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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:

Proverbs 8:36: "all they that hate me love death."
Proverbs 10:2: "nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death."
Proverbs 11:4: "of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death."
Proverbs 11:7: "When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth."
Proverbs 11:19: "tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death."
Proverbs 12:28: "is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death."
Proverbs 13:14: "of life, to depart from the snares of death."
Proverbs 14:12: "a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."
Proverbs 14:27: "of life, to depart from the snares of death."
Proverbs 14:32: "in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death."
Proverbs 16:14: "The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify"
Proverbs 16:25: "unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."
Proverbs 18:21: " Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit"
Proverbs 21:6: "is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death."
Proverbs 24:11: "thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;"
Proverbs 26:18: "man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,"
Ecclesiastes 3:19: "even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all"
Ecclesiastes 3:19: "them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath;"
Ecclesiastes 7:1: "than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth."
Ecclesiastes 7:26: "And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose"
Ecclesiastes 8:8: "neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither"
Ecclesiastes 10:1: " Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savor: so doth a little folly"
Song of Solomon 8:6: "for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals"
Isaiah 6:1: "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting"
Isaiah 14:28: "In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden."
Isaiah 25:8: "He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off"
Isaiah 28:15: "We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement;"
Isaiah 28:18: "And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not"
Isaiah 38:18: "the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot"
Isaiah 53:9: "the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence,"
Isaiah 53:12: "because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with"
Jeremiah 8:3: " And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of"
Jeremiah 9:21: "For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children"
Jeremiah 15:2: "them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword,"
Jeremiah 15:2: "saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword;"
Jeremiah 18:21: "and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle."
Jeremiah 18:23: "all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither"
Jeremiah 21:8: "the way of life, and the way of death."
Jeremiah 26:11: "This man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this"
Jeremiah 26:16: "man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name"
Jeremiah 43:11: "the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity;"
Jeremiah 43:11: "of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such"
Jeremiah 52:11: "him in prison till the day of his death."
Jeremiah 52:34: "every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days"
Lamentations 1:20: "abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death."
Ezekiel 18:23: "Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not"
Ezekiel 18:32: "For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD:"
Ezekiel 28:10: "Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken"
Ezekiel 31:14: "water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth,"
Ezekiel 33:11: "the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but"









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