Definition

death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin

Etymology

from H4191 (מוּת);

Where the KJV renders it

• (be) dead(-ly)
• death
• die(-d)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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