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Lexicon :: Strong's H4194 - māveṯ

Aa
מָוֶת
Transliteration
māveṯ
Pronunciation
maw'-veth
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1169a

Strong’s Definitions

מָוֶת mâveth, maw'-veth; from H4191; death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin:—(be) dead(-ly), death, die(-d).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 160x

The KJV translates Strong's H4194 in the following manner: death (128x), die (22x), dead (8x), deadly (1x), slay (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 160x
The KJV translates Strong's H4194 in the following manner: death (128x), die (22x), dead (8x), deadly (1x), slay (1x).

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

    1. death

    2. death by violence (as a penalty)

    3. state of death, place of death

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָוֶת mâveth, maw'-veth; from H4191; death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin:—(be) dead(-ly), death, die(-d).
STRONGS H4194: Abbreviations
מָ֫וֶת 161 noun masculineExodus 10:17 death; — absolute מ׳ Deuteronomy 19:6 +; מָֽ֫וְתָה Psalm 116:15; construct מוֺת Genesis 25:11 +; suffix מוֺתִו Genesis 27:2 +; plural construct מוֺהֵי Ezekiel 28:10; suffix בְּמֹתָיו Isaiah 53:9; —
1. death, opposed to life, Deuteronomy 30:15,19; 2 Samuel 15:21; כל האדם מ׳ the death of all men (that all go to) Numbers 16:29 (J), as distinguished from violent death; יוֺם מ׳ day of death Genesis 27:2 (J) Judges 13:7; 1 Samuel 15:35 +; שְׁנַת מ׳ Isaiah 6:1; Isaiah 14:28; עד מ׳ Numbers 35:25,28,32; Joshua 20:6 (P), 1 Kings 11:40; לפני מ׳ Genesis 27:7,10; Genesis 50:16 (JE); אחרי מ׳ Genesis 26:18 (J), Genesis 25:11; Leviticus 16:1; Numbers 35:28 (P), Deuteronomy 31:27,29 (D) +; בכור מ׳ Job 18:13 firstborn of death (deadly disease); of flies Ecclesiastes 10:1, unclean animals Leviticus 11:31,32 (P).
2. death by violence as a penalty : † -שֶׁמ׳ מִשְׁפַּט + לְ or בְּ person: a case of death to, or in a man, guilty of capital crime Deuteronomy 19:6; Deuteronomy 21:22; Jeremiah 26:11,16; חֵטְא מ׳ Deuteronomy 22:26; מ׳ (י)בנ 1 Samuel 20:31; 1 Samuel 26:16; 2 Samuel 12:5; אישׁ מ׳ 2 Samuel 19:29; אנשׁי מ׳ 1 Kings 2:26; מַלְאֲכֵי מ׳ Proverbs 16:14 messengers of death; במותָיו Isaiah 53:9 in his (martyr-) death (see BrMP 359).
† 3. state of death or place of death (|| שׁאול) Isaiah 28:15,18; Isaiah 38:18; Hosea 13:14; Habakkuk 2:5; Psalm 6:6; Psalm 49:15; Songs 8:6; Proverbs 5:5; Proverbs 7:27; (|| אבדון) Job 28:22; שׁערי מ׳ gates of death Psalm 9:14; Psalm 107:18; Job 38:17.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

