340 occurrences

'Death' in the Bible

David went up to his house in Jerusalem, then the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to look after the house, and he put them {under confinement}. However, he provided for them, but {he did not sleep with them}. So they were confined until the day of their death, like a lifetime of widowhood.

Then the Gibeonites said to him, "{It is not a matter for us of} silver or gold with Saul or with his household. It is not for us to put to death anyone in Israel." He asked, "What [are] you saying [that] I should do for you all?"

He gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they executed them on the mountain in the presence of Yahweh, and the seven fell together. Now they were put to death in the days of the harvest, at the beginning of the harvest of barley.

For the breaker waves of death engulfed me; the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.

The ropes of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

So then, {as Yahweh lives}, who has established me and seated me on the throne of my father David and who has established for me a dynasty as he promised, then surely Adonijah will be put to death today."

Then Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam got up and fled to Egypt, to Shishak the king of Egypt, and he remained in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

Then he went out to the spring of waters and threw the salt [into it] there and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'I hereby purify these waters; let there be no longer any death or unproductiveness from it.'"

They served the men to eat, but when they ate from the stew, they cried out and said, "There [is] death in the pot, man of God!" They were not able to eat [it].

It happened that when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God to cause death or to give life? This man [is] sending a man to me to cure his disease. Indeed! But know and see that he seeks an opportunity against me."

But Jehosheba the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah took Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, and she stole him from among the sons of the king who were being put to death, [putting] him and his nurse in the inner bedroom. So they hid him from the presence of Athaliah, and he was not killed.

Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.

Yahweh struck the king, and he was infected with a skin disease until the day of his death. He lived in a separate house, [while] Jotham the son of the king [was] over the house, governing the people of the land.

The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; [these] three were born to him from Bathshua the Canaanite. Now Er, Judah's firstborn, [was] evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he put him to death.

And after the death of Hezron in Caleb-Ephrathah, Abijah the wife of Hezron bore to him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.

But he did not seek Yahweh. So Yahweh put him to death and turned over the kingship to David, the son of Jesse.

And Aram fled before Israel. And David killed from Aram [the men of] seven thousand chariots and forty thousand foot soldiers, and he put to death Shophach the commander of the army.

And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh as the house of Ahab [had done], for they were his counselors to his destruction after the death of his father.

And he searched for Ahaziah and captured him. And he was hiding in Samaria. And they brought him to Jehu and put him to death. And they buried him, for they said, "He [is] the descendant of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with his whole heart." And the house of Ahab had no one to exercise power over the kingdom.

But Jehosheba the daughter of the king took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, and kidnapped him away from the sons of the king who were to be put to death. And she put him and his nurse in a private bedroom. So Jehosheba the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, because she was a sister of Ahaziah, hid him from before Athaliah so that she did not put him to death.

And the Levites shall surround the king all around, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever comes into the house shall be put to death. You shall be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out."

Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the commanders of the hundreds appointed over the troops, and he said to them, "Bring her out between the ranks, and whoever goes after her shall be put to death with the sword." For the priest had said, "You must not kill her in the house of Yahweh.

And Jehoiada grew old and full of days, and he died; [he was] one hundred and thirty years old at his death.

Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.

But he did not put their children to death, according to [what] is written in the law, in the scroll of Moses, where Yahweh commanded, saying, "Fathers shall not be put to death on account of the sons, and the sons shall not be put to death on account of the fathers, but each shall be put to death for his own sin."

And Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived after the death of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, the king of Israel, fifteen years.

So King Uzziah was leprous until the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house as a leper, for he was cut off from the house of Yahweh. And Jotham his son [was] over the house of the king, judging the people of the land.

In those days Hezekiah fell ill unto death, and he prayed to Yahweh. And he answered him and gave him a sign.

And Hezekiah slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the upper [part] of the burial sites of the descendants of David. And all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son became king in his place.

All who do not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with diligence, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of goods and for imprisonment."

In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from [the] {power of} [the] sword.

So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}.

It consumes parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.

Indeed, I know [that] you will bring me to death and [to the] house of assembly for all [the] living.

He spares his life from [the] pit and his life from passing over the river [of death].

Have [the] gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen [the] gates of deep shadow?

And he has prepared for him weapons of death. He has made his arrows fiery shafts.

Be gracious to me, O Yahweh. See my suffering from [those who] hate me, [you who] lift me up from the gates of death,

Consider [and] answer me, O Yahweh my God. Give light to my eyes lest I sleep [the sleep of] death,

The ropes of Sheol surrounded me; [the] snares of death confronted me.

My strength is dry like a potsherd, and my tongue is sticking [to] my jaws; and you have placed me in [the] dust of death.

"What gain [is there] in my {death}, in my going down into [the] pit? Will [the] dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?

Like sheep they are destined to Sheol; death will shepherd them. But the upright will rule over them in the morning, and their forms [will be for] Sheol to consume, [far from] his lofty abode.

Let death deceive them. May they descend to Sheol alive, because evil [is] in their home [and] {heart}.

because you have delivered my soul from death. [Have you] not [kept] my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

the anger of God rose against them, and he killed some of the stoutest of them, even the young men of Israel he caused to bow down [in death].

