מוּת
to die
also: kill, have one executed fuller range ↓
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘die’
- Hophal
- The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”). Here: ‘by conspiracy 2 K 11’
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘of killing men in personal combat’
- Polel
- A stem of hollow/geminate roots functioning like the Piel — intensive active.
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms 81 distinct
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 127 times (15%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 67 times (8%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 55 times (7%)
- Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 55 times (7%)
- Verb, Hophal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 49 times (6%)
- Verb, Qal, Infinitive Absolute 49 times (6%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Construct 38 times (5%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 31 times (4%)
+73 more forms (368 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 839 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Page 2 of 4 — showing verses 201–400 of 695 distinct verses where H4191 appears, across 28 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers 57 verses
- Numbers 35:23 יָמ֥וּת וַ/יָּמֹ֑ת Qal impf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;
- Numbers 35:30 לָ/מֽוּת prep + Qal inf.cs Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.
- Numbers 35:31 לָ/מ֑וּת מ֖וֹת יוּמָֽת prep + Qal inf.cs Qal inf.abs Hophal impf 3ms Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 39 verses
- Deuteronomy 2:16 לָ/מ֖וּת prep + Qal inf.cs So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
- Deuteronomy 4:22 מֵת֙ Qal ptcp.act ms but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land.
- Deuteronomy 5:25 נָמ֔וּת וָ/מָֽתְנוּ Qal impf 1cp conj + Qal wpf 1cp Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any more, then we shall die.
- Deuteronomy 9:28 לַ/הֲמִתָ֥/ם prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp lest the land whence you brought us out say, Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.
- Deuteronomy 10:6 מֵ֤ת Qal pf 3ms (The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his place.
- Deuteronomy 13:5 יוּמָ֗ת Hophal impf 3ms That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 13:9 לַ/הֲמִית֑/וֹ prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
- Deuteronomy 13:10 וָ/מֵ֑ת conj + Qal wpf 3ms You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Deuteronomy 14:1 לָ/מֵֽת prep + Qal ptcp.act ms You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
- Deuteronomy 17:5 וָ/מֵֽתוּ conj + Qal wpf 3cp then shall you bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
- Deuteronomy 17:6 יוּמַ֣ת הַ/מֵּ֑ת יוּמַ֔ת Hophal impf 3ms ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms Hophal impf 3ms At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
- Deuteronomy 17:7 לַ/הֲמִית֔/וֹ prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 17:12 וּ/מֵת֙ conj + Qal wpf 3ms The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel.
- Deuteronomy 18:11 הַ/מֵּתִֽים ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
- Deuteronomy 18:16 אָמֽוּת Qal impf 1cs according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.
- Deuteronomy 18:20 וּ/מֵ֖ת conj + Qal wpf 3ms But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.
- Deuteronomy 19:5 וָ/מֵ֑ת conj + Qal wpf 3ms as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:
- Deuteronomy 19:11 וָ/מֵ֑ת conj + Qal wpf 3ms But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him mortally so that he dies, and he flee into one of these cities;
- Deuteronomy 19:12 וָ/מֵֽת conj + Qal wpf 3ms then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
- Deuteronomy 20:5 יָמוּת֙ Qal impf 3ms The officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
- Deuteronomy 20:6 יָמוּת֙ Qal impf 3ms What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used the fruit of it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit of it.
- Deuteronomy 20:7 יָמוּת֙ Qal impf 3ms What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
- Deuteronomy 21:21 וָ/מֵ֔ת conj + Qal wpf 3ms All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
- Deuteronomy 21:22 וְ/הוּמָ֑ת conj + Hophal wpf 3ms If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree;
- Deuteronomy 22:21 וָ/מֵ֔תָה conj + Qal wpf 3fs then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 22:22 וּ/מֵ֨תוּ֙ conj + Qal wpf 3cp If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put away the evil from Israel.
- Deuteronomy 22:24 וָ/מֵתוּ֒ conj + Qal wpf 3cp then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 22:25 וּ/מֵ֗ת conj + Qal wpf 3ms But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die:
- Deuteronomy 24:3 יָמוּת֙ Qal impf 3ms If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;
- Deuteronomy 24:7 וּ/מֵת֙ conj + Qal wpf 3ms If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 24:16 יוּמְת֤וּ יוּמְת֣וּ יוּמָֽתוּ Hophal impf 3mp Hophal impf 3mp Hophal impf 3mp The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
- Deuteronomy 25:5 וּ/מֵ֨ת הַ/מֵּ֛ת conj + Qal wpf 3ms ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
- Deuteronomy 25:6 הַ/מֵּ֑ת ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 26:14 לְ/מֵ֑ת prep + Qal ptcp.act ms I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away of it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done according to all that you have commanded me.
- Deuteronomy 31:14 לָ/מוּת֒ prep + Qal inf.cs Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a charge. Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.
- Deuteronomy 32:39 אָמִ֣ית Hiphil impf 1cs See now that I, even I, am he, There is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; There is none who can deliver out of my hand.
- Deuteronomy 32:50 וּ/מֻ֗ת מֵ֞ת conj + Qal impv 2ms Qal pf 3ms and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:
- Deuteronomy 33:6 יָמֹ֑ת Qal juss 3ms Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few.
- Deuteronomy 34:5 וַ/יָּ֨מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Yahweh.
