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Death

תְּמוּתָהStrong’s H8546

temutah (te-mu-tah)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Temutah is the Hebrew word usually translated “death”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;”
Psalms 79:11 KJV
Meaning
  1. Death
How it's translated
  • death 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 2

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

תְּמוּתָה temutah · death

death

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.

  1. 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.
  2. The state of the dead; as the gates of death Job 38:17
  3. 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
  4. The image of mortality represented by a skeleton; as a death's head.
All definitions
  1. Murder; as a man of death
  2. Cause of death“O thou man of God, there is death in the pot” 2 Kings 4:40
  3. Destroyer or agent of death; as, he will be the death of his poor father.
  4. In poetry, the means or instrument of death; as an arrow is called the feathered death; a ball, a leaden death
  5. In theology, perpetual separation from God, and eternal torments; called the second death Revelation 2:10
  6. 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.