 1:1 · מ֣וֹתAfter the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the LORD, “Who will be the first to go up and fight for us against the Canaanites?”Judges 13:7 · מוֹתֽוֹ׃ פBut he said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now, therefore, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.’”Judges 16:30 · בְּמוֹת֔וֹSamson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people in it. So in his death he killed more than he had killed in his life.Ruth 1:17 · הַמָּ֔וֶתWhere you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.”Ruth 2:11 · מ֣וֹתBoaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.1 Samuel 5:11 · מָ֙וֶת֙Then the Ekronites called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was very heavy upon it.1 Samuel 15:32 · הַמָּֽוֶת׃ סThen Samuel said, “Bring me Agag king of the Amalekites.” Agag came to him cheerfully, for he thought, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”1 Samuel 15:35 · מוֹת֔וֹAnd to the day of his death, Samuel never again visited Saul. Samuel mourned for Saul, and the LORD regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.1 Samuel 20:3 · הַמָּֽוֶת׃But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”1 Samuel 20:31 · מָ֖וֶתFor as long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Now send for him and bring him to me, for he must surely die!”1 Samuel 26:16 · מָ֙וֶת֙This thing you have done is not good. As surely as the LORD lives, all of you deserve to die, since you did not protect your lord, the LORD’s anointed. Now look around. Where are the king’s spear and water jug that were by his head?”2 Samuel 1:1 · מ֣וֹתAfter the death of Saul, David returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days.2 Samuel 1:23 · וּבְמוֹתָ֖םSaul and Jonathan, beloved and delightful in life, were not divided in death. They were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions.2 Samuel 3:33 · הַכְּמ֥וֹתAnd the king sang this lament for Abner: “Should Abner die the death of a fool?2 Samuel 6:23 · מוֹתָֽהּ׃ פAnd Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.2 Samuel 12:5 · מָ֔וֶתDavid burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!2 Samuel 15:21 · לְמָ֙וֶת֙But Ittai answered the king, “As surely as the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be!”2 Samuel 19:28 · מָ֙וֶת֙For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”2 Samuel 22:5 · מָ֑וֶתFor the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.2 Samuel 22:6 · מָֽוֶת׃The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.1 Kings 2:26 · מָ֖וֶתThen the king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death at this time, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”1 Kings 11:40 · מ֥וֹתSolomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, where he remained until the death of Solomon.1 Kings 13:31 · בְּמוֹתִי֙After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,2 Kings 1:1 · מ֥וֹתAfter the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.2 Kings 2:21 · מָ֥וֶתand Elisha went out to the spring, cast the salt into it, and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘I have healed this water. No longer will it cause death or unfruitfulness.’”2 Kings 3:5 · כְּמ֣וֹתBut after the death of Ahab, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.2 Kings 4:40 · מָ֤וֶתAnd they poured it out for the men to eat, but when they tasted the stew they cried out, “There is death in the pot, O man of God!” And they could not eat it.2 Kings 14:17 · מ֔וֹתAmaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.2 Kings 15:5 · מֹת֔וֹAnd the LORD afflicted the king with leprosy until the day he died, so that he lived in a separate house while his son Jotham had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.1 Chronicles 2:24 · מוֹת־After Hezron died in Caleb-ephrathah, his wife Abijah bore to him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.1 Chronicles 22:5 · מוֹתֽוֹ׃And David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent—famous and glorious throughout all lands. Therefore I must make preparations for it.” So David made lavish preparations before his death.2 Chronicles 22:4 · מ֥וֹתAnd he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for to his destruction they were his counselors after the death of his father.2 Chronicles 24:15 · בְּמוֹתֽוֹ׃When Jehoiada was old and full of years, he died at the age of 130.2 Chronicles 24:17 · מוֹת֙After the death of Jehoiada, however, the officials of Judah came and paid homage to the king, and he listened to them.2 Chronicles 25:25 · מ֔וֹתAmaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.2 Chronicles 26:21 · מוֹת֗וֹSo King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He lived in isolation, leprous and cut off from the house of the LORD, while his son Jotham had charge of the royal palace and governed the people of the land.2 Chronicles 32:33 · בְמוֹת֔וֹAnd Hezekiah rested with his fathers and was buried in the upper tombs of David’s descendants. All Judah and the people of Jerusalem paid him honor at his death. And his son Manasseh reigned in his place.Esther 2:7 · וּבְמ֤וֹתAnd Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter.Job 3:21 · לַמָּ֣וֶתwho long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,Job 5:20 · מִמָּ֑וֶתIn famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.Job 7:15 · מָ֝֗וֶתso that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.Job 18:13 · מָֽוֶת׃It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.Job 27:15 · בַּמָּ֣וֶתHis survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.Job 28:22 · וָ֭מָוֶתAbaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’Job 30:23 · מָ֣וֶתYes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.Job 38:17 · מָ֑וֶתHave the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?Psalm 6:5 · בַּמָּ֣וֶתFor there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?Psalm 7:13 · מָ֑וֶתHe has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.Psalm 9:13 · מָֽוֶת׃Be merciful to me, O LORD; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death,Psalm 