Joshua 10 verses
- Joshua 1:2 מֵ֑ת Qal pf 3ms Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you, and all this people, to the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
- Joshua 1:18 יוּמָ֑ת Hophal impf 3ms Whoever he be who shall rebel against your commandment, and shall not listen to your words in all that you command him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of good courage.
- Joshua 2:14 לָ/מ֔וּת prep + Qal inf.cs The men said to her, Our life for yours, if you don't utter this our business; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.
- Joshua 5:4 מֵ֤תוּ Qal pf 3cp This is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: all the people who came forth out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came forth out of Egypt.
- Joshua 10:11 וַ/יָּמֻ֑תוּ מֵ֨תוּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Qal pf 3cp It happened, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, that Yahweh cast down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died: they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.
- Joshua 10:26 וַ/יְמִיתֵ֔/ם conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp Afterward Joshua struck them, and put them to death, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging on the trees until the evening.
- Joshua 11:17 וַ/יְמִיתֵֽ/ם conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and struck them, and put them to death.
- Joshua 20:9 יָמ֗וּת Qal impf 3ms These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person unwittingly might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
- Joshua 24:29 וַ/יָּ֛מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
- Joshua 24:33 מֵ֑ת Qal pf 3ms Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill-country of Ephraim.
Judges 33 verses
- Judges 1:7 וַ/יָּ֥מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
- Judges 2:8 וַ/יָּ֛מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
- Judges 2:19 בְּ/מ֣וֹת prep + n c ms cs But it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn't cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.
- Judges 2:21 וַ/יָּמֹֽת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;
- Judges 3:11 וַ/יָּ֖מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The land had rest forty years. Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
- Judges 3:25 מֵֽת Qal ptcp.act ms They waited until they were ashamed; and, behold, he didn't open the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, and opened [them], and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
- Judges 4:1 מֵֽת Qal pf 3ms The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, when Ehud was dead.
- Judges 4:21 וַ/יָּמֹֽת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.
- Judges 4:22 מֵ֔ת Qal ptcp.act ms Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek. He came to her; and, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent-pin was in his temples.
- Judges 5:18 לָ/מ֖וּת prep + Qal inf.cs Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the death, Naphtali, on the high places of the field.
- Judges 6:23 תָּמֽוּת Qal impf 2ms Yahweh said to him, Peace be to you; don't be afraid: you shall not die.
- Judges 6:30 וְ/יָמֹ֑ת conj + Qal juss 3ms Then the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it.
- Judges 6:31 יוּמַ֖ת Hophal impf 3ms Joash said to all who stood against him, Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? he who will contend for him, let him be put to death while [it is yet] morning: if he be a god, let him contend for himself, because one has broken down his altar.
- Judges 8:32 וַ/יָּ֛מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
- Judges 8:33 מֵ֣ת Qal pf 3ms It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
- Judges 9:49 וַ/יָּמֻ֜תוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp All the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire on them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
- Judges 9:54 וּ/מ֣וֹתְתֵ֔/נִי וַ/יָּמֹֽת conj + Polel impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cs conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, and said to him, Draw your sword, and kill me, that men not say of me, A woman killed him. His young man thrust him through, and he died.
- Judges 9:55 מֵ֣ת Qal pf 3ms When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place.
- Judges 10:2 וַ/יָּ֖מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
- Judges 10:5 וַ/יָּ֣מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.
- Judges 12:7 וַ/יָּ֗מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.
- Judges 12:10 וַ/יָּ֣מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.
- Judges 12:12 וַ/יָּ֖מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
- Judges 12:15 וַ/יָּ֛מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.
- Judges 13:22 מ֣וֹת נָמ֑וּת Qal inf.abs Qal impf 1cp Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
- Judges 13:23 לַ/הֲמִיתֵ֨/נוּ֙ prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 1cp But his wife said to him, If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.
- Judges 15:13 וְ/הָמֵ֖ת נְמִיתֶ֑/ךָ conj + Hiphil inf.abs Hiphil impf 1cp + sfx pers 2ms They spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand: but surely we will not kill you. They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
- Judges 15:18 אָמ֣וּת Qal impf 1cs He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh, and said, You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised.
- Judges 16:16 לָ/מֽוּת prep + Qal inf.cs It happened, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed to death.
- Judges 16:30 תָּמ֣וֹת הַ/מֵּתִים֙ הֵמִ֣ית הֵמִ֖ית Qal impf 3fs ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp Hiphil pf 3ms Hiphil pf 3ms Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.
- Judges 20:5 וַ/תָּמֹֽת conj + Qal wimpf 3fs The men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about me by night; me they thought to have slain, and my concubine they forced, and she is dead.
- Judges 20:13 וּ/נְמִיתֵ֔/ם conj + Hiphil coh 1cp + sfx pers 3mp Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers the children of Israel.
- Judges 21:5 מ֥וֹת יוּמָֽת Qal inf.abs Hophal impf 3ms The children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn't come up in the assembly to Yahweh? For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
Ruth 7 verses
- Ruth 1:3 וַ/יָּ֥מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons.
- Ruth 1:5 וַ/יָּמ֥וּתוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Mahlon and Chilion died both of them; and the woman was left of her two children and of her husband.
- Ruth 1:8 הַ/מֵּתִ֖ים ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother's house: Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me.
