Lexicon :: Strong's H4194 - māveṯ

Her feet go down to death;

her steps head straight for Sheol.

Her house is the road to Sheol,

descending to the chambers of death.

“but the one who misses me[fn] harms himself;

all who hate me love death.”

Ill-gotten gains do not profit anyone,

but righteousness rescues from death.

Wealth is not profitable on a day of wrath,

but righteousness rescues from death.

There is life in the path of righteousness,

and in its path there is no death.[fn]

A wise person’s instruction is a fountain of life,

turning people away from the snares of death.

There is a way that seems right to a person,

but its end is the way to death.

A king’s fury is a messenger of death,

but a wise person appeases it.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue,

and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Making a fortune through a lying tongue

is a vanishing mist,[fn] a pursuit of death.[fn][fn]

Rescue those being taken off to death,

and save those stumbling toward slaughter.

Like a madman who throws flaming darts and deadly arrows,

For the fate of the children of Adam and the fate of animals is the same. As one dies, so dies the other; they all have the same breath. People have no advantage over animals since everything is futile.

A good name is better than fine perfume,

and the day of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth.

No one has authority over the wind[fn] to restrain it, and there is no authority over the day of death; no one is discharged during battle, and wickedness will not allow those who practice it to escape.

Dead flies make a perfumer’s oil ferment and stink;

so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

Set me as a seal on your heart,

as a seal on your arm.

For love is as strong as death;

jealousy is as unrelenting as Sheol.

Love’s flames are fiery flames —

an almighty flame![fn]

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, and the hem of his robe filled the temple.

In the year that King Ahaz died, this pronouncement came:

When he has swallowed up death once and for all,

the Lord GOD will wipe away the tears

from every face

and remove his people’s disgrace

from the whole earth,

for the LORD has spoken.

For you said, “We have made a covenant with Death,

and we have an agreement with Sheol;

when the overwhelming catastrophe[fn] passes through,

it will not touch us,

because we have made falsehood our refuge

and have hidden behind treachery.”

For Sheol cannot thank you;

Death cannot praise you.

Those who go down to the Pit

cannot hope for your faithfulness.

He was assigned a grave with the wicked,

but he was with a rich man at his death,

because he had done no violence

and had not spoken deceitfully.

“Death will be chosen over life by all the survivors of this evil family, those who remain wherever I have banished them.” This is the declaration of the LORD of Armies.

for Death has climbed through our windows;

it has entered our fortresses,

cutting off children from the streets,

young men from the squares.

“If they ask you, ‘Where will we go? ’ tell them: This is what the LORD says:

Those destined for death, to death;

those destined for the sword, to the sword.

Those destined for famine, to famine;

those destined for captivity, to captivity.

Therefore, hand their children over to famine,

and give them over to the power of the sword.

Let their wives become childless and widowed,

their husbands slain by deadly disease,[fn]

their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

“But tell this people, ‘This is what the LORD says: Look, I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death.

Then the priests and prophets said to the officials and all the people, “This man deserves the death sentence because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”

“He will come and strike down the land of Egypt ​— ​those destined for death, to death; those destined for captivity, to captivity; and those destined for the sword, to the sword.

Then he blinded Zedekiah and bound him with bronze chains. The king of Babylon brought Zedekiah to Babylon, where he kept him in custody[fn] until his dying day.

LORD, see how I am in distress.

I am churning within;

my heart is broken,[fn]

for I have been very rebellious.

Outside, the sword takes the children;

inside, there is death.

“Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? ” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD. “Instead, don’t I take pleasure when he turns from his ways and lives?

You will die the death of the uncircumcised

at the hands of strangers.

For I have spoken.

This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.’ ”

“This happened so that no trees planted beside water would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and so that no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the underworld, among the people[fn] who descend to the Pit.

Tell them, ‘As I live ​— ​this is the declaration of the Lord GOD ​— ​I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked person should turn from his way and live. Repent, repent of your evil ways! Why will you die, house of Israel? ’

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol.

I will redeem[fn] them from death.

Death, where are your barbs?

Sheol, where is your sting?

Compassion is hidden from my eyes.