300 occurrences

'Die' in the Bible

but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said, 'You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.'"

Verse ConceptsDeviousnessSin Producing DeathNot TouchingSin Produces DeathAdam and eveGardensNASB

So God said to Noah, "I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.

Verse ConceptsViolence In The EarthFlesh, Description OfFilling PlacesViolenceDestruction Of All CreaturesThe Universe DestroyedGod KillingPeople EndedGod Killing All PeopleThe End Of The WorldFloods

Your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I'll die.

Verse ConceptsKindnessPeople's Inability To SaveEscaping To MountainsPossibility Of DeathGod Showed His LovingkindnessUnable To Save

But now give back the man's wife. Indeed he is a prophet and he will pray for you; thus you will live. But if you don't give her back, know that you will surely die along with all who belong to you."

Verse ConceptsMediatorAbraham, The Friend Of GodKept Alive By MenDeath As PunishmentReinstating PeoplePraying For SinnersNamed Prophets Of The LordHusband And WifeGiving Back

Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot away; for she thought, "I refuse to watch the child die." So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably.

Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveDepression, SymptomsLove, And The WorldFear, Of DeathNot Seeing PeopleSoliloquyFear Of DeathOthers MourningDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A Motherdistance

"Look," said Esau, "I'm about to die! What use is the birthright to me?"

Verse ConceptsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon Happen

Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then I will eat it so that I may bless you before I die."

Verse ConceptsTasteRequesting FoodSavourinessBefore DeathLoving Other ThingsPeople Blessing

Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat it and bless you in the presence of the Lord before I die.'

Verse ConceptsRequesting FoodSavourinessBefore DeathPeople BlessingMothers Deathgames

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am deeply depressed because of these daughters of Heth. If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!"

Verse ConceptsHope, Results Of Its AbsenceMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningWearinessWeariness Of Life

When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children or I'll die!"

Verse ConceptsBarren WomenJealousyPolygamySistersSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfAnger Of Man, CausePossibility Of DeathThose Jealous Of People

But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are young, and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.

Verse ConceptsTendernessOne DayWeak AnimalsDrivingAnimals SucklingDeath Of CreaturesStrictness

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Live as a widow in your father's house until Shelah my son grows up." For he thought, "I don't want him to die like his brothers." So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

Verse ConceptsSinglenessGrowing UpDaughters In LawPossibility Of DeathActual WidowsWaiting Till Marriage

He then said, "Look, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us so that we may live and not die."

Verse ConceptsVisitingKept Alive By Men

But you must bring your youngest brother to me. Then your words will be verified and you will not die." They did as he said.

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest Child

Then Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. Then we will live and not die -- we and you and our little ones.

Verse ConceptsGoing TogetherKept Alive By Men

If one of us has it, he will die, and the rest of us will become my lord's slaves!"

Verse ConceptsApproval To Kill

We said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.'

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathPeople Abandoning People

When he sees the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.

Verse ConceptsAfflicted To DeathGreyNowhere To Be Found

Then Israel said, "Enough! My son Joseph is still alive! I will go and see him before I die."

Verse ConceptsBefore DeathLiving On

Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive."

Verse ConceptsReadinessParental LoveResigned To DeathLiving OnSeeing People

When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was used up, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, "Give us food! Why should we die before your very eyes because our money has run out?"

Verse ConceptsRequesting FoodPossibility Of DeathIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyShortage Other Than FoodFinancesSaving Money

Why should we die before your very eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we, with our land, will become Pharaoh's slaves. Give us seed that we may live and not die. Then the land will not become desolate."

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenPossibility Of DeathLiteral PlantingGroups Of Slaves

The time for Israel to die approached, so he called for his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,

Verse ConceptsKindnessLoyaltyA Time To DieThighsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenImmigrants

Then Israel said to Joseph, "I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.

Verse ConceptsNearness Of DeathGod Will Be With YouReturning to their landDeath Will Soon Happen

My father made me swear an oath. He said, "I am about to die. Bury me in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan." Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.'"

Verse ConceptsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenThe Cave Of Machpelah

Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die. But God will surely come to you and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Verse ConceptsAssurance, basis ofProperty, LandThe Promised LandGod VisitingNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenDeath Approaching

Fish in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile."'"