- Ruth 1:17 תָּמ֨וּתִי֙ אָמ֔וּת Qal impf 2fs Qal impf 1cs where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried: Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me."
- Ruth 2:20 הַ/מֵּתִ֑ים ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of Yahweh, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. Naomi said to her, The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.
- Ruth 4:5 הַ/מֵּת֙ הַ/מֵּ֖ת ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms Then said Boaz, What day you buy the field of the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.
- Ruth 4:10 הַ/מֵּת֙ הַ/מֵּ֛ת ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place: you are witnesses this day.
1 Samuel 52 verses
- 1 Samuel 2:6 מֵמִ֣ית Hiphil ptcp.act ms Yahweh kills, and makes alive: He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
- 1 Samuel 2:25 לַ/הֲמִיתָֽ/ם prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh was minded to kill them.
- 1 Samuel 2:33 יָמ֥וּתוּ Qal impf 3mp The man of yours, [whom] I shall not cut off from my altar, [shall be] to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.
- 1 Samuel 2:34 יָמ֥וּתוּ Qal impf 3mp This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.
- 1 Samuel 4:11 מֵ֔תוּ Qal pf 3cp The ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
- 1 Samuel 4:17 מֵ֗תוּ Qal pf 3cp He who brought the news answered, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
- 1 Samuel 4:18 וַ/יָּמֹ֔ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened, when he made mention of the ark of God, that [Eli] fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
- 1 Samuel 4:19 וּ/מֵ֥ת conj + Qal pf 3ms His daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the news that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth; for her pains came on her.
- 1 Samuel 4:20 מוּתָ֗/הּ Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, Don't be afraid; for you have brought forth a son. But she didn't answer, neither did she regard it.
- 1 Samuel 5:10 לַ/הֲמִיתֵ֖/נִי prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 1cs So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. It happened, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people.
- 1 Samuel 5:11 יָמִ֥ית Hiphil impf 3ms They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people. For there was a deadly confusion throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
- 1 Samuel 5:12 מֵ֔תוּ Qal pf 3cp The men who didn't die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
- 1 Samuel 11:12 וּ/נְמִיתֵֽ/ם conj + Hiphil impf 1cp + sfx pers 3mp The people said to Samuel, Who is he who said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.
- 1 Samuel 11:13 יוּמַ֥ת Hophal impf 3ms Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day; for today Yahweh has worked deliverance in Israel.
- 1 Samuel 12:19 נָמ֑וּת Qal coh 1cp All the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins [this] evil, to ask us a king.
- 1 Samuel 14:13 מְמוֹתֵ֥ת Polel ptcp.act ms Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his armor bearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armor bearer killed them after him.
- 1 Samuel 14:39 מ֣וֹת יָמ֑וּת Qal inf.abs Qal impf 3ms For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.
- 1 Samuel 14:43 אָמֽוּת Qal impf 1cs Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done. Jonathan told him, and said, I did certainly taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and, behold, I must die.
- 1 Samuel 14:44 מ֥וֹת תָּמ֖וּת Qal inf.abs Qal impf 2ms Saul said, God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan.
- 1 Samuel 14:45 יָמוּת֙ מֵֽת Qal impf 3ms Qal pf 3ms The people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: as Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die.
- 1 Samuel 15:3 וְ/הֵמַתָּ֞ה conj + Hiphil wpf 2ms Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
- 1 Samuel 17:35 וַ/הֲמִיתִּֽי/ו conj + Hiphil wpf 1cs + sfx pers 3ms I went out after him, and struck him, and delivered it out of his mouth; and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and struck him, and killed him.
- 1 Samuel 17:50 וַ/יְמִיתֵ֑/הוּ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.
- 1 Samuel 17:51 וַ/יְמֹ֣תְתֵ֔/הוּ מֵ֥ת conj + Polel wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms Qal pf 3ms Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath of it, and killed him, and cut off his head therewith. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
- 1 Samuel 19:1 לְ/הָמִ֖ית prep + Hiphil inf.cs Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.
- 1 Samuel 19:2 לַ/הֲמִיתֶ֑/ךָ prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 2ms Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill you: now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself:
- 1 Samuel 19:5 לְ/הָמִ֥ית prep + Hiphil inf.cs for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel: you saw it, and did rejoice; why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?
- 1 Samuel 19:6 יוּמָֽת Hophal impf 3ms Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.
- 1 Samuel 19:11 וְ/לַ/הֲמִית֖/וֹ מוּמָֽת conj + prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms Hophal ptcp.pass ms Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be slain.
- 1 Samuel 19:15 לַ/הֲמִתֽ/וֹ prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.
- 1 Samuel 19:17 אֲמִיתֵֽ/ךְ Hiphil impf 1cs + sfx pers 2fs Saul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he is escaped? Michal answered Saul, He said to me, Let me go; why should I kill you?
- 1 Samuel 20:2 תָמוּת֒ Qal impf 2ms He said to him, "Far from it; you shall not die: behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so."
- 1 Samuel 20:8 הֲמִיתֵ֣/נִי Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cs Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you: but if there be in me iniquity, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?
