271 occurrences

'Die' in the Bible

except the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God said, ‘You shall not eat from it nor touch it, otherwise you will die.’”

Verse ConceptsDeviousnessSin Producing DeathNot TouchingSin Produces DeathAdam and eveGardensNASB

Please listen, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness (mercy) to me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, because the disaster will overtake me and I will be killed.

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

So now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her [to him], know that you shall die, you and all who are yours (your household).”

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

Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, “See here, Rebekah is in fact your wife! How did you [dare to] say to me, ‘She is my sister’?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I thought I might be killed because of her [desirability].”

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathWhy Do You Do This?Transferring Wives

and make me a savory and delicious dish [of meat], the kind I love, and bring it to me to eat, so that my soul may bless you [as my firstborn son] before I die.”

Verse ConceptsTasteRequesting FoodSavourinessBefore DeathLoving Other ThingsPeople Blessing

When Rachel saw that she conceived no children for Jacob, she envied her sister, and said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

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

But Jacob replied, “You know, my lord, that the children are frail and need gentle care, and the nursing flocks and herds [with young] are of concern to me; for if the men should drive them hard for a single day, all the flocks will die.

Verse ConceptsTendernessOne DayWeak AnimalsDrivingAnimals SucklingDeath Of CreaturesStrictness

Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow at your father’s house until Shelah my [youngest] son is grown”; [but he was deceiving her] for he thought that [if Shelah should marry her] he too might die like his brothers did. So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

Verse ConceptsSinglenessGrowing UpDaughters In LawPossibility Of DeathActual WidowsWaiting Till Marriage

He said, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down there and buy [some] grain for us, so that we may live and not die [of starvation].”

Verse ConceptsVisitingKept Alive By Men

Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the young man with me and we will get up and go [buy food], so that we may live and not die [of starvation], we as well as you and our little ones.

Verse ConceptsGoing TogetherKept Alive By Men

With whomever of your servants your master’s cup is found, let him die, and the rest of us will be my lord’s slaves.”

Verse ConceptsApproval To Kill

But we said to my lord, ‘The young man cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathPeople Abandoning People

when he sees that the young man is not with us, he will die; and your servants will bring the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in [great] sorrow.

Verse ConceptsAfflicted To DeathGreyNowhere To Be Found

And Israel (Jacob) said, “It is enough! Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

Verse ConceptsBefore DeathLiving On

And Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die [in peace], since I have seen your face [and know] that you are still alive.”

Verse ConceptsReadinessParental LoveResigned To DeathLiving OnSeeing People

And when the money was exhausted in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food! Why should we die before your very eyes? For our money is gone.”

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

Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed [to plant], that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenPossibility Of DeathLiteral PlantingGroups Of Slaves

And when the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh and [promise to] deal loyally and faithfully with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt,

Verse ConceptsKindnessLoyaltyA Time To DieThighsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenImmigrants

Then Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you, and bring you back to [Canaan] 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], saying, “Hear me, I am about to die; bury me in my tomb which I prepared for myself in the land of Canaan.” So now let me go up [to Canaan], please, and bury my father; then I will return.’”

Verse ConceptsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenThe Cave Of Machpelah

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely take care of you and bring you up out of this land to the land which He promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob [to give you].”

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

The fish in the Nile will die, and the Nile will become foul, and the Egyptians will not be able to drink water from the Nile.”’”

Verse ConceptsFishesSmellsSeeking WaterDeath Of Creatures

But the Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing that belongs to the Israelites will die.”’”

Verse ConceptsPlaguesNot DyingGod Differentiating

Now therefore send [a message], bring your livestock and whatever you have in the field to safety. Every man and animal that is in the field and is not brought home shall be struck by the hail and shall die.”’”

Verse ConceptsHow Death Is InevitableBoth Men And Animals Killed

Then Pharaoh said to Moses, “Get away from me! See that you never enter my presence again, for on the day that you see my face again you will die!”

Verse ConceptsNot Seeing PeopleKilling Will Happen

and all the firstborn in the land [the pride, hope, and joy] of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the hand-mill, and all the firstborn of cattle as well.

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

Then they said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What is this that you have done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

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

Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians [as slaves] than to die in the wilderness.”

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

Then they said to Moses, “You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak to us or we will die.”

Verse ConceptsDeath Due To God's PresenceGod Speaking

But if a man acts intentionally against another and kills him by [design through] treachery, you are to take him from My altar [to which he may have fled for protection], so that he may be put to death.

Verse ConceptsSanctity Of LifePresumptuous PlansDeath Penalty For Killing

“If men quarrel and one strikes another with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,

Verse ConceptsDisputesBatteryBedsBeating PeopleBeing Struck With StonesNot Dyingstriving

Aaron shall wear the robe when he ministers, and its sound shall be heard when he goes [alone] into the Holy Place before the Lord, and when he comes out, so that he will not die there.

Verse ConceptsMinistry, Nature OfBellsDeath Due To God's Presence

The various articles of clothing shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they enter the Tent of Meeting, or when they approach the altar [of incense] to minister in the Holy Place, so that they do not incur guilt and die. It shall be a statute forever to Aaron and to his descendants after him.

