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Lexicon :: Strong's H4191 - mûṯ

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מוּת
Transliteration
mûṯ
Pronunciation
mooth
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1169

Strong’s Definitions

מוּת mûwth, mooth; a primitive root; to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill:—× at all, × crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), × must needs, slay, × surely, × very suddenly, × in (no) wise.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 835x

The KJV translates Strong's H4191 in the following manner: die (424x), dead (130x), slay (100x), death (83x), surely (50x), kill (31x), dead man (3x), dead body (2x), in no wise (2x), miscellaneous (10x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 835x
The KJV translates Strong's H4191 in the following manner: die (424x), dead (130x), slay (100x), death (83x), surely (50x), kill (31x), dead man (3x), dead body (2x), in no wise (2x), miscellaneous (10x).
  1. to die, kill, have one executed

    1. (Qal)

      1. to die

      2. to die (as penalty), be put to death

      3. to die, perish (of a nation)

      4. to die prematurely (by neglect of wise moral conduct)

    2. (Polel) to kill, put to death, dispatch

    3. (Hiphil) to kill, put to death

    4. (Hophal)

      1. to be killed, be put to death

        1. to die prematurely

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מוּת mûwth, mooth; a primitive root; to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill:—× at all, × crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), × must needs, slay, × surely, × very suddenly, × in (no) wise.
STRONGS H4191: Abbreviations
מוּת verb die (Late Hebrew id. (rare); Assyrian mâtu DlHWB 395, Arabic bdb055903, Ethiopic bdb055904, Aramaic מוּת, מִית, bdb055905; Nabataean מות EutNab 14, 6; Zinjirli מת DHMSendsch. Glossary); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular מֵת Genesis 42:38 +; 3rd person feminine singular מֵ֫תָה Genesis 35:18 +; 2nd person masculine singular מַתֶּה Ezekiel 28:8; 1st person singular וָמַ֑תִּי Genesis 19:19; 3rd person masculine plural מֵ֫תוּ Genesis 7:22 +; 1st person plural מַתְנוּ Numbers 14:2; 2 Kings 7:4; מָ֑תְנוּ Numbers 14:9 +; Imperfect יָמוּת Genesis 38:11 +; יָמֹ֑ת Deuteronomy 33:6 +; וַיָּ֫מָת Genesis 11:28 +; 1st person singular אָמוּת Genesis 26:9 +; אָמֻת 2 Samuel 19:38; אָמוּ֫תָה Genesis 46:30; 3rd person masculine plural יָמ֫וּתוּ 1 Samuel 2:23 +; יְמֻתוּן Numbers 16:29; 3rd person feminine plural תְּמוּתֶ֫נָה Ezekiel 13:19 (Ges§ 72, 5) +; Imperative מֻת Deuteronomy 32:50; Job 2:9; Infinitive absolute מוֺת Genesis 2:17 +; construct מוּת Genesis 25:32 +; suffix מוּתִי 2 Samuel 19:1; מֻתָן 2 Samuel 20:3, etc.; Participle מֵת Genesis 20:3 +; suffix מֵתִי Genesis 23:4 +; feminine singular מֵתָה Genesis 30:1; Zechariah 11:9; plural מֵתִים Exodus 12:33 +; construct מֵתֵי Isaiah 22:2 +; suffix מֵתֶיךָ Isaiah 26:19; —
1. die, of natural or other causes:
a.