- 1 Samuel 20:14 אָמֽוּת Qal impf 1cs You shall not only while yet I live show me the loving kindness of Yahweh, that I not die;
- 1 Samuel 20:32 יוּמַ֖ת Hophal impf 3ms Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"
- 1 Samuel 20:33 לְ/הָמִ֥ית prep + Hiphil inf.cs Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
- 1 Samuel 22:16 מ֥וֹת תָּמ֖וּת Qal inf.abs Qal impf 2ms The king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house.
- 1 Samuel 22:17 וְ/הָמִ֣יתוּ conj + Hiphil impv 2mp The king said to the guard who stood about him, Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me. But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 22:18 וַ/יָּ֣מֶת conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms The king said to Doeg, Turn you, and fall on the priests. Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell on the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod.
- 1 Samuel 24:14 מֵ֔ת Qal ptcp.act ms After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom do you pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
- 1 Samuel 25:1 וַ/יָּ֣מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
- 1 Samuel 25:37 וַ/יָּ֤מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
- 1 Samuel 25:38 וַ/יָּמֹֽת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened about ten days after, that Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.
- 1 Samuel 25:39 מֵ֣ת Qal pf 3ms When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil: and the evil-doing of Nabal has Yahweh returned on his own head. David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him as wife.
- 1 Samuel 26:10 וָ/מֵ֔ת conj + Qal pf 3ms David said, As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
- 1 Samuel 28:3 מֵ֔ת Qal pf 3ms Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had put away those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
- 1 Samuel 28:9 לַ/הֲמִיתֵֽ/נִי prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 1cs The woman said to him, Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: why then lay you a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
- 1 Samuel 30:2 הֵמִ֖יתוּ Hiphil pf 3cp and had taken captive the women [and all] who were therein, both small and great: they didn't kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.
- 1 Samuel 30:15 תְּמִיתֵ֗/נִי Hiphil impf 2ms + sfx pers 1cs David said to him, Will you bring me down to this troop? He said, Swear to me by God, that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.
- 1 Samuel 31:5 מֵ֣ת וַ/יָּ֥מָת Qal pf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.
- 1 Samuel 31:6 וַ/יָּ֣מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.
- 1 Samuel 31:7 מֵ֖תוּ Qal pf 3cp When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
2 Samuel 61 verses
- 2 Samuel 1:4 וַ/יָּמֻ֔תוּ מֵֽתוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Qal pf 3cp David said to him, How went the matter? Please tell me. He answered, The people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.
- 2 Samuel 1:5 מֵ֥ת Qal pf 3ms David said to the young man who told him, How know you that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?
- 2 Samuel 1:9 וּ/מֹ֣תְתֵ֔/נִי conj + Polel impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cs He said to me, Stand, I pray you, beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.
- 2 Samuel 1:10 וַ/אֲמֹ֣תְתֵ֔/הוּ conj + Polel wimpf 1cs + sfx pers 3ms So I stood beside him, and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was on his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord.
- 2 Samuel 1:15 וַ/יָּמֹֽת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall on him. He struck him, so that he died.
- 2 Samuel 1:16 מֹתַ֖תִּי Polel pf 1cs David said to him, Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have slain Yahweh's anointed.
- 2 Samuel 2:7 מֵ֖ת Qal pf 3ms Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be you valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.
- 2 Samuel 2:23 וַ/יָּ֣מָת וַ/יָּמֹ֖ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms However he refused to turn aside: therefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it happened, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
- 2 Samuel 2:31 מֵֽתוּ Qal pf 3cp But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred sixty men died.
- 2 Samuel 3:27 וַ/יָּ֕מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
- 2 Samuel 3:30 הֵמִ֜ית Hiphil pf 3ms So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
- 2 Samuel 3:33 יָמ֥וּת Qal impf 3ms The king lamented for Abner, and said, Should Abner die as a fool dies?
- 2 Samuel 3:37 לְ/הָמִ֖ית prep + Hiphil inf.cs So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.
- 2 Samuel 4:1 מֵ֤ת Qal pf 3ms When [Ish-bosheth], Saul's son, heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
- 2 Samuel 4:7 וַ/יְמִתֻ֔/הוּ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp + sfx pers 3ms Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they struck him, and killed him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.
- 2 Samuel 4:10 מֵ֣ת Qal pf 3ms when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
- 2 Samuel 6:7 וַ/יָּ֣מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
- 2 Samuel 8:2 לְ/הָמִ֔ית prep + Hiphil inf.cs He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.
- 2 Samuel 9:8 הַ/מֵּ֖ת ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms He did obeisance, and said, "What is your servant, that you should look on such a dead dog as I am?"
- 2 Samuel 10:1 וַ/יָּ֕מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Samuel 10:18 וַ/יָּ֥מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians [the men of] seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their host, so that he died there.
- 2 Samuel 11:15 וָ/מֵֽת conj + Qal wpf 3ms He wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire you from him, that he may be struck, and die.
- 2 Samuel 11:17 וַ/יָּ֕מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people, even of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
- 2 Samuel 11:21 וַ/יָּ֣מָת מֵֽת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 3ms who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn't a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then shall you say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'"
- 2 Samuel 11:24 וַ/יָּמ֖וּתוּ מֵֽת conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Qal pf 3ms The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
- 2 Samuel 11:26 מֵ֖ת Qal pf 3ms When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.
- 2 Samuel 12:13 תָמֽוּת Qal impf 2ms David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh." Nathan said to David, "Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
- 2 Samuel 12:14 מ֥וֹת יָמֽוּת Qal inf.abs Qal impf 3ms However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh's enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die."