13:3 · הַמָּֽוֶת׃Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,Psalm 18:4 · מָ֑וֶתThe cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.Psalm 18:5 · מָֽוֶת׃The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.Psalm 22:15 · מָ֥וֶתMy strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.Psalm 33:19 · מִמָּ֣וֶתto deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.Psalm 49:14 · מָ֤וֶתLike sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.Psalm 49:17 · בְ֭מוֹתוֹFor when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.Psalm 55:4 · מָ֝֗וֶתMy heart pounds within me, and the terrors of death assail me.Psalm 56:13 · מִמָּוֶת֮For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.Psalm 68:20 · לַ֝מָּ֗וֶתOur God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death.Psalm 73:4 · לְמוֹתָ֗םThey have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed.Psalm 78:50 · מִמָּ֣וֶתHe cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.Psalm 89:48 · מָּ֑וֶתWhat man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? SelahPsalm 107:18 · מָֽוֶת׃They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.Psalm 116:3 · מָ֗וֶתThe ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.Psalm 116:8 · מִ֫מָּ֥וֶתFor You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.Psalm 116:15 · הַ֝מָּ֗וְתָהPrecious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.Psalm 118:18 · וְ֝לַמָּ֗וֶתThe LORD disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death.Proverbs 2:18 · מָ֣וֶתFor her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.Proverbs 5:5 · מָ֑וֶתHer feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.Proverbs 7:27 · מָֽוֶת׃ פHer house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.Proverbs 8:36 · מָֽוֶת׃ פBut he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”Proverbs 10:2 · מִמָּֽוֶת׃Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.Proverbs 11:4 · מִמָּֽוֶת׃Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.Proverbs 11:7 · בְּמ֤וֹתWhen the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.Proverbs 11:19 · לְמוֹתֽוֹ׃Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death.Proverbs 12:28 · מָֽוֶת׃There is life in the path of righteousness, but another path leads to death.Proverbs 13:14 · מָֽוֶת׃The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares of death.Proverbs 14:12 · מָֽוֶת׃There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.Proverbs 14:27 · מָֽוֶת׃The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.Proverbs 14:32 · בְמוֹת֣וֹThe wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.Proverbs 16:14 · מָ֑וֶתThe wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.Proverbs 16:25 · מָֽוֶת׃There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.Proverbs 18:21 · מָ֣וֶתLife and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.Proverbs 21:6 · מָֽוֶת׃Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.Proverbs 24:11 · לַמָּ֑וֶתRescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.Proverbs 26:18 · וָמָֽוֶת׃Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows,Ecclesiastes 3:19 · כְּמ֥וֹת · מ֣וֹתFor the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.Ecclesiastes 7:1 · הַמָּ֔וֶתA good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.Ecclesiastes 7:26 · מִמָּ֗וֶתAnd I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.Ecclesiastes 8:8 · הַמָּ֔וֶתAs no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.Ecclesiastes 10:1 · מָ֔וֶתAs dead flies bring a stench to the perfumer’s oil, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.Song of Solomon 8:6 · כַמָּ֙וֶת֙Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.Isaiah 6:1 · מוֹת֙In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.Isaiah 14:28 · מ֖וֹתIn the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:Isaiah 25:8 · הַמָּ֙וֶת֙He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.Isaiah 28:15 · מָ֔וֶתFor you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”Isaiah 28:18 · מָ֔וֶתYour covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.Isaiah 38:18 · מָ֣וֶתFor Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.Isaiah 53:9 · בְּמֹתָ֑יוHe was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.Isaiah 53:12 · לַמָּ֙וֶת֙Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.Jeremiah 8:3 · מָ֙וֶת֙And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.Jeremiah 9:21 · מָ֙וֶת֙For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.Jeremiah 15:2 · לַמָּ֤וֶת · לַמָּ֙וֶת֙If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’Jeremiah 18:21 · מָ֑וֶתTherefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.Jeremiah 18:23 · לַמָּ֔וֶתBut You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.Jeremiah 21:8 · הַמָּֽוֶת׃Furthermore, you are to tell this people that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.Jeremiah 26:11 · מָ֙וֶת֙Then the priests and prophets said to the officials and all the people, “This man is worthy of death, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears!”Jeremiah 26:16 · מָ֔וֶתThen the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God!”Jeremiah 43:11 · לַמָּ֣וֶת · לַמָּ֗וֶתHe will come and strike down the land of Egypt, bringing death to those destined for death, captivity to those destined for captivity, and the sword to those destined for the sword.Jeremiah 52:11 · מוֹתֽוֹ׃Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.Jeremiah 52:34 · מוֹת֑וֹAnd the king of Babylon provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life, until the day of his death.Lamentations 1:20 · כַּמָּֽוֶת׃ סSee, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.Hosea 13:14 · מִמָּ֖וֶת · מָ֗וֶתI will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.Jonah 4:3 · מוֹתִ֖יAnd now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”Jonah 4:8 · מוֹתִ֖יAs the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”Jonah 4:9 · מָֽוֶת׃Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”Habakkuk 2:5 · כַמָּ֙וֶת֙and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.