(1) of man, וַיִּגְוִע וַיָּמָת and he expired and died Genesis 25:8 (+ בְּשֵׂיבֶה טוֺבָה, see below), Genesis 25:17; Genesis 35:29 (P); וַיָּמָת וַיִּקָּבֵר Judges 10:2, 5; Judges 8:32; Judges 12:7, 10, 12, 15; 2 Samuel 17:23; וימלך תַּחְתָּיו וימת and he died and — reigned in his stead Genesis 36:33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 (P), 2 Samuel 10:1 = 1 Chronicles 19:1; 2 Kings 1:17; 2 Kings 8:15; 2 Kings 13:24; 1 Chronicles 1:44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50; וימת בְּשֵׂיבָה טוֺבָה and he died in a good old age 1 Chronicles 29:28 (+ Genesis 25:8, see above); as the result of smiting הכה Exodus 21:18, 20, 22 (E); + במלחמה Deuteronomy 20:5, 6, 7; 2 Samuel 19:11; בַּחֶרֶב Jeremiah 11:22; ברעב Jeremiah 11:22; מפני הדעב Jeremiah 38:9; בְּדֶבֶר Jeremiah 21:6; באבן Numbers 35:17, 23 (P); בַּמַּגֵּפָה Numbers 14:37; Numbers 17:14; Numbers 25:9 (P).
(2) figurative of wisdom, תָּמוּת חָכְמָה עִמָּכֶם Job 12:22; of courage, וַיָּמָת לִבּוֺ בְּקִרְבּוֺ and his heart died within him 1 Samuel 25:37. — 2 Samuel 2:31 strike out מֵ֑תוּ We Dr Kit Bu, compare Greek Version of the LXX.
b. of animals Leviticus 11:39; cattle Genesis 33:13 (J), fish Exodus 7:18 (E), frogs Exodus 8:9 (J), lion Ecclesiastes 9:4, worm Isaiah 66:24; כֶּלֶב מֵת, dead dog (in proverb) 1 Samuel 24:15; 2 Samuel 9:8; 2 Samuel 16:9.
c. a tree Job 14:8.
d. זִבְחֵי מֵתִים Psalm 106:28 sacrifices to the dead (idols).
2. die as a penalty = be put to death:
a. by human authority Genesis 42:20; Exodus 10:28; Exodus 21:14 (E), Genesis 44:9; Joshua 2:14 (J), Leviticus 20:20 (H), Numbers 35:12, 30 (twice in verse) (P), especially D, Deuteronomy 17:2, 6; Deuteronomy 18:20; Deuteronomy 19:12; Deuteronomy 22:22, 25; Deuteronomy 24:7; Judges 6:30; 1 Samuel 14:43, 45 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 19:24; Jeremiah 38:24; יָמוּת מוֹת, die = be put to a violent death (> AV RV surely die), 1 Samuel 14:39, 44; 1 Samuel 22:16; 1 Kings 2:37, 42 (all Judaic), Jeremiah 26:8, all of capital punishment; 2 Kings 8:10 (Ehpraimitic source) cf assassination; מוֺת יוּמַת be put to a violent death, in the codes of Exodus 21:12, 15, 16, 17; Exodus 22:18 (E), Leviticus 20:2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 27; Leviticus 24:16, 17 (H), Exodus 31:14, 15; Numbers 15:35; Numbers 35:16, 17, 18, 21, 31; Leviticus 27:29 (P; never in D; D uses verb, either Qal or Hiph., without infinitive absolute); it is used in narratives Genesis 26:11 (J), Exodus 19:12 (E), Judges 21:5. מ׳ is preceded by רגם Numbers 15:36 (P), Deuteronomy 21:21; 1 Kings 12:18 2 Chronicles 10:18; 1 Kings 21:13; סקל Deuteronomy 13:11; Deuteronomy 17:5; Deuteronomy 22:21, 24; 1 Kings 21:10, 13, 14, 15; פגע 1 Kings 2:25, 46; רמס 2 Kings 7:17, 20; בְּיַד גֹּאֵל Joshua 20:9 (P).
c. die, perish, of a nation by divine judgment, Moab Amos 2:2, Ephraim Hosea 13:1; בית ישׂראל Ezekiel 18:31; Ezekiel 33:1.
d. die prematurely, by neglect of wise moral conduct Proverbs 5:23; Proverbs 10:21; Proverbs 15:10; Proverbs 19:16; Proverbs 23:13; EC Proverbs 7:17. —
Note. On (לַבֵּן) עַלמֿוּת Psalm 9:1; Psalm 48:15 see עַלְמָה below II. עלם.
