מָוֶת
mâveth · maw'-veth
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
Lexicon
Derivation: from H4191 (מוּת);
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
- death (natural or violent)
- concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades)
- figuratively, pestilence, ruin
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (be) dead(-ly), death, die(-d).
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to fasten and establish › the mark, the covenant sign
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to fasten and establish of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מָוֶת above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
155 occurrences · 155 OT · 0 NT · 80 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of death24 · 21%
- the death15 · 13%
- from death8 · 7%
- death7 · 6%
- of his death6 · 5%
- and death6 · 5%
- unto death5 · 4%
- to death4 · 4%
- until the death3 · 3%
- my death3 · 3%
- was dead3 · 3%
- his death3 · 3%
- died3 · 3%
- to die3 · 3%
- when he died2 · 2%
- in the death2 · 2%
- with death2 · 2%
- in his death2 · 2%
- for death2 · 2%
- dead2 · 2%
- dieth2 · 2%
- for me to die2 · 2%
- at his death2 · 2%
- he died1 · 1%
- of my death1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.