331 occurrences

'Dead' in the Bible

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.

Verse ConceptsBad DreamsDreamsDreams, Examples OfNightDeath As PunishmentTransferring WivesDirect Communication Through Dreams

And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

Verse ConceptsCorpses Of Other PeoplePeople Getting Up

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimPilgrims, Examples OfUnseenReckoned As ForeignersThe Cave Of Machpelah

Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.

Verse ConceptsPrincesAbraham, In SocietySepulchresConsentThe Cave Of MachpelahBurying places

And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.

Verse ConceptsCaves For BuryingIn Men's PresencePeople Giving Other Things

And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.

Verse ConceptsThe Cave Of MachpelahIn Men's Presence

My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

Verse ConceptsReal EstateUnimportant Things

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Experience OfGrave, TheLove, And The WorldUnhappinessParental LoveAfflicted To DeathGreySole SurvivorsDeath Of Unnamed Individuals

And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofJacob, Life And Character OfPrejudiceSole SurvivorsDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsThose Who LovedExamples Of Love For Children

And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

Verse ConceptsGrudgesResentment, Against PeopleResponseRepaying Evil For EvilNamed People Angry With Others

And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill

And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

Verse ConceptsHardness Of HeartNot DyingObstinate Individuals

And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfDeath Is UniversalPeople Getting Up

And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.

Verse ConceptsDeath Due To God's PresenceHurrying Others On

Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.

Verse ConceptsGod, The LordCivil LibertySeashoresDeath Of Other Groups

The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.

Verse ConceptsCorpses Of AnimalsIndeterminate Sums Of Money

And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.

Verse ConceptsCorpses Of AnimalsHalf Of BodiesHalf Of PossessionsHurt And Betrayalhurting

Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.

Verse ConceptsEquality Of PunishmentStriking To DeathCorpses Of AnimalsUnpremeditated

These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.

Verse ConceptsCorpses Of AnimalsUnclean Until Evening

And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.

Verse ConceptsDressClean ObjectsUnclean Until Evening

And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:

Verse ConceptsHoliness,  Worldly SeparationPriests, Function In Ot TimesPollutionsPollution ForbiddenDeath Of A Family MemberGrandmothers

What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;

Verse ConceptsLeprosySkinSemenDischargesRules About Corpses

Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:

Verse ConceptsHealingLeprosyQuarantiningQuarantineDischarges

All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadRules About Corpses

And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.

Verse ConceptsExpiationPriests Atoning

And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

Verse ConceptsRules About Corpses

And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?

Verse ConceptsRules About Corpses

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.

Verse ConceptsJourneyRules About Corpses

Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.

Verse ConceptsAbortionCondition Of The Body

And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

Verse ConceptsMediatorCessationNot DyingDeath PreventedThings Stopping

Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

Verse ConceptsHoliness,  Worldly SeparationRitual WashingSprinklingContaminationSprinkling WaterTouching Unclean ThingsPolluting Holy PlacesThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Verse ConceptsDead bodiesGrave, TheTombsCemeterySeven DaysTouching Unclean ThingsRules About CorpsesSeven Days For Legal Purposesnatural Death

And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:

Verse ConceptsSprinkling Water

And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

Verse ConceptsLossMonthMourningOne MonthMourning The Death Of Others

So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

Verse ConceptsWar

And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.

Verse ConceptsTouchPigsTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean SpiritsEating Forbidden FoodUnclean Animalspork

If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

Verse Conceptsethics, personalBrothersLoyaltyStrangersLack Of SonsBrothers in lawDutyDeath Of A Family MemberRelationships With BoyfriendDeath Of A ChildMarriage Between Man And WomanRaising ChildrenWomen's RolesRelationships And DatingFamily Deathculture

And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

Verse ConceptsNames Blotted OutSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.

Verse ConceptsNecromancyPollution ForbiddenNot MourningPaying Attention To GodSpiritism AvoidedTithes And Offering

Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftRivers And StreamsDivine DirectionCrossing Into The Promised LandServant Leadershipbridges

And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.

Verse ConceptsHabitsSin, Nature OfSelf WillBowing To False GodsDifferent GodsDeath Of Office HoldersGod's People Sinning

And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.

Verse ConceptsKeys

And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.

Verse ConceptsGod's People Sinning

And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.

Verse ConceptsPeople Made KnownThose Looking For People

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

Verse ConceptsPeople Tumbling

And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.

Verse ConceptsBaal Worship, Historygideon

And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.

Verse ConceptsGroups going home

And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfTypes Of ChristResigned To DeathMercy Killings

And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.

Verse ConceptsLewdnessAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleDeath Of Unnamed Individuals

And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.

Verse ConceptsKindnessMothers Love For Her ChildrenDeath Of A Mother

And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.

Verse ConceptsKindnessKinsman redeemerRedemption, In Everyday LifeUnkindnessLife And DeathMay God Bless!

Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningPoverty, Attitudes Towards

Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningOffspringPurchasingTownWidowsNamed Wives

And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

Verse ConceptsLossPriesthood, In OtThe Ark Moved AroundIsrael Fleeing

And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.

Verse ConceptsPregnancyDaughters In LawOther Wives

Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.

Verse ConceptsSwordsDisfigurementChampionsBeheadingIndividuals RunningSkullsPeoples Who Fledheroes

After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.

Verse ConceptsdogsInsectsPersecution, Nature OfFleasI Am Unimportantbugsrelentless

And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.

Verse ConceptsDivine RestraintsHeadsRestraintGod Makes Evil ReboundGod VindicatesBless The Lord!

Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentProphets, Lives OfSpiritismFortunetellingSpiritism AvoidedMourning The Death Of OthersOccultismwitchespsychics

And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.

Verse Conceptsarmor

And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side 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 dwelt in them.

Verse ConceptsCities In IsraelIsrael FleeingBeyond Jordan

And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That 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.

Verse ConceptsIsrael FleeingWhat Manner?

And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?

Verse Conceptssaul

Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.

Verse ConceptsAnointing KingsMaking KingsBe Courageous!

And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

Verse ConceptsdiscouragementLosing Courage

When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:

Verse ConceptsNewsGood News

And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

Verse ConceptsdogsBowing Before DavidI Am Unimportant

Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

Verse ConceptsMillstonesBeing Killed By A RockKilling Named Individuals

And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

Verse ConceptsArchers, Men Shot ByKilling Named Individuals

And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

Verse ConceptsMourning The Death Of Others

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?

Verse ConceptsRashnessServants, GoodThe Seventh Day Of The WeekHarming OneselfDay 7Death Of Unnamed IndividualsTelling Of People's SituationsFear Of IndividualsThe Death Of Babieslosing a loved oneDeath Of A ChildLosing SomeoneExamples Of Good Servants

But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.

Verse ConceptsClothing, Kinds OfFaintnessDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsUnder One's Breath

Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.

Verse ConceptsPeople EatingWhat Do You Do?Death Of A Child

And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.

Verse ConceptsPrincesNamed SistersKilling Named IndividualsHalf brothers

Now therefore let not 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.

Verse ConceptsKilling Named IndividualsKilling Sons And Daughters

And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldSpirit, Nature OfParental Lovereuniting

And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:

Verse ConceptsAnointing With OilBereavement, Expression OfMourningOintmentUnhappinessAnointing OneselfPretendingDistinctive Clothing

And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.

Verse ConceptsActual Widows

Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.

Verse ConceptsdogsBeheadingMental Abuse

And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king's son is dead.

And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?

Verse ConceptsAnointing KingsReinstating People

For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of Deathgrandfathers

And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersMidnightCorpses Of Other People

And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.

Verse ConceptsMorningNursesWho Is This?Not The OneDeath Of A Childsisterhood

And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.

Verse ConceptsContradictingDeath Of A Child

Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.

Verse ConceptsContradicting

And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.

And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheBonesAnother's Burial PlaceBurying places

Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.

Verse ConceptsKilling Named Individualsjezebel

And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Of Jesus Christjezebel

And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

Verse ConceptsConfiscation

But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.

Verse ConceptsDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsThe Death Of BabiesDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A Mother

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Abruptly (1 instance)
Absolutely (72 instances)
Deadened (1 instance)
Deceased (12 instances)
Departed (350 instances)
Drained (45 instances)
Extinct (4 instances)
Inanimate (1 instance)
Inert (1 instance)
Insensible (1 instance)
Lifeless (17 instances)
Mortal (60 instances)
Perfectly (49 instances)
Stagnant (3 instances)
Utterly (231 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מוּת 
Muwth 
die , dead , slay , death , surely , kill , dead man , dead body , in no wise ,
Usage: 839

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

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

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

מות 
Maveth 
Usage: 156

נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

פּגר 
Peger 
Usage: 22

רפא 
Rapha' 
Usage: 8

ἀπογενόμενος 
Apogenomenos 
Usage: 1

θανάσιμος 
Thanasimos 
Usage: 0

θανατήφορος 
Thanatephoros 
Usage: 1

θάνατος 
Thanatos 
Usage: 100

θανατόω 
Thanatoo 
put to death , cause to be put to death , kill , become dead , mortify
Usage: 8

κοιμάω 
Koimao 
sleep , fall asleep , be asleep , fall on sleep , be dead
Usage: 16

νεκρός 
Nekros 
Usage: 105

νεκρόω 
Nekroo 
be dead , mortify
Usage: 3

νέκρωσις 
Nekrosis 
Usage: 2

πτῶμα 
Ptoma 
Usage: 4

συναποθνήσκω 
sunapothnesko 
die with , be dead with
Usage: 3

τελευτάω 
Teleutao 
die , be dead , decrease
Usage: 7

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