He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them from death but handed their life over to the plague.

Let the groaning of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your {power}, spare [the] children [appointed to] death.

[The] ropes of death encircled me, and the distresses of Sheol found me. I found trouble and grief.

He who is steadfast in righteousness [is] to life as he who pursues evil [is] to death.

The wrath of a king [is] a messenger of death, but one who is wise will appease it.

A person who is burdened with [the] blood of {another}, until death he will flee; do not take hold of him.

For the fate of {humans} and the fate of the beast is {the same}. The death of the one is like the death of the other, for {both are mortal}. Man has no advantage over the beast, for both are fleeting.

Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for [death is] the end of every person, and the living should take [it] to his heart.

I myself found [that] more bitter than death [is] the woman who [is] a trap, whose heart [is] a snare, and whose hands [are] bonds. The one who pleases God escapes from her, but the sinner is caught by her.

Just as no one can control the wind to restrain the wind, so also no one can control the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not deliver the wicked.

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love [is] strong as death; passion [is] fierce as Sheol; its flashes [are] flashes of fire; [it is] a blazing flame.

In the year of the death of king Ahaz there was this oracle:

Because you have said, "We have {made} a covenant with death, and we have made an agreement with Sheol. [The] overwhelming flood, when it passes through, will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves in falsehood."

And your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; you will become a trampling place for the overwhelming flood when it passes through.

In those days, Hezekiah became sick to death, and Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Order your house, for you [are] about to die, and you shall not recover.'"

For Sheol cannot praise you; death [cannot] praise you. Those who go down [to the] pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

Therefore, I will divide to him [a portion] among the many, and with [the] strong ones he will divide bounty, {because} he poured his life out to death and was counted with [the] transgressors; and he was the one who bore the sin of many and will intercede for the transgressors.

And death will be preferred to life by all the remaining of this evil clan in all the remaining places where I have driven them away," {declares} Yahweh.

For death has come into our windows, it has entered into our fortresses, to cut off [the] children from [the] streets, [the] young men from [the] public squares.

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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

בּצּרת 
Batstsoreth 
Usage: 2

גּמל 
Gamal 
Usage: 37

התל 
Hathal 
Usage: 10

זיד זוּד 
Zuwd 
Usage: 10

חלק 
Chalaq 
Usage: 65

חרשׁ 
Charash 
Usage: 74

חרשׁ 
Cheresh 
Usage: 9

ידדוּת 
Y@diduwth 
Usage: 1

יקּיר 
Yaqqiyr 
Usage: 1

כּחשׁ 
Kachash 
Usage: 23

מות 
Mowth (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

מות 
Maveth 
Usage: 156

ממות 
Mamowth 
Usage: 2

נכל 
Nakal 
Usage: 4

נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

עול 
`aval 
Usage: 2

עשּׂרן עשּׂרון 
`issarown 
Usage: 33

פּגר 
Peger 
Usage: 22

פּרס 
Parac 
Usage: 14

צלמות 
Tsalmaveth 
Usage: 18

רעב 
Ra`ab 
Usage: 101

רפא 
Rapha' 
Usage: 8

רצח 
Ratsach 
Usage: 47

שׁקר 
Shaqar 
Usage: 6

G26
ἀγάπη 
Agape 
Usage: 105

G27
ἀγαπητός 
Agapetos 
Usage: 60

ἀναίρεσις 
Anairesis 
Usage: 2

ἀναιρέω 
Anaireo 
kill , slay , put to death , take up , do , take away
Usage: 23

ἀπάγω 
Apago 
Usage: 11

ἀπογενόμενος 
Apogenomenos 
Usage: 1

ἀποκτείνω 
Apokteino 
kill , slay , put to death
Usage: 40

διάκονος 
Diakonos 
Usage: 24

ἔντιμος 
Entimos 
Usage: 4

ἐντυγχάνω 
Entugchano 
Usage: 5

ἐπιθανάτιος 
Epithanatios 
Usage: 1

ἐσχάτως 
Eschatos 
lie at the point of death 9
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

κατασοφίζομαι 
Katasophizomai 
deal subtilly with
Usage: 1

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

κωφός 
Kophos 
Usage: 11

λιμός 
Limos 
Usage: 6

μερίζω 
merizo 
Usage: 8

νεκρός 
Nekros 
Usage: 105

νεκρόω 
Nekroo 
be dead , mortify
Usage: 3

νέκρωσις 
Nekrosis 
Usage: 2

περισσότερον 
Perissoteron 
Usage: 4

ποιέω 
Poieo 
do , make , bring forth , commit , cause , work , show , bear , keep , fulfil , deal , perform , not tr , , vr do
Usage: 372

πτῶμα 
Ptoma 
Usage: 4

συγχράομαι 
Sugchraomai 
have dealings with
Usage: 1

συναποθνήσκω 
sunapothnesko 
die with , be dead with
Usage: 3

τελευτάω 
Teleutao 
die , be dead , decrease
Usage: 7

τελευτή 
Teleute 
Usage: 1

τίμιος 
Timios 
Usage: 14