Lexicon :: Strong's H4194 - māveṯ

For the waves of death engulfed me;

the torrents of destruction terrified me.

The king said to the priest Abiathar, “Go to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death today, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD in the presence of my father David and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”

Therefore, Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but he fled to Egypt, to King Shishak of Egypt, where he remained until Solomon’s death.

After Ahab’s death, Moab rebelled against Israel.

Elisha went out to the spring, threw salt in it, and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘I have healed this water. No longer will death or unfruitfulness result from it.’ ”

but when Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

They served some for the men to eat, but when they ate the stew they cried out, “There’s death in the pot, man of God! ” And they were unable to eat it.

Judah’s King Amaziah son of Joash lived fifteen years after the death of Israel’s King Jehoash son of Jehoahaz.

The LORD afflicted the king, and he had a serious skin disease until the day of his death. He lived in quarantine,[fn] while Jotham, the king’s son, was over the household governing the people of the land.

After Hezron’s death in Caleb-ephrathah, his wife Abijah bore[fn] Ashhur to him. He was the father of Tekoa.

David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly great and famous and glorious in all the lands. Therefore, I will make provision for it.” So David made lavish preparations for it before his death.

So he did what was evil in the LORD’s sight like the house of Ahab, for they were his advisers after the death of his father, to his destruction.

Jehoiada died when he was old and full of days; he was 130 years old at his death.

Judah’s King Amaziah son of Joash lived fifteen years after the death of Israel’s King Jehoash son of Jehoahaz.

So King Uzziah was diseased to the time of his death. He lived in quarantine[fn] with a serious skin disease and was excluded from access to the LORD’s temple, while his son Jotham was over the king’s household governing the people of the land.

Hezekiah rested with his ancestors and was buried on the ascent to the tombs of David’s descendants. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem paid him honor at his death. His son Manasseh became king in his place.

Mordecai was the legal guardian of his cousin[fn] Hadassah (that is, Esther), because she had no father or mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was extremely good-looking. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter.

who wait for death, but it does not come,

and search for it more than for hidden treasure,

In famine he will redeem you from death,

and in battle, from the power of the sword.

so that I prefer strangling[fn] —

death rather than life in this body.[fn]

Parts of his skin are eaten away;

death’s firstborn consumes his limbs.

Those who survive him will be buried by the plague,

yet their widows will not weep for them.

Abaddon and Death say,

“We have heard news of it with our ears.”

Yes, I know that you will lead me to death —

the place appointed for all who live.

Have the gates of death been revealed to you?

Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

For there is no remembrance of you in death;

who can thank you in Sheol?

He has prepared his deadly weapons;

he tips his arrows with fire.

Be gracious to me, LORD;

consider my affliction at the hands of those who hate me.

Lift me up from the gates of death,

Consider me and answer, LORD my God.

Restore brightness to my eyes;

otherwise, I will sleep in death.

The ropes of death were wrapped around me;

the torrents of destruction terrified me.

My strength is dried up like baked clay;

my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.

You put me into the dust of death.

to rescue them from death

and to keep them alive in famine.

Like sheep they are headed for Sheol;

Death will shepherd them.

The upright will rule over them in the morning,

and their form will waste away in Sheol,[fn]

far from their lofty abode.

My heart shudders within me;

terrors of death sweep over me.

For you rescued me from death,

even my feet from stumbling,

to walk before God in the light of life.

Our God is a God of salvation,

and escape from death belongs to the LORD my Lord.

They have an easy time until they die,[fn]

and their bodies are well fed.[fn]

He cleared a path for his anger.

He did not spare them from death

but delivered their lives to the plague.

What courageous person can live and never see death?

Who can save himself from the power of Sheol?Selah

They loathed all food

and came near the gates of death.

The ropes of death were wrapped around me,

and the torments of Sheol overcame me;

I encountered trouble and sorrow.

The LORD disciplined me severely

but did not give me over to death.

for her house sinks down to death

and her ways to the land of the departed spirits.