To die
גָּוַעStrong’s H1478gava (ga-va)
Appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gava is the Hebrew word usually translated “expired”, “may expire” and “expire”. It appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.”
Meaning
- To expire, die, perish, give up the ghost, yield up the ghost, be dead, be ready to die(Qal) to expire, die, be about to die
How it's translated
- and he expired 5
- and i may expire 2
- i will expire 2
- will die 1
- and it died 1
- we will die 1
- to die 1
- we had died 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 8
- Genesis 6
- Numbers 4
- Psalms 2
- Joshua 1
- Lamentations 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 6:17And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
- Genesis 7:21And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
- Genesis 25:8Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
- Genesis 25:17And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.
- Genesis 35:29And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
- Genesis 49:33And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Hebrew dictionary
גָּוַע gava · to die
1) to expire, die, perish, give up the ghost, yield up the ghost, be dead, be ready to die 1a) (Qal) to expire, die, be about to die
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “die” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DIE, verb intransitive
[See Day.]
- To be deprived of respiration, of the circulation of blood, and other bodily functions, and rendered incapable of resuscitation, as animals, either by natural decay, by disease, or by violence; to cease to live; to expire; to decease; to perish; and with respect to man, to depart from this world.“All the first born in the land of Egypt shall die” Exodus 11:5“The fish that is in the river shall die” Exodus 7:18
- To be punished with death; to lose life for a crime, or for the sake of another.“Christ died for our sins” 1 Corinthians 15:3
- To come to an end; to cease; to be lost; to perish or come to nothing; as, let the secret die in your own breast.
- To sink; to faint.“His heart died withing him, and he became as a stone” 1 Samuel 25:37
All definitions and other forms of “die”
- To languish with pleasure or tenderness; followed by away.
- To languish with affection.
- To recede as sound, and become less distinct; to become less and less; or to vanish from the sight, or disappear gradually.
- To lose vegetable life; to wither; to perish; as plants or seeds.
- To become vapid or spiritless, as liquors; mostly used in the participle; as the cider or beer is dead.
- In theology, to perish everlastingly; to suffer divine wrath and punishment in the future world.
- To become indifferent to, or to cease to be under the power of; as, to die to sin.
- To endure great danger and distress.“I die daily” 1 Corinthians 15:31
DIE, noun
plural dice.
- A small cube, marked on its faces with numbers from one to six, used in gaming, by being thrown from a box.
- Any cubic body; a flat tablet.
- Hazard; chance.
DIE, noun
plural Dies. A stamp used in coining money, in founderies, etc.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.