Po`lel. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular suffix מוֺתְתַנִי Jeremiah 20:17; 1st person singular מֹתַתִּי 2 Samuel 1:16; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular suffix יְמֹתְתֵהוּ 1 Samuel 17:51; 3rd person feminine singular תְּמוֺתֵת Psalm 34:22; 1st person singular suffix אֲמֹתְתֵהוּ 2 Samuel 1:10; Imperative suffix מוֺתְתֵנִי Judges 9:54; מֹתְתֵנִי 2 Samuel 1:9; infinitive מוֺתֵת Psalm 109:16; Participle מְמוֺתֵת 1 Samuel 14:13; — kill, put to death, despatch (intensive), absolute 1 Samuel 14:13, elsewhere with accusative Judges 9:54; 1 Samuel 17:51; 2 Samuel 1:9, 10, 16; Jeremiah 20:17; Psalm 34:22; Psalm 109:16.
Hiph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular הֵמִית Judges 16:30 +; suffix וֶהֱמִתָ֑נִי 2 Samuel 14:32; הֱמִיתָם Jeremiah 41:8; 3rd person feminine singular suffix הֱמִיתָ֑תְהוּ 2 Chronicles 22:11; 2nd person masculine singular הֵמַתָּה Numbers 14:15; 1st person singular suffix הֲמִיתִּיו (read הֲמִתִּיו) 1 Samuel 17:35; 3rd person masculine plural הֵמִיתוּ 1 Samuel 30:2 +, etc.; Imperfect יָמִית Numbers 35:19 +; וַיָּ֫מֶת Genesis 38:10 +; suffix יְמִיתֵהוּ 1 Kings 13:24 +; יְמִתֶנּוּ Numbers 35:19 +; Imperative suffix הֲמִיתֵנִי 1 Samuel 20:8; plural הָמִיתוּ 1 Samuel 22:17; Infinitive absolute הָמֵת 2 Kings 11:15 +; construct הָמִית Leviticus 20:4 +; Participle מֵמִית 1 Samuel 2:6; pl, מְמִיתִים 2 Kings 17:26; Job 33:22; מְמִתִים Jeremiah 26:15; — kill, put to death
1. absolute Job 9:23, elsewhere with accusative, subject man,
a. of killing men in personal combat, or in war, often preceded by הכּה smite Joshua 10:26; Joshua 11:17; Joshua 17:50 +; of destroying a city 2 Samuel 20:19 (|| השׁחית 2 Samuel 20:20).
2. subject God, by inflicting penalty, absolute Deuteronomy 32:39; 1 Samuel 2:6; 2 Kings 5:7, elsewhere with accusative Genesis 18:25; Genesis 38:7, 10; Exodus 4:24; Numbers 14:15 (J), Deuteronomy 9:28; Judges 13:23; 1 Samuel 2:25; 1 Samuel 5:10, 11; 1 Chronicles 2:3; 1 Chronicles 10:14; Isaiah 65:15; Hosea 9:16; ברעב Isaiah 14:30; בצמא Hosea 2:5; of killing fish Psalm 105:29; מְמִיתִים Job 33:22 executioners, angels of death.
3. of animals killing men, e.g. ox Exodus 21:29 (E), lion 1 Kings 13:24, 26; 2 Kings 17:26.
4. bring to a premature death Proverbs 19:18; Proverbs 21:25.
Hoph. Perfect הוּמָ֑ת 2 Kings 11:2 +; 3rd person masculine plural הֻמְתוּ 2 Samuel 21:9; Imperfect יוּמַת Leviticus 20:10 +; יוּמָ֑ת Genesis 26:11 +; Participle מוּמָת 1 Samuel 19:11, plural מוּמָתִים 2 Kings 11:2 (Qr), 2 Chronicles 22:11; — be killed, put to death:
1. by conspiracy 2 Kings 11:2 (twice in verse) = 2 Chronicles 22:11; 2 Kings 11:8, 15, 16; 2 Chronicles 23:7, 14.
3. by divine infliction, in the phrase מות יוּמת (see Qal 2b).
4. die prematurely Proverbs 19:16.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H4193.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:17; 2:17; 3:3; 3:4; 7:22; 11:28; 18:25; 19:19; 20:3; 20:3; 20:7; 23:4; 25:8; 25:8; 25:17; 25:32; 26:9; 26:11; 26:11; 30:1; 33:13; 35:18; 35:29; 36:33; 36:34; 36:35; 36:36; 36:37; 36:38; 36:39; 38:7; 38:10; 38:10; 38:11; 38:11; 42:20; 42:38; 44:9; 46:30

