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Strong's #4194: maveth (pronounced maw'-veth)

from 4191; death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin:--(be) dead((-ly)), death, die(-d).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mâveth

1) death, dying, Death (personified), realm of the dead

1a) death

1b) death by violence (as a penalty)

1c) state of death, place of death

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H4191



Usage:

This word is used 156 times:

1 Kings 2:26: "for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death,"
1 Kings 11:40: "and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon."
2 Kings 1:1: "rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab."
2 Kings 2:21: "be from thence any more death or barren"
2 Kings 3:5: "But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel."
2 Kings 4:40: "cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not"
2 Kings 14:17: "of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king"
2 Kings 15:5: "a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham"
1 Chronicles 2:24: "And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bore"
1 Chronicles 22:5: "prepared abundantly before his death."
2 Chronicles 22:4: "were his counselors after the death of his father to his destruction."
2 Chronicles 24:15: "and thirty years old was he when he died."
2 Chronicles 24:17: "Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king."
2 Chronicles 25:25: "of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king"
2 Chronicles 26:21: "a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper;"
2 Chronicles 32:33: "of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead."
Esther 2:7: "was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took"
Job 3:21: "Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;"
Job 5:20: "In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword."
Job 7:15: "So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life."
Job 18:13: "the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength."
Job 27:15: "Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep."
Job 28:22: "Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears."
Job 30:23: "For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living."
Job 38:17: "Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?"
Psalms 6:5: "For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?"
Psalms 7:13: "He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors."
Psalms 9:13: "which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:"
Psalms 13:3: "mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;"
Psalms 18:4: "The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid."
Psalms 18:5: "of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented"
Psalms 22:15: "to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death."
Psalms 33:19: "To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine."
Psalms 49:14: "Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;"
Psalms 49:17: "For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend"
Psalms 55:4: "is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon"
Psalms 55:15: " Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness"
Psalms 56:13: "For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling,"
Psalms 68:20: "and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death."
Psalms 73:4: "For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm."
Psalms 78:50: "he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;"
Psalms 89:48: "is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand"
Psalms 107:18: "and they draw near unto the gates of death."
Psalms 116:3: "The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold upon me: I found trouble"
Psalms 116:8: "For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from"
Psalms 116:15: "Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints."
Psalms 118:18: "hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death."
Proverbs 2:18: "her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead."
Proverbs 5:5: "Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell."
Proverbs 7:27: "going down to the chambers of death."









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