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Strong's H4194 מָוֶת (maveth)

Maveth means “death” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G4194 — pontios (“Pontius”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H4194
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 152
Books 27

Strong's H4194 Quick Answer

Strong's H4194 מָוֶת (maveth) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. maveth (maw'-veth) n-m. 1. death