- 2 Samuel 12:18 וַ/יָּ֣מָת מֵ֣ת מֵ֥ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 3ms Qal pf 3ms It happened on the seventh day, that the child died. The servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn't listen to our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead!
- 2 Samuel 12:19 מֵ֣ת הֲ/מֵ֥ת מֵֽת Qal pf 3ms ptcl inter + Qal pf 3ms Qal pf 3ms But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, Is the child dead? They said, He is dead.
- 2 Samuel 12:21 מֵ֣ת Qal pf 3ms Then said his servants to him, What thing is this that you have done? you did fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, you did rise and eat bread.
- 2 Samuel 12:23 מֵ֗ת Qal pf 3ms But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.
- 2 Samuel 13:28 וַ/הֲמִתֶּ֥ם conj + Hiphil wpf 2mp Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark you now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, Smite Amnon, then kill him; don't be afraid; haven't I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
- 2 Samuel 13:32 הֵמִ֔יתוּ מֵ֑ת Hiphil pf 3cp Qal pf 3ms Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother, answered, Don't let my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
- 2 Samuel 13:33 מֵ֑תוּ מֵֽת Qal pf 3cp Qal pf 3ms Now therefore don't let my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead; for Amnon only is dead.
- 2 Samuel 13:39 מֵֽת Qal pf 3ms [the soul of] king David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
- 2 Samuel 14:2 מֵֽת Qal ptcp.act ms Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, Please, and don't anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has a long time mourned for the dead:
- 2 Samuel 14:5 וַ/יָּ֥מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
- 2 Samuel 14:6 וַ/יָּ֥מֶת conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms Your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.
- 2 Samuel 14:7 וּ/נְמִתֵ֨/הוּ֙ conj + Hiphil impf 1cp + sfx pers 3ms Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.
- 2 Samuel 14:14 מ֣וֹת נָמ֔וּת Qal inf.abs Qal impf 1cp For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
- 2 Samuel 14:32 וֶ/הֱמִתָֽ/נִי conj + Hiphil wpf 3ms + sfx pers 1cs Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, Why am I come from Geshur? it were better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be iniquity in me, let him kill me.
- 2 Samuel 16:9 הַ/מֵּת֙ ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head."
- 2 Samuel 17:23 וַ/יָּ֕מָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got him home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
- 2 Samuel 18:3 יָמֻ֤תוּ Qal impf 3mp But the people said, You shall not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.
- 2 Samuel 18:15 וַ/יְמִיתֻֽ/הוּ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp + sfx pers 3ms Ten young men who bore Joab's armor compassed about and struck Absalom, and killed him.
- 2 Samuel 18:20 מֵֽת Qal pf 3ms Joab said to him, You shall not be the bearer of news this day, but you shall bear news another day; but this day you shall bear no news, because the king's son is dead.
- 2 Samuel 18:33 מוּתִ/י֙ Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 1cs The king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!
- 2 Samuel 19:6 מֵתִ֔ים Qal ptcp.act mp in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared this day, that princes and servants are nothing to you: for this day I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased you well.
- 2 Samuel 19:10 מֵ֖ת Qal pf 3ms Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don't you speak a word of bringing the king back?
- 2 Samuel 19:21 יוּמַ֖ת Hophal impf 3ms But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, Shall Shimei not be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh's anointed?
- 2 Samuel 19:22 י֤וּמַת Hophal impf 3ms David said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be adversaries to me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for don't I know that I am this day king over Israel?
- 2 Samuel 19:23 תָמ֑וּת Qal impf 2ms The king said to Shimei, You shall not die. The king swore to him.
- 2 Samuel 19:37 וְ/אָמֻ֣ת conj + Qal impf 1cs Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.
- 2 Samuel 20:10 וַ/יָּמֹ֑ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he struck him therewith in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
- 2 Samuel 20:19 לְ/הָמִ֨ית prep + Hiphil inf.cs I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel: you seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why will you swallow up the inheritance of Yahweh?
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The Hebrew verb מות centers on the idea of “to die.” Where the King James Version keeps “slay,” modern versions use “died” — see the renderings breakdown. It appears 695 verses across 28 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its most common vocabulary. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 2:17. Different stems carry different senses — BDB groups them under 4 stems, among them Qal and Hiphil. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4191 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 695
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 695 distinct verses.
- 28 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 28 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #54
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 54 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 695 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 695 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 353 verses · 51%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 242 verses · 35%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 100 verses · 14%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Died 97×, Die 57×, Dead 49×
- American Standard Version: Died 97×, Die 48×, Dead 37×
- Berean Standard Bible: Died 98×, Die 65×, Dead 44×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Died 97×, Die 85×, He died 57×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4191 across 833 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 174 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4191 across 831 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 227 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4191 across 771 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 141 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 69 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4191 across 995 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 112 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
25 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Hophal (the passive of Hiphil) and one or more reduplicated stems (the Pōlēl/Pilpēl type), which for hollow or geminate roots behave much like Piel — often intensive or iterative.
