Death
מוֹתStrong’s H4194mot
Appears in 150 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mot is the Hebrew word usually translated “death”, “death of” and “death his”. It appears in 150 verses of the Old Testament.
“And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.”
Meaning
- Death
How it's translated
- death 57
- death of 24
- death his 10
- from death 9
- death my 6
- to death 6
- for death 5
- in death his 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 21
- Proverbs 19
- Jeremiah 11
- 2 Samuel 9
- Deuteronomy 8
- Job 8
27 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 25:11And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.
- Genesis 26:18And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
- Genesis 27:2And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
- Genesis 27:7Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
- Genesis 27:10And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
- Genesis 50:16And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,
All 150 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מוֹת mot · death
death Aramaic of ma.vet (מָ֫וֶת "death" H4194)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “death” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEATH, noun
deth.
- That state of a being, animal or vegetable, but more particularly of an animal, in which there is a total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions, when the organs have not only ceased to act, but have lost the susceptibility of renewed action.
- The state of the dead; as the gates of death Job 38:17
- The manner of dying.“Thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas” Ezekiel 28:8“Let me die the death of the righteous” Numbers 23:10
- The image of mortality represented by a skeleton; as a death's head.
All definitions
- Murder; as a man of death
- Cause of death“O thou man of God, there is death in the pot” 2 Kings 4:40
- Destroyer or agent of death; as, he will be the death of his poor father.
- In poetry, the means or instrument of death; as an arrow is called the feathered death; a ball, a leaden death
- In theology, perpetual separation from God, and eternal torments; called the second death Revelation 2:10
- Separation or alienation of the soul from God; a being under the dominion of sin, and destitute of grace or divine life; called spiritual death
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.