Verse ConceptsFishesSmellsSeeking WaterDeath Of Creatures

But the Lord will distinguish between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and nothing will die of all that the Israelites have."'"

Verse ConceptsPlaguesNot DyingGod Differentiating

So now, send instructions to gather your livestock and all your possessions in the fields to a safe place. Every person or animal caught in the field and not brought into the house -- the hail will come down on them, and they will die!"'"

Verse ConceptsHow Death Is InevitableBoth Men And Animals Killed

Pharaoh said to him, "Go from me! Watch out for yourself! Do not appear before me again, for when you see my face you will die!"

Verse ConceptsNot Seeing PeopleKilling Will Happen

and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

Verse ConceptsGrindingSittingThroneDeath Of The FirstbornDeath Of CreaturesGreat And SmallBoth Men And Animals KilledDeath Of Other GroupsThe Death Of BabiesDeath Of A ChildFamily Death

and they said to Moses, "Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodDying In The WildernessPossibility Of DeathWhat Do You Do?

Isn't this what we told you in Egypt, 'Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!'"

Verse ConceptsDying In The WildernessPossibility Of DeathLeave Us AloneServing GroupsDying In The Desert slaveryNot Being Alone

They said to Moses, "You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die."

Verse ConceptsDeath Due To God's PresenceGod Speaking

But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

Verse ConceptsSanctity Of LifePresumptuous PlansDeath Penalty For Killing

"If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die, but must remain in bed,

Verse ConceptsDisputesBatteryBedsBeating PeopleBeing Struck With StonesNot Dyingstriving

The robe is to be on Aaron as he ministers, and his sound will be heard when he enters the Holy Place before the Lord and when he leaves, so that he does not die.

Verse ConceptsMinistry, Nature OfBellsDeath Due To God's Presence

These must be on Aaron and his sons when they enter to the tent of meeting, or when they approach the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they bear no iniquity and die. It is to be a perpetual ordinance for him and for his descendants after him.

Verse ConceptsIncurring GuiltOrdinancesTentsDeath Due To God's Presence

When they enter the tent of meeting, they must wash with water so that they do not die. Also, when they approach the altar to minister by burning incense as an offering made by fire to the Lord,

Verse ConceptsDeath Due To God's PresenceAblution

they must wash their hands and their feet so that they do not die. And this will be a perpetual ordinance for them and for their descendants throughout their generations."

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesDeath Due To God's Presence

You must reside at the entrance of the Meeting Tent day and night for seven days and keep the charge of the Lord so that you will not die, for this is what I have been commanded."

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysPresented At The DoorwayDeath As Punishment

Then Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his other two sons, "Do not dishevel the hair of your heads and do not tear your garments, so that you do not die and so that wrath does not come on the whole congregation. Your brothers, all the house of Israel, are to mourn the burning which the Lord has caused,

Verse ConceptsClothingClothing, Tearing OfHairsCovering HeadsBare HeadsDeath Due To God's PresenceBurning PeopleNot Tearing ClothesDo Not MournGod Will Be AngryMourning The Death Of Others

but you must not go out from the entrance of the Meeting Tent lest you die, for the Lord's anointing oil is on you." So they acted according to the word of Moses.

Verse ConceptsOilPresented At The DoorwayGoing OutsideAnointing PriestsDeath Due To God's Presence

"Do not drink wine or strong drink, you and your sons with you, when you enter into the Meeting Tent, so that you do not die, which is a perpetual statute throughout your generations,

Verse ConceptsAbstinenceAlcoholOrdinancesPriests, Function In Ot TimesWineProhibitionEntering The TabernacleNot Drinking WineStrong DrinkDeath Due To God's PresenceDrinking No WineAlcoholic Beveragesbeeralcoholism

These are the ones that are unclean to you among all the swarming things. Anyone who touches them when they die will be unclean until evening.

Verse ConceptsCorpses Of AnimalsUnclean Until Evening

Also, anything they fall on when they die will become unclean -- any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.

Verse ConceptsDressClean ObjectsUnclean Until Evening

"'Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessHoliness,  Worldly SeparationParticipation, In SinSeparationDeath Due To God's PresencePolluting Holy Places

He must then put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the cloud of incense will cover the atonement plate which is above the ark of the testimony, so that he will not die.