Exodus

1:16; 4:24; 7:18; 8:9; 10:28; 11:5; 12:33; 12:36; 16:3; 19:12; 21:12; 21:14; 21:15; 21:16; 21:17; 21:18; 21:20; 21:22; 21:29; 21:29; 22:18; 28:35; 28:43; 30:20; 31:14; 31:15; 35:2

Leviticus

8:35; 10:2; 10:6; 10:7; 10:9; 11:39; 15:21; 16:1; 16:2; 16:13; 19:20; 20:2; 20:4; 20:4; 20:9; 20:10; 20:10; 20:11; 20:12; 20:13; 20:15; 20:16; 20:20; 20:27; 22:9; 24:16; 24:16; 24:17; 24:21; 27:29

Numbers

1:15; 3:4; 3:10; 3:38; 4:15; 4:19; 4:20; 14:2; 14:9; 14:15; 14:15; 14:35; 14:37; 15:35; 15:36; 16:29; 18:3; 18:7; 18:22; 18:32; 25:9; 26:11; 26:61; 26:65; 27:3; 35:12; 35:16; 35:17; 35:17; 35:18; 35:19; 35:19; 35:19; 35:21; 35:21; 35:23; 35:30; 35:31

Deuteronomy

5:22; 9:10; 9:28; 13:6; 13:11; 17:2; 17:5; 17:6; 17:6; 17:7; 18:16; 18:20; 19:12; 20:5; 20:6; 20:7; 21:21; 21:22; 22:21; 22:22; 22:24; 22:25; 24:7; 24:16; 32:39; 32:50; 33:6

Joshua

1:18; 2:14; 10:11; 10:26; 11:17; 20:9

Judges

6:23; 6:30; 6:31; 8:32; 9:54; 9:54; 10:2; 10:5; 12:7; 12:10; 12:12; 12:15; 13:21; 13:22; 13:23; 15:13; 16:30; 20:13; 21:5

1 Samuel

2:6; 2:6; 2:23; 2:25; 5:10; 5:11; 5:12; 11:12; 11:13; 12:19; 14:13; 14:13; 14:39; 14:43; 14:44; 14:45; 17:35; 17:51; 17:51; 19:6; 19:11; 19:11; 19:24; 20:8; 20:32; 22:16; 22:17; 24:15; 25:17; 25:37; 25:38; 25:39; 28:9; 30:2

2 Samuel

1:9; 1:9; 1:10; 1:10; 1:16; 1:16; 2:31; 6:7; 9:8; 10:1; 12:13; 12:14; 14:7; 14:14; 14:32; 14:32; 16:9; 17:23; 19:1; 19:11; 19:22; 19:23; 19:38; 20:3; 20:19; 20:20; 21:4; 21:9; 21:9

1 Kings

1:51; 2:8; 2:24; 2:25; 2:26; 2:34; 2:37; 2:42; 2:46; 3:26; 3:27; 11:40; 12:18; 13:24; 13:24; 13:26; 19:4; 19:17; 21:10; 21:13; 21:13; 21:14; 21:15

2 Kings

1:4; 1:6; 1:16; 1:17; 5:7; 7:4; 7:17; 7:20; 8:10; 8:15; 11:2; 11:2; 11:2; 11:8; 11:15; 11:15; 11:16; 11:20; 13:24; 14:6; 14:6; 14:6; 14:6; 17:26; 17:26; 19:35

