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Strong's #4194 - מָוֶת
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- death, dying, Death (personified), realm of the dead
- death
- death by violence (as a penalty)
- state of death, place of death
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1298) tm (מת MT) AC: Die CO: Man AB: Mortality: The pictograph m is a picture of water representing chaos, the t is a picture of two crossed sticks representing a mark or sign. Combined these mean "chaos mark". The length of time that something exists and ends. (eng: mute; moot - as a dead point; mortal - with an additional r and l; mate - of "check mate" meaning "king is dead")
A) tm (מת MT) AC: ? CO: Man AB: Mortality: A length of time that comes to an end.
Nm) tm (מת MT) - Man: As mortal. KJV (22): man, few, friend, number, person, small - Strongs: H4962 (מֹת)
fm) itm (מתי MTY) - When: An unknown duration of time. KJV (3): when, long - Strongs: H4970 (מָתַי)
J) tfm (מות MWT) AC: Die CO: ? AB: Death: The end of time for what has died.
V) tfm (מות MWT) - Die: KJV (835): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Hophal) die, dead, slay, death - Strongs: H4191 (מוּת)
Nm) tfm (מות MWT) - Death: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (163): death, die, dead, deadly, slay - Strongs: H4192 (מוּת), H4193 (מוֹת), H4194 (מָוֶת)
am) tfmm (ממות MMWT) - Death: KJV (2): death - Strongs: H4463 (מָמוֹת)
if1) etfmt (תמותה TMWTH) - Death: KJV (2): death, die - Strongs: H8546 (תְּמוּתָה)
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Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 death, opposed to life, Deuteronomy 30:15,19; 2 Samuel 15:21; כל האדם׳מ the death of all men (that all go to) Numbers 16:29 (J), as distinguished from violent death; ׳יוֺם מ day of death Genesis 27:2 (J) Judges 13:7; 1 Samuel 15:35 +; ׳שְׁנַת מ Isaiah 6:1; Isaiah 14:28; ׳עד מ Numbers 35:25,28,32; Joshua 20:6 (P), 1 Kings 11:40; ׳לפני מ Genesis 27:7,10; Genesis 50:16 (JE); ׳אחרי מ Genesis 26:18 (J), Genesis 25:11; Leviticus 16:1; Numbers 35:28 (P), Deuteronomy 31:27,29 (D) +; ׳בכור מ Job 18:13 firstborn of death (deadly disease); of flies Ecclesiastes 10:1, unclean animals Leviticus 11:31,32 (P).
2 death by violence as a penalty : ׳מִשְׁמַּט מ + לְ or בְּ person: a case of death to, or in a Prayer of Manasseh , guilty of capital crime Deuteronomy 19:6; Deuteronomy 21:22; Jeremiah 26:11,16; ׳חֵטְא מ Deuteronomy 22:26; ׳מ (י)בנ 1 Samuel 20:31; 1 Samuel 26:16; 2 Samuel 12:5; ׳אישׁ מ 2 Samuel 19:29; ׳אנשׁי מ 1 Kings 2:26; ׳מַלְאֲכֵי מ Proverbs 16:14 messengers of death; במותָיו Isaiah 53:9 in his (martyr-) death (see Br MP 359).
3 state of death or place of death ("" שׁאול) Isaiah 28:15,18; Isaiah 38:18; Hosea 13:14; Habakkuk 2:5; Psalm 6:6; Psalm 49:15; Song of Solomon 8:6; Proverbs 5:5; Proverbs 7:27; ("" אבדון) Job 28:22; ׳שׁערי מ gates of death Psalm 9:14; Psalm 107:18; Job 38:17.
מָוֶת m. constr. מוֹת.
(1) death, sometimes used as personified (Psalms 49:15). כְּלֵי מָוֶת deadly weapons, Psalms 7:14 יָשֵׁן מָוֶת to sleep the sleep of death, Psalms 13:4. בֶּן־מָוֶת 1 Samuel 20:31, 26:16, and אִישׁ־מָוֶת guilty of death, liable to be put to death, 1 Kings 2:26; 2 Samuel 19:29. Poet. for the dead, Isaiah 38:18.
(2) the place or abode of the dead, i.e. Hades, Job 28:22 whence שַׁעֲרֵי־מָוֶת the gates of death, of Hades, Psalms 9:14 חַדְרֵי־מָוֶת the utmost recesses of Hades, Proverbs 7:27.
(3) fatal disease, pestilence, Jeremiah 15:2, 18:21 43:11 Job 27:15, compare θάνατος, Revelation 6:8, 18:8 Ch. מוֹתָא, and Germ. fchwarzer Tod, used of the fatal disease of the middle ages, [which was also called in English the Black Death].
(4) destruction (opp. to חַיִּים good fortune), Proverbs 11:19, 12:28 Isaiah 25:8; Exodus 10:17.-With ה parag. הַמָּֽוְתָה Psalms 116:15 plur. מוֹתִים Ezekiel 28:10; Isaiah 53:9. [But see בָּמָה as to the last passage.]