'Dead' in the Bible

And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

“As a cloud vanishes and is gone,So he who goes down to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) does not come up.

When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

“His wisdom is as high as the heights of heaven. What can you do?It is deeper than Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead). What can you know?

Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

For what does he care about his family once he is dead,when the number of his months has run out?

“Drought and heat consume the snow waters;So does Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) [consume] those who have sinned.

The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

“Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) is naked before God,And Abaddon (the place of destruction) has no covering [from His eyes].

And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses are, there it is."

He regards iron like straw, and hardened bronze like a dead tree.