Verse ConceptsIncurring GuiltOrdinancesTentsDeath Due To God's Presence

When they enter the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, so that they will not die. Also, when they approach the altar to minister, to burn an offering in the fire to the Lord [they shall do the same].

Verse ConceptsDeath Due To God's PresenceAblution

They shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they will not die; it shall be a perpetual statute for them, for Aaron and his descendants throughout their generations.”

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesDeath Due To God's Presence

You shall remain day and night for seven days at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting, doing what the Lord has required you to do, so that you will not die; for so I (Moses) have been commanded.”

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysPresented At The DoorwayDeath As Punishment

Then Moses said to Aaron and to his [younger] sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not uncover your heads nor let your hair hang loose nor tear your clothes [as expressions of mourning], so that you will not die [also] and so that He will not express His wrath and anger toward all the congregation. But your relatives, the whole house of Israel, may mourn the burning which the Lord has brought about.

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

You shall not even go out of the doorway of the Tent of Meeting, or you will die; for the Lord’s anointing oil is upon you.” So they did [everything] according to the word of Moses.

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

“Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you come into the Tent of Meeting, so that you will not die—it is a permanent statute throughout your generations—

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

“Thus you shall separate the Israelites from their uncleanness, so that they do not die in their uncleanness by their defiling My tabernacle that is among them.”

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

and put the incense on the fire [in the censer] before the Lord, so that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on [the ark of] the Testimony, otherwise he will die.

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

If there is a man who lies [intimately] with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they will bear their sin. They will die childless.

Verse ConceptsIncurring GuiltOffspringForbidden Sexual RelationshipsReasons For BarrennessNakedness Uncovered

Therefore the priests shall observe My ordinance, so that they will not bear sin because of it and die if 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 its furniture, as the camp sets out, after all that [is done, but not before], the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them [using the poles], so that they do not touch the holy things, and die. These are the things in the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle) which the sons of Kohath are to carry.

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

But deal with them in this way, so that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and assign each of them to his [specific] work and to his load [to be carried on the march].

Verse ConceptsMan Appointing

But the Kohathites shall not go in to see the holy things, even for an instant, or they will die.”

Verse ConceptsExclusion

He shall not make himself [ceremonially] unclean for his father, mother, brother, or sister, when they die, because [the responsibility for] his separation to God is on his head.

Verse ConceptsLove Between RelativesNot Honouring Parents

I, the Lord, have spoken. I will most certainly do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed [by war, disease, and plagues], and here they shall die.’”

Verse ConceptsDecadenceDying In The WildernessDeath As Punishment

If these men die the common death of all mankind or if what happens to everyone happens to them, then [you will know for sure that] the Lord has not sent me.

Verse Conceptsnatural Deathfate

But the Lord said to Moses, “Put Aaron’s rod back before the Testimony [in the ark], to be kept as a [warning] sign for the rebellious and contentious, so that you may put an end to their murmurings [of discontent] against Me, so that they do 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

Everyone who approaches, who approaches the tabernacle of the Lord, must die. Are we to perish completely?”

Verse ConceptsDanger When God Is Near

And the Levites shall attend to your duty [as assistants] and to the duties of all the tent (tabernacle); only they shall not approach the articles of the sanctuary and the altar, or both they and you will die.

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

The Israelites shall never again approach the Tent of Meeting [the covered sanctuary, the Holy Place, and the Holy of Holies], or they [who do] will incur sin and die.

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

You will bear no sin because of it when you have offered the best of it; but you shall not profane the sacred gifts of the children of Israel, or you will die [because of it].’”

Verse ConceptsSacrilegeDeath Due To God's PresenceNot Guilty

Why have you brought up the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness to die here, we and our livestock?

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

and strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son. So Aaron will be gathered to his fathers, and will die there.”

Verse ConceptsPeople Stripping PeoplePriests GarmentsGathered To One's People

So the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, nor is there any water, and we loathe this miserable 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 (the descendants) of JacobAnd the number of even the fourth part of Israel?Let me die the death of the righteous [those who are upright and in right standing with God],And let my end be like his!”

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

But Korah’s sons did not die [because they did not participate in the rebellion].

Verse ConceptsChildren BlessedLiving Despite God's Presence

For the Lord had said of them, “They shall certainly die in the wilderness.” And not a man was left of them except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

Verse ConceptsExclusionDying In The WildernessDeath As PunishmentSole SurvivorsDying In The Desert

The cities shall be to you as a refuge from the avenger, so that the one who has caused the death of another will not be killed until he has had a [fair] trial before the congregation.

Verse ConceptsRedemption, In Everyday LifeStandingMan AvengingDeath Of A Family Member

If he struck his victim down [intentionally] with a stone in hand, which may cause a person to die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall certainly be put to death.

Verse ConceptsStonesBeing Struck With StonesJudgement On Murderers

Or if he struck his victim down [intentionally] with a wooden object in hand, which may cause a person to die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall certainly be put to death.

Verse ConceptsJudgement On Murderers

For I am going to die in this land, I am not going to cross the Jordan, but you shall cross over and take possession of this good land.

Verse ConceptsCrossing Into The Promised LandHow Death Is Inevitable

Now then why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer, then we will die.

Verse ConceptsDeath Due To God's PresenceFire Emanating From Godrisk

The man who acts presumptuously and insolently by not listening to the priest who stands there to serve the Lord your God, nor to the judge, that man shall die; so you shall remove the evil from Israel.

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

This is according to all that you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb (Mount Sinai) on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear the voice of the Lord my God again, nor see this great fire anymore, so that I will not die.’

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

But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods—that prophet shall die.’

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

then the elders of his own city shall send for him and have him taken back from there and turn him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may be put to death.

Verse ConceptsTownMan Avenging

The officers shall also speak to the soldiers, saying, ‘What man is there who has built a new house and has not yet dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle and another man would dedicate it.

Verse ConceptsBattlesAgriculture, RestrictionsPossibility Of DeathDedicationMoving To A New Place

What man has planted a vineyard and has not put it to use [harvesting its fruit]? Let him go and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle and another man would begin to use its fruit.

Verse ConceptsBattlesEnjoyment, Material ThingsHappinessVineyardPlanting VineyardsCultivationPossibility Of Death

And who is the man who is engaged (legally promised) to a woman and has not married her? Let him go and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle and another man would marry her.’

Verse ConceptsBattlesBetrothalMarriage, Customs ConcerningSinglenessEngagementPossibility Of DeathMarriage Between Man And Woman

“However, if the man finds the girl who is engaged (legally betrothed) in the [open] field, and seizes her and is intimate with her [by force], then only the man who lies with her shall be put to death.

Verse ConceptsCapital Punishment

“If a man is caught kidnapping any of his countrymen from the sons of Israel, and he treats him violently or sells him [as a slave], then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentKidnappingCommerceDeath Penalty For Violencerelaxation

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, the time for you to die is near; call Joshua, and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, so that I may commission him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the Tent of Meeting.

Verse ConceptsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenGod Appointing OthersDeathDeath Approaching

Then die on the mountain which you climb, and be gathered to your people [in death], just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,

Verse ConceptsAfterlifeGathered To One's People

“May [the tribe of] Reuben live and not die out,But let his men be few.”

Verse ConceptsSeeking LifeMany In Israel

The Lord said to him, “Peace to you, do not be afraid; you shall not die.”

Verse ConceptsNot DyingDeath AvertedDo Not Fear For God Will Helpgideon

Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, so that he may be executed, because he has torn down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah which was beside it.”

Verse ConceptsTownDeath As Punishment

So Manoah said to his wife, “We will certainly die, because we have seen God.”

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

Then Samson was very thirsty, and he called out to the Lord and said, “You have given this great victory through the hand of Your servant, and now am I to die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised (pagans)?”

Verse ConceptsUncircumcisionFear, Of DeathFear Of Death

And Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” And he stretched out with all his might [collapsing the support pillars], and the house fell on the lords and on all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he had killed during his life.

Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfTypes Of ChristResigned To DeathMercy Killings

Then the sons of Israel said, “Which one from all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the Lord?” For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the Lord at Mizpah, saying, “He shall certainly be put to death.”

Verse ConceptsPeople Bound By Oaths

Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord do the same to me [as He has done to you], and more also, if anything but death separates me from you.”

Verse ConceptsThe DeadPromises, HumanResigned To DeathAnother's Burial Place

Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar; your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul will grieve, and all those born in your house will die as men [in the prime of life].

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Expression OfSorrowUnhappinessWeepingDeath As Punishment

This will be the sign to you which shall come concerning your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: on the same day both of them shall die.

Verse ConceptsSigns From GodTwo SonsAt The Same Time

Then all the people said to Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God for your servants, so that we will not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil—to ask for a king for ourselves.”

Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodConfession, Examples OfAskingNot DyingAdding EvilDeath PreventedPray For Us

For as the Lord lives, who saves Israel, for even if the guilt is in my son Jonathan, he shall most certainly die.” But not one of all the people answered him.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Being SilentKilling Will HappenOthers Not Answering

Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” So Jonathan told him, “I tasted a little honey with the end of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am, I must die!”

Verse ConceptsSin Confessed

Saul answered, “May God do so [to me], and more also [if I do not keep my word], for you shall most certainly die, Jonathan.”

Verse ConceptsDeath As Punishment

But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan, who has brought about this great victory in Israel, be put to death? Far from it! As the Lord lives, not one hair of his head shall fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day.” So the people rescued Jonathan and he was not put to death.

Verse ConceptsHairsHeadsPublic OpinionFar Be It!Hairs ProtectedIndividuals Saving Others

Jonathan said to him, “Far from it! You shall not die. My father does nothing important or insignificant without telling me. So why would he hide this thing from me? It is not so!”

Verse ConceptsSmallnessFar Be It!Things RevealedThose Who Did Not Tell

If I am still alive, will you not show me the lovingkindness and faithfulness of the Lord, so that I will not die?

Verse ConceptsSeeking Life

For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you [as heir to the throne] nor your kingdom will be established. So now, send [someone] and bring him to me, for he must die.”

Verse ConceptsRivalrySaul And David

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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