1 Chronicles

1:44; 1:45; 1:46; 1:47; 1:48; 1:49; 1:50; 2:3; 10:13; 10:14; 19:1; 24:2; 29:28

2 Chronicles

10:18; 13:20; 15:13; 22:11; 22:11; 22:11; 23:7; 23:14; 23:21; 25:4; 25:4; 25:4

Esther

4:11

Job

2:9; 9:23; 12:22; 14:8; 33:22; 33:22

Psalms

9:1; 34:22; 34:22; 105:29; 106:28; 109:16; 109:16

Proverbs

5:23; 7:17; 10:21; 15:10; 19:16; 19:16; 19:18; 21:25; 23:13

Ecclesiastes

9:4

Isaiah

11:4; 14:30; 22:2; 26:19; 37:36; 65:15; 66:24

Jeremiah

11:22; 11:22; 20:17; 20:17; 21:6; 26:8; 26:15; 26:15; 26:19; 26:21; 26:24; 31:30; 38:4; 38:9; 38:15; 38:15; 38:16; 38:24; 38:25; 41:8

Ezekiel

3:18; 3:18; 3:19; 3:20; 3:20; 13:19; 18:4; 18:13; 18:17; 18:18; 18:20; 18:21; 18:24; 18:26; 18:26; 18:28; 18:31; 28:8; 33:1; 33:8; 33:8; 33:9; 33:13; 33:14; 33:15; 33:18

Hosea

2:5; 9:16; 13:1

Amos

2:2

Zechariah

11:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4191 matches the Hebrew מוּת (mûṯ),
which occurs 27 times in 22 verses in '2Ch' in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:18 - Then King Rehoboam [fn]sent Hadoram, who was over the forced labor, and the Israelites stoned him and he died. And King Rehoboam hurried to mount his [royal] chariot to escape to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:20 - Jeroboam did not recover strength again during the time of [the reign of] Abijah. And the LORD struck him and he died.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:13 - and that whoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:13 - So Asa slept with his fathers [in death], dying in the forty-first year of his reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:34 - The battle raged that day, and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot in front of the Arameans (Syrians) until the evening, and at sunset he died.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:19 - Now it came about in the course of time, at the end of two years, that his intestines came out because of his disease and he died in excruciating pain. And his people did not make a funeral fire to honor him, like the fire for his fathers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:9 - Jehu also searched for Ahaziah, who was hiding in Samaria; he was captured, brought to Jehu, and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “After all, he is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” So the house of Ahaziah had no one left to retain the power to rule over the kingdom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:10 -

Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose and destroyed all the royal family of the house of Judah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:11 - But Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, took Joash the [infant] son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and she placed him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram [of Judah] and wife of Jehoiada the priest, hid Joash from [his grandmother] Athaliah so that she did not murder him (for Jehoshabeath was the sister of Ahaziah).
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:7 - “The Levites shall surround the [young] king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whoever comes into the temple [breaking through the ranks of the guard to get near Joash] is to be killed. You are to be with the king when he comes in [from the temple chamber where he is hiding] and when he goes out.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:14 - So Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were appointed over the army and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks [of soldiers]; and whoever follows her shall be put to death with the sword.” For the priest had said, “Do not let her be put to death in the temple of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:15 - So they seized Athaliah, and when she arrived at the entrance of the Horse Gate of the king’s house (palace), they put her to death there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:21 - So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been put to death with the sword.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:15 -

Now when Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, he died. He was a hundred and thirty years old at his death.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:22 - Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him, but he murdered his son. And when Zechariah was dying, he said, “May the LORD see this and require an accounting!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:25 -

When they left Joash (for they left him very ill), his own servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they murdered him on his bed. So he died, and they buried him in the City of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:4 - But he did not kill their children; for he did as it is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, “The fathers shall not die for the children, nor the children die for the fathers, but each shall be put to death for his own sin.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:27 - Now from the time that Amaziah turned away from following the LORD, they conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent men after him to Lachish and killed him there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:11 - ‘Is not Hezekiah misleading you in order to let you die by famine and thirst, while saying, “The LORD our God will rescue us from the hand of the king of Assyria?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:24 -

In those days Hezekiah became terminally ill; and he prayed to the LORD, and He answered him and gave him a [miraculous] sign.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:24 - And his servants conspired against him and killed him in his own house (palace).
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:24 - So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in the second chariot which he had, and brought him to Jerusalem where he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
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