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 25 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. מֵת Gn 42:38 +; 3 fs. מֵ֫תָה Gn 35:18 +; 2 ms. מַתָּה Ez 28:8; 1 s. וָמַ֑תִּי Gn 19:19; 3 mpl. מֵ֫תוּ Gn 7:22 +; 1 pl. מַתְנוּ Nu 14:2 2 K 7:4; מָ֑תְנוּ Nu 14:9 +; Impf. יָמוּת Gn 38:11 +; יָמֹ֑ת Dt 33:6 +; וַיָּ֫מָת Gn 11:28 +; 1 s. אָמוּת Gn 26:9 +; אָמֻת 2 S 19:38; אָמוּ֫תָה Gn 46:30; 3 mpl. יָמ֫וּתוּ 1 S 2:23 +; יְמֻתוּן Nu 16:29; 3 fpl. תְּמוּתֶ֫נָה Ez 13:19 (Ges§ 72, 5) +; Imv. מֻת Dt 32:50 Jb 2:9; Inf. abs. מוֹת Gn 2:17 +; cstr. מוּת Gn 25:32 +; sf. מוּתִי 2 S 19:1; מֻתָן 2 S 20:3, etc.; Pt. מֵת Gn 20:3 +; sf. מֵתִי Gn 23:4 +; fs. מֵתָה Gn 30:1 Zc 11:9; pl. מֵתִים Ex 12:33 +; cstr. מֵתֵי Is 22:2 +; sf. מֵתֶיךָ Is 26:19;— e.g. Genesis 42:38
- 1. die, of natural or other causes:
- a. (1) of man, †וַיִּגְוַע וַיָּמָת and he expired and died Gn 25:8 (+ בְּשֵׂיבָה טוֹבָה, v. infr.), v 17 35:29 (P); †וַיָּמָת וַיִּקָּבֵר Ju 10:2, 5; 8:32; 12:7, 10, 12, 15 2 S 17:23; †וימת וימלך תַּחְתָּיו and he died and—reigned in his stead Gn 36:33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 (P), 2 S 10:1 = 1 Ch 19:1, 2 K 1:17; 8:15; 13:24 1 Ch 1:44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50; וימת בְּשֵׂיבָה טוֹבָה and he died in a good old age 1 Ch 29:28 (+ Gn 25:8, v. supr.); as the result of smiting הכה Ex 21:18, 20, 22 (E); + במלחמה Dt 20:5, 6, 7 2 S 19:11; בַּחֶרֶב Je 11:22; ברעב v 22; מפני הרעב 38:9; בְּדֶבֶר 21:6; באבן Nu 35:17, 23 (P); †בַּמַּגֵּפָה Nu 14:37; 17:14; 25:9 (P). (2) fig. of wisdom, עִמָּכֶם תָּמוּת חָכְמָה Jb 12:2; of courage, וַיָּמָת לִבּוֹ בְּקִרְבּוֹ and his heart died within him 1 S 25:37.—2 S 2:31 del. מֵ֑תוּ We Dr Kit Bu, cf. 𝔊. e.g. Genesis 25:8
- b. of animals Lv 11:39; cattle Gn 33:13 (J), fish Ex 7:18 (E), frogs Ex 8:9 (J), lion Ec 9:4, worm Is 66:24; כֶּלֶב מֵת, dead dog (in proverb) 1 S 24:15 2 S 9:8; 16:9. e.g. Leviticus 11:39
- c. a tree Jb 14:8. e.g. Job 14:8
- d. זִבְחֵי מֵתִים ψ 106:28 sacrifices to the dead (idols). e.g. Psalms 106:28
- 2. die as a penalty = be put to death:
- a. by human authority Gn 42:20 Ex 10:28; 21:14 (E), Gn 44:9 Jos 2:14 (J), Lv 20:20 (H), Nu 35:12, 30(×2) (P), especially D, Dt 17:5, 6; 18:20; 19:12; 22:22, 25; 24:7 Ju 6:30 1 S 14:43, 45(×2); 2 Sa 19:24 Je 38:24; מות יָמוּת, die = be put to a violent death (> AV RV surely die), 1 S 14:39, 44; 22:16; 1 K 2:37, 42 (all Judaic), Je 26:8, all of capital punishment; 2 K 8:10 (Ephr.) of assassination; מוֹת יוּמַת be put to a violent death, in the codes of Ex 21:12, 15, 16, 17; 22:18 (E), Lv 20:2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 27; 24:16, 17 (H), Ex 31:14, 15 Nu 15:35; 35:16, 17, 18, 21, 31 Lv 27:29 (P; never in D; D uses verb, either Qal or Hiph., without inf. abs.); it is used in narratives Gn 26:11(J), Ex 19:12 (E), Ju 21:5. מ׳ is preceded by רגם Nu 15:36 (P), Dt 21:21 1 K 12:18 = 2 Ch 10:18, 1 K 21:13; סקל Dt 13:11 17:5; 22:21, 24 1 K 21:10, 13, 14, 15; פגע 1 K 2:25, 46; רמס 2 K 7:17, 20; בְּיַד גֹּאֵל Jos 20:9 (P). e.g. Genesis 42:20
