מָוֶת mavet

Hebrew word for “death” · Strong’s H4194 · used 155 times in 150 verses

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Meaning

1) death, dying, Death (personified), realm of the dead;

How it is translated

Glosses given for mavet in context, with how often each is used:

• death 144
• like death 3
• like the death 2
• deaths 2
• ¿ like the death 1
• when died 1
• own death 1
• more than death 1

Where it is used

Also in 15 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 27 (3), Numbers 35 (3), Psalms 116 (3), Proverbs 11 (3), Proverbs 14 (3), Jonah 4 (3), Leviticus 11 (2), Deuteronomy 30 (2), Deuteronomy 31 (2), 1 Samuel 15 (2)

Forms

• מות 74
• למות 11
• המות 10
• ממות 10
• מותו 9
• מותי 7
• במות 6
• כמות 6
• במותו 5
• במתם 3

Words used with it

Words that share verses with mavet more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• חַי chay “alive” 23
• שְׁאוֹל sheol “hell” 14
• אַחַר achar “after” 19
• נֶפֶשׁ nephesh “soul” 18
• מוּת mut “to die” 15
• עַד ad “till” 16
• חָיָה chayah “to live” 9
• אָב av “father” 13
• שׁוּב shuv “to return” 11
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 11
• נָצַל natsal “to rescue” 7
• דֶּרֶךְ derekh “way” 9

Key verses

The verses using mavet that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 33:1 — And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
• Psalms 49:14 — Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume…
• Proverbs 14:32 — The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
• Song of Solomon 8:6 — Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire,…
• Isaiah 6:1 — In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
• Isaiah 25:8 — He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the…
• Isaiah 28:15 — Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come…
• Isaiah 53:12 — Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was…
• Jeremiah 15:2 — And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death;…
• Ezekiel 33:11 — Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye…
• Hosea 13:14 — I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance…
• Habakkuk 2:5 — Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.