Verse ConceptsSmokeCovering The ArkDeath Due To God's PresencePropitiatory [Mercy Seat]smoking

If a man has sexual intercourse with his aunt, he has exposed his uncle's nakedness; they must bear responsibility for their sin, they will die childless.

Verse ConceptsIncurring GuiltOffspringForbidden Sexual RelationshipsReasons For BarrennessNakedness Uncovered

They must keep my charge so that they do not incur sin on account of it and therefore die because they profane it. I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesRitual LawSin BearerStewardshipDeath Due To God's PresenceI Am The LordMaking People Holy

"When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is ready to journey, then the Kohathites will come to carry them; but they must not touch any holy thing, or they will die. These are the responsibilities of the Kohathites with the tent of meeting.

Verse ConceptsHoliness,  Worldly SeparationTouchCarrying Holy ThingsDeath Due To God's PresenceNot Touching

but in order that they will live and not die when they approach the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons will go in and appoint each man to his service and his responsibility.

Verse ConceptsMan Appointing

But the Kohathites are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die."

Verse ConceptsExclusion

He must not defile himself even for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die, because the separation for his God is on his head.

Verse ConceptsLove Between RelativesNot Honouring Parents

I, the Lord, have said, "I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!"'"

Verse ConceptsDecadenceDying In The WildernessDeath As Punishment

If these men die a natural death, or if they share the fate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.

Verse Conceptsnatural Deathfate

The Lord said to Moses, "Bring Aaron's staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end before me, that they will not die."

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, ContentsArk Of The Covenant, FunctionRebellion, Against GodAaron, Life EventsDeath Due To God's PresenceDo Not GrumbleThings As Signsrebellion

The Israelites said to Moses, "We are bound to die! We perish, we all perish!

Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the Lord will die! Are we all to die?"

Verse ConceptsDanger When God Is Near

They must be responsible to care for you and to care for the entire tabernacle. However, they must not come near the furnishings of the sanctuary and the altar, or both they and you will die.

Verse ConceptsExclusionDeath Due To God's PresenceDanger When God Is Near

No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die.

Verse ConceptsExclusionDeath Due To God's PresenceDanger When God Is Near

And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.'"

Verse ConceptsSacrilegeDeath Due To God's PresenceNot Guilty

Why have you brought up the Lord's community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

Verse ConceptsDying In The WildernessPossibility Of DeathWhy Do You Do This?

Remove Aaron's priestly garments and put them on Eleazar his son, and Aaron will be gathered to his ancestors and will die there."

Verse ConceptsPeople Stripping PeoplePriests GarmentsGathered To One's People

And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food."

Verse ConceptsFaultsBlameComplaintsDying In The WildernessPossibility Of DeathNo FoodBringing Israel Out Of EgyptNo Water For PeopleOthers Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptWhy Do You Do This?ComplainingQuestioning Life

Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let the end of my life be like theirs."

Verse ConceptsUncountableNumerous As DustA Fourth PartDeath Of God's PeopleMany In Israelcredibility

For the Lord had said of them, "They will surely die in the wilderness." And there was not left a single man of them, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Verse ConceptsExclusionDying In The WildernessDeath As PunishmentSole SurvivorsDying In The Desert

And they must stand as your towns of refuge from the avenger in order that the killer may not die until he has stood trial before the community.

Verse ConceptsRedemption, In Everyday LifeStandingMan AvengingDeath Of A Family Member

If he strikes him by throwing a stone large enough that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

Verse ConceptsStonesBeing Struck With StonesJudgement On Murderers

Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon so that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

Verse ConceptsJudgement On Murderers

or with any stone large enough that a man could die, without seeing him, and throws it at him, and he dies, even though he was not his enemy nor sought his harm,

Verse ConceptsBeing Struck With Stones

Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.

Verse ConceptsLack Of DiscernmentImmaturityInexperienceAge Of AccountabilityKnowing Right And WrongRules About Young PeopleThose Who Were IgnorantBabies Going To Heaven

Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the Lord had vowed to them.

Verse ConceptsGenerations30 To 40 YearsDeath As Punishment

So I must die here in this land; I will not cross the Jordan. But you are going over and will possess that good land.

Verse ConceptsCrossing Into The Promised LandHow Death Is Inevitable

But now, why should we die, because this intense fire will consume us! If we keep hearing the voice of the Lord our God we will die!

Verse ConceptsDeath Due To God's PresenceFire Emanating From Godrisk

The person who pays no attention to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict -- that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

Verse Conceptsethics, socialDeath penaltyHigh Priest, In OtIrreverenceJudgesMinistry, Nature OfSin, Nature OfStubbornnessAnarchyDeath Penalty For Violence

This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the Lord your God: "Please do not make us hear the voice of the Lord our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die."

Verse ConceptsAskingDeath Due To God's PresenceFire Emanating From GodRefusing To HearUnhearing

"But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

Verse ConceptsPresumptionIdolatry Consists OfFalse Prophets DenouncedDifferent GodsPenalties For Serving Other GodsDeath Penalty For HeresyFalse Apostles, Prophets And Teachers

The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.

Verse ConceptsTownMan Avenging

Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops, "Who among you has built a new house and not dedicated it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else dedicate it.

Verse ConceptsBattlesAgriculture, RestrictionsPossibility Of DeathDedicationMoving To A New Place

Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it.

Verse ConceptsBattlesEnjoyment, Material ThingsHappinessVineyardPlanting VineyardsCultivationPossibility Of Death

Or who among you has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her."

Verse ConceptsBattlesBetrothalMarriage, Customs ConcerningSinglenessEngagementPossibility Of DeathMarriage Between Man And Woman

But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.

Verse ConceptsCapital Punishment

If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentKidnappingCommerceDeath Penalty For Violencerelaxation

Then the Lord said to Moses, "You are about to die, and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they are going. They will reject me and break my covenant that I have made with them.

Verse ConceptsProstitutionRest, PhysicalSleep, And DeathTrust, Lack OfNearness Of DeathBreaking The CovenantDeath Will Soon HappenDeath

For I know that after I die you will totally corrupt yourselves and turn away from the path I have commanded you to walk. Disaster will confront you in the days to come because you will act wickedly before the Lord, inciting him to anger because of your actions."

Verse ConceptsCorruption, CausesGod's WaysProvoking GodSin, Nature OfKnowing Beforehand

You will die on the mountain that you ascend and join your deceased ancestors, just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and joined his deceased ancestors,

Verse ConceptsAfterlifeGathered To One's People

May Reuben live and not die, and may his people multiply.

Verse ConceptsSeeking LifeMany In Israel

The men said to her, "If you die, may we die too! If you do not report what we've been up to, then, when the Lord hands the land over to us, we will show unswerving allegiance to you."

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsReward, HumanNegotiationDo Not TellExchange Of Individuals

"Look, today I am about to die. You know with all your heart and being that not even one of all the faithful promises the Lord your God made to you is left unfulfilled; every one was realized -- not one promise is unfulfilled!

Verse ConceptsGod, Faithfulness OfConfidence, In God's WordCertaintyAssurance in the life of faithGod's PromisesBible MemorizationPromises To Stand onNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenPromises concerning

The Lord said to him, "You are safe! Do not be afraid! You are not going to die!"

Verse ConceptsNot DyingDeath AvertedDo Not Fear For God Will Helpgideon

But Joash said to all those who confronted him, "Must you fight Baal's battles? Must you rescue him? Whoever takes up his cause will die by morning! If he really is a god, let him fight his own battles! After all, it was his altar that was pulled down."

Manoah said to his wife, "We will certainly die, because we have seen a supernatural being!"

Verse ConceptsGod, Revelation OfDeath Due To God's PresenceThose Who Saw God

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
ארחה 
'aruchah 
Usage: 6

גּוע 
Gava` 
die , give up the ghost , dead , perish , dead
Usage: 24

מוּת 
Muwth 
die , dead , slay , death , surely , kill , dead man , dead body , in no wise ,
Usage: 839

מות 
Maveth 
Usage: 156

נבלה 
N@belah 
Usage: 48

ἀποθνήσκω 
Apothnesko 
die , be dead , be at the point of death +9 , perish , lie a dying , be slain + , vr dead
Usage: 93

ἀπώλεια 
Apoleia 
Usage: 18

θνήσκω 
Thnesko 
be dead , die , dead man , dead
Usage: 13

συναποθνήσκω 
sunapothnesko 
die with , be dead with
Usage: 3

τελευτάω 
Teleutao 
die , be dead , decrease
Usage: 7

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