- b. inflicted by God, Gn 20:3, 7; Jos 10:11 (E), Gn 3:3; 38:11; Ex 11:5; 12:33 (J), 28:35; 30:20(×2) Lv 8:35; 10:2, 6, 7, 9; 16:1, 2, 13 Nu 3:4; 4:19, 20; 14:35; 17:14, 25, 28; 18:3, 32; 26:11, 61 (P), Dt 5:22(×2); 18:16 Ju 6:23 1 S 5:12; 12:19; 25:17, 38, 39; 2 S 6:7; 12:13; 1 K 19:4; 2 K 14:6 = 2 Ch 25:4, 1 Ch 24:2; 2 Ch 13:20; 2 K 19:35 = Is 37:36, Ez 3:20; 18:4, 20, 21, 28; 33:15; מוֹת יָמוּת Gn 2:17; 3:4 (J), 20:7 (E), Ju 13:21, 22; 2 S 12:14; 14:14; 2 K 1:4, 6, 16 (all Judaic), Nu 26:65 (P), Ez 3:18; 33:8, 14; מוֹת יוּמַת 18:13, ביד יהוה Ex 16:3 (P); בחטא Lv 22:9 (H), Nu 27:3 (P), 2 K 14:6 = 2 Ch 25:4; לשׂאת חטא למות Nu 18:22 (P); בחטאת Ez 3:20; 18:24; בטמאה Lv 15:21 (P); בעון Je 31:30; Ez 3:18, 19; 18:17, 18; 33:8, 9; לא ישׂאו עון ומתו Ex 28:43 Nu 4:15 (P); בעול Ez 18:26; 33:13, 18; על עול 18:26; במעל 1 Ch 10:13. e.g. Genesis 20:3
- c. die, perish, of a nation by divine judgment, Moab Am 2:2, Ephraim Ho 13:1; בית ישׂראל Ez 18:31; 33:1. e.g. Amos 2:2
- d. die prematurely, by neglect of wise moral conduct Pr 5:23; 10:21; 15:10; 19:16; 23:13; Ec 7:17.— e.g. Proverbs 5:23
- On (לַבֵּן) עַל־מוּת ψ 9:1; 48:15 v. עַלְמָה sub II. עלם. e.g. Psalms 9:1
Poʿlel
- Pf. ms. sf. מוֹתְתַנִי Je 20:17; 1 s. מֹתַתִּי 2 S 1:16; Impf. 3 ms. sf. יְמֹתְתֵהוּ 1 S 17:51; 3 fs. תְּמוֹתֵת ψ 34:22; 1 s. sf. אֲמֹתְתֵהוּ 2 S 1:10; Imv. sf. מוֹתְתֵנִי Ju 9:54; מֹתְתֵנִי 2 S 1:9; inf. מוֹתֵת ψ 109:16; Pt. מְמוֹתֵת 1 S 14:13;—kill, put to death, despatch (intens.), abs. 1 S 14:13, elsewhere c. acc. Ju 9:54; 1 S 17:51; 2 S 1:9, 10, 16; Je 20:17; ψ 34:22; 109:16. e.g. Jeremiah 20:17
Hiphil
- Pf. 3 ms. הֵמִית Ju 16:30 +; sf. וֶהֱמִתָ֑נִי 2 S 14:32; הֱמִיתָם Je 41:8; 3 fs. sf. הֱמִיתָ֑תְהוּ 2 Ch 22:11; 2 ms. הֵמַתָּה Nu 14:15; 1 s. sf. הֲמִיתִּיו (read הֲמִתִּיו) 1 S 17:35; 3 mpl. הֵמִיתוּ 1 S 30:2 +, etc.; Impf. יָמִית Nu 35:19 +; וַיָּ֫מֶת Gn 38:10 +; sf. יְמִיתֵהוּ 1 K 13:24 +; יְמִתֶנּוּ Nu 35:19 +; Imv. sf. הֲמִיתֵנִי 1 S 20:8; pl. הָמִיתוּ 1 S 22:17; Inf. abs. הָמֵת 2 K 11:15 +; cstr. הָמִית Lv 20:4 +; Pt. מֵמִית 1 S 2:6; pl. מְמִיתִים 2 K 17:26; מְמִתִים Je 26:15 Jb 33:22;—kill, put to death: e.g. Judges 16:30
- 1. abs. Jb 9:23, elsewhere c. acc., subj. man, e.g. Job 9:23
- a. of killing men in personal combat, or in war, often preceded by הכּה smite Jos 10:26; 11:17; 17:50 +; of destroying a city 2 S 20:19 (‖ השׁחית v 20). e.g. Joshua 10:26
- b. by authority, espec. in capital punishment Ex 1:16 (E), Lv 20:4 (H), Nu 35:19(×2), 21 (P), Dt 13:10; 17:7 Ju 20:13 1 S 11:12; 28:9 2 S 14:7, 32; 21:4 1 K 2:26, 34; 11:40; 19:17(×2) 2 K 14:6 = 2 Ch 25:4; Is 11:4; Je 26:15, 21, 24; 38:15, 16, 25; Est 4:11; בַּחֶרֶב 1 K 1:51; 2:8; 2 K 11:20 = 2 Ch 23:21; הָמֵת יָמִית Ju 15:13 1 K 3:26, 27; Je 26:19; 38:15. e.g. Exodus 1:16
- 2. subj. God, by inflicting penalty, abs. Dt 32:39; 1 S 2:6; 2 K 5:7, elsewhere c. acc. Gn 18:25; 38:7, 10; Ex 4:24; Nu 14:15 (J), Dt 9:28; Ju 13:23; 1 S 2:25; 5:10, 11; 1 Ch 2:3; 10:14; Is 65:15; Ho 9:16; ברעב Is 14:30; בצמא Ho 2:5; of killing fish ψ 105:29; מְמִיתִים Jb 33:22 executioners, angels of death. e.g. Deuteronomy 32:39
- 3. of animals killing men, e.g. ox Ex 21:29 (E), lion 1 K 13:24, 26; 2 K 17:26. e.g. Exodus 21:29
- 4. bring to a premature death Pr 19:18; 21:25. e.g. Proverbs 19:18
Hophal
- Pf. הוּמָ֑ת 2 K 11:2 +; 3 mpl. הֻמְתוּ 2 S 21:9; Impf. יוּמַת Lv 20:10 +; יוּמָ֑ת Gn 26:11 +; Pt. מוּמָת 1 S 19:11, pl. מוּמָתִים 2 K 11:2 (Qr), 2 Ch 22:11;—be killed, put to death: e.g. 2 Kings 11:2
- 1. by conspiracy 2 K 11:2, 2 = 2 Ch 22:11, 2 K 11:8, 15, 16 2 Ch 23:7, 14. e.g. 2 Kings 11:2
- 2. by capital punishment Ex 21:29 (E), 35:2 Nu 1:51; 3;10, 38; 18:7 (P), Lv 19:20; 24:16, 21 (H), Dt 13:6; 17:6(×2); 21:22; 24:16(×3) = 2 K 14:6(×3), Jos 1:18 (all D) Ju 6:31; 1 S 11:13; 19:6, 11; 20:32; 2 S 19:22, 23; 21:9; 1 K 2:24; 2 Ch 15:13; Je 38:4, and the phrase מוֹת יוּמת (see Qal 2 a). e.g. Exodus 21:29
- 3. by divine infliction, in the phrase מות יוּמת (see Qal 2 b).
- 4. die prematurely Pr 19:16. e.g. Proverbs 19:16
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. die (NH id. (rare); Assyrian mâtu DlHWB 395, Arabic مَاتَ, Ethiopic ሞተ, Aramaic מוּת, מִית, ܡܺܝܬ; Nab. מות EutNab 14, 6; Zinj. מת DHMSendsch.Gloss.);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מוֹת
- (b. h.) to die. Gitt. VII, 3, a. fr. אם מַתִּי if I should die. Gen. R. s. 9 (play on מְאֹד, Gen. I, 31) והנה טזב מוֹת behold, it is good to die.—Kidd. 72ᵇ כשמֵת ר׳ וכ׳ when R … died. M. Kat. 28ᵃ מת פתאום if one dies suddenly. Sabb. 55ᵇ בחטאם מֵתוּ died for their sin. Tam. 32ᵃ (in Chald. dict.) מה יעביד אינש ויָמוֹת וכ׳ what must man do in order to die? Let him feed himself, v. הָיָה. Shebu. 18ᵃ, v. וָטוּב; a. v. fr.—V. מֵת. e.g. Genesis 1:31
- to put to death; to cause death. Snh. 53ᵃ אם אי אתה יכול לַהֲמִיתוֹ … שאתה מֵמִיתוֹ וכ׳ that if you cannot put him to death in the manner legally prescribed, you must execute judgment by whatever means you can. Ib. 56ᵇ דברים … מְמִיתִין עליהן acts on which a Jewish court passes a sentence of death. Tam. l. c. (in Chald. dict.) מה יעבד אינש … יָמִית עצמו what must man do in order to live?… Let him starve himself (his appetites). Ber. 63ᵇ אין ד"ת … שממית עצמו עליה the words of the Law remain only with him who kills himself (denies himself all enjoyments) for its sake (with play on Num. XIX, 14); a. v. fr. e.g. Numbers 19:14
- to be put to death. Keth. 37ᵇ מוּמָתִין בסייף those put to death by the sword. Snh. 55ᵇ מומתין על ידה are put to death on her account; a. fr.
מוּת
- v. מִית
מָוֶת
- preced.) death. Ab. II, 4 אל … עד יום מוֹתְךָ do not trust thyself (that thou wilt not sin) until thy dying day; Ber. 29ᵃ. Ib. 17ᵃ סוף אדם לַמָּ׳ man’s final destiny in death; a. v. fr.—מלאך המ׳ (abbrev. מה"מ) the angel of death. Ab. Zar. 5ᵃ. Gen. R. s. 9 והנה טוב מאד זה מה"מ ‘and behold, it was very good’ (Gen. I, 31) this refers to the angel of death; a. fr. e.g. Genesis 1:31
מוֹת ²
- Targ. Ex. X, 17. Targ. Jer. XI, 19 סמא דמ׳ poison; a. fr.—Targ. Y. Gen. XXXV, 18 fem.—Sabb. 88ᵇ סמא דמ׳, v. supra; Yoma 72ᵇ.—Yeb. 63ᵃ מידי דקשי ממ׳ something harder than death. M. Kat. 28ᵇ, v. חֲבוּלְיָא; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 372 distinct written forms H4191 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 312 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4191, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 672 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 695 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 2:17
- Exodus 1:6
- Leviticus 8:35
- Numbers 1:51
- Deuteronomy 2:16
- Joshua 1:2
- Judges 1:7
- Ruth 1:3
- 1 Samuel 2:6
- 2 Samuel 1:4
- 1 Kings 1:51
- 2 Kings 1:4
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.