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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Second Death
• Death
Scofield Reference Index
• Death
Thompson Chain Reference
• Shadow of Death
• Penalty, Death
• Life-Death
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The Topic Concordance
• Death
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Worthy of Death
• Death; Dying
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Death, Spiritual
• Death, Natural
• Death, Eternal
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Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• Death
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Death
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Sin Unto Death
• Second Death
• Death, Mortality
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Charles Buck Dictionary
• Fear of Death
• Death
CARM Theological Dictionary
• Death
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Eternal Death
• Death
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Preachers: Speak After Death
• Preacher: Should Be Faithful Unto Death
• Faith: a Death Grip
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Holman Bible Dictionary
• Second Death
• Death, Second
• Death of Christ
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Death
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• State After Death
• Life and Death
• Death of Christ
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King James Dictionary
• Death
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Death
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Now Christ, the Conqueror of Death
• Happy Death Confraternity, the
• Fathers of a Good Death
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Death
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Death, Death-Stroke
• Death
Wilson's Bible Types
• Death
Webster Dictionary
• Deathfulness
• Deathful
• Death's-Herb
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Boiling to Death
• Burning to Death
• Death
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Body of Death
• Death
• Death, Body of
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Death
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Christ, Death of.
• Dance of Death
• Death
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Black Death
• Dance of Death
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Dance of Death
• Preparation for Death
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Anniversary of Death
• Black Death
• Death (Statistics)
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Lexicons
• ܡܳܐܰܬ݂
• ܡܳܐܰܬ݂
• ܡܰܘܬ݁ܳܐ
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Girdleston's OT Synonyms
• Death
• Destruction, Death, Hell
• ἀναίρεσις
• ἀναιρέω
• ἀπάγω
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• אֶבֶן
• בּוֹר בַּיִר, בּוֹר, הַסִּרָה , בּוֹר־עָשָׁן
• דָּם
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Is taken in Scripture, first, for the separation of body and soul, the first death, Genesis 25:11; secondly, for alienation from God, and exposure to his wrath, 1 John 3:14 , etc.; thirdly, for the second death, that of eternal damnation. Death was the penalty affixed to Adam's transgression, Genesis 2:17 3:19; and all his posterity are transgressors, and share the curse inflicted upon him. Romans 5:12-21 1 Corinthians 15:1-58 .

Natural death is described as a yielding up of the breath, or spirit, expiring, Psalm 104:29; as a return to our original dust, Genesis 3:19 Ecclesiastes 12:7; as the soul's laying off the body, its clothing, 2 Corinthians 5:3,4 , or the tent in which it has dwelt, 2 Corinthians 5:1 2 Peter 1:13,14 . The death of the believer is a departure, a going home, a falling asleep in Jesus, Philippians 1:23 Matthew 26:24 John 11:11 .

The term death is also sometimes used for any great calamity, or imminent danger threatening life, as persecution, 2 Corinthians 1:10 . "The gates of death," Job 38:17 , signify the unseen world occupied by departed spirits. Death is also figuratively used to denote the insensibility of Christians to the temptations of a sinful world, Colossians 3:3 .