Strong's #1478: gava` (pronounced gaw-vah')

a primitive root; to breathe out, i.e. (by implication) expire:--die, be dead, give up the ghost, perish.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gâva‛

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

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 24 times:

 

Genesis 6:17: "heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die."
Genesis 7:21: "And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle,"
Genesis 25:8: "Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered"
Genesis 25:17: "and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people."
Genesis 35:29: "And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full"
Genesis 49:33: "his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people."
Numbers 17:12: "Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish."
Numbers 17:13: "the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?"
Numbers 20:3: "and spoke, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!"
Numbers 20:3: "Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!"
Numbers 20:29: "saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty"
Joshua 22:20: "of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity."
Job 3:11: "died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?"
Job 10:18: "Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen"
Job 13:19: "me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost."
Job 14:10: "dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where"
Job 27:5: "that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from"
Job 29:18: "Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand."
Job 34:15: "All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust."
Job 36:12: "not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge."
Psalms 88:15: "I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted."
Psalms 104:29: "they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust."
Lamentations 1:19: "deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat"
Zechariah 13:8: "two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left"