25:11; 25:11; 26:18; 27:2; 27:2; 27:7; 27:10; 50:16

Exodus

10:17

Leviticus

11:31; 11:32; 16:1

Numbers

16:29; 35:25; 35:28; 35:28; 35:32

Deuteronomy

19:6; 19:6; 21:22; 22:26; 30:15; 30:19; 31:27; 31:29

Joshua

20:6

Judges

13:7

1 Samuel

15:35; 20:31; 26:16

2 Samuel

12:5; 15:21; 19:29

1 Kings

2:26; 11:40

Job

18:13; 28:22; 38:17

Psalms

6:6; 9:14; 49:15; 107:18; 116:15

Proverbs

5:5; 7:27; 16:14

Ecclesiastes

10:1

Song of Songs

8:6

Isaiah

6:1; 14:28; 28:15; 28:18; 38:18; 53:9; 53:9

Jeremiah

26:11; 26:16

Ezekiel

28:10

Hosea

13:14

Habakkuk

2:5

H4194

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Strong's Number H4194 matches the Hebrew מָוֶת (māveṯ),
which occurs 158 times in 153 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 4 (2Sa 22:5–Pro 2:18)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:5 - “When the waves of death surrounded me,
The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:6 - The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:26 - And to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields, for you are deserving of death; but I will not put you to death at this time, because you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and because you were afflicted every time my father was afflicted.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:40 - Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:1 - Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:21 - Then he went out to the source of the water, and cast in the salt there, and said, “Thus says the LORD: ‘I have healed this water; from it there shall be no more death or barrenness.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:5 - But it happened, when Ahab died, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:40

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:40 - Then they served it to the men to eat. Now it happened, as they were eating the stew, that they cried out and said, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:17 - Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:5 - Then the LORD struck the king, so that he was a leper until the day of his death; so he dwelt in an isolated house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the royal house, judging the people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:24 - After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Hezron’s wife Abijah bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:5 - Now David said, “Solomon my son is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, famous and glorious throughout all countries. I will now make preparation for it.” So David made abundant preparations before his death.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:4 - Therefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD, like the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:15 - But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died; he was one hundred and thirty years old when he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:17 - Now after the death of Jehoiada the leaders of Judah came and bowed down to the king. And the king listened to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:25 - Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:21 - King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He dwelt in an isolated house, because he was a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD. Then Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:33 - So Hezekiah rested with his fathers, and they buried him in the upper tombs of the sons of David; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Then Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:7 - And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman was lovely and beautiful. When her father and mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:21 - Who long for death, but it does not come,
And search for it more than hidden treasures;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:20 - In famine He shall redeem you from death,
And in war from the power of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:15 - So that my soul chooses strangling
And death rather than my body.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:13 - It devours patches of his skin;
The firstborn of death devours his limbs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:15 - Those who survive him shall be buried in death,
And their[fn] widows shall not weep,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:22 - Destruction and Death say,
‘We have heard a report about it with our ears.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:23 - For I know that You will bring me to death,
And to the house appointed for all living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:17 - Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:5 - For in death there is no remembrance of You;
In the grave who will give You thanks?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:13 - He also prepares for Himself instruments of death;
He makes His arrows into fiery shafts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:13 - Have mercy on me, O LORD!
Consider my trouble from those who hate me,
You who lift me up from the gates of death,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 13:3 - Consider and hear me, O LORD my God;
Enlighten my eyes,
Lest I sleep the sleep of death;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:4 - The pangs of death surrounded me,
And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:5 - The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:15 - My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
And My tongue clings to My jaws;
You have brought Me to the dust of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:19 - To deliver their soul from death,
And to keep them alive in famine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14 - Like sheep they are laid in the grave;
Death shall feed on them;
The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;
And their beauty shall be consumed in the grave, far from their dwelling.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:17 - For when he dies he shall carry nothing away;
His glory shall not descend after him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:4 - My heart is severely pained within me,
And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:15 - Let death seize them;
Let them go down alive into hell,
For wickedness is in their dwellings and among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:13 - For You have delivered my soul from death.
Have You not kept my feet from falling,
That I may walk before God
In the light of the living?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:20 - Our God is the God of salvation;
And to GOD the Lord belong escapes from death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:4 - For there are no pangs in their death,
But their strength is firm.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:50

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:50 - He made a path for His anger;
He did not spare their soul from death,
But gave their life over to the plague,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:48

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:48 - What man can live and not see death?
Can he deliver his life from the power of the grave? Selah

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:18 - Their soul abhorred all manner of food,
And they drew near to the gates of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:3 - The pains of death surrounded me,
And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me;
I found trouble and sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:8 - For You have delivered my soul from death,
My eyes from tears,
And my feet from falling.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:15 - Precious in the sight of the LORD
Is the death of His saints.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:18 - The LORD has chastened me severely,
But He has not given me over to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:18 - For her house leads down to death,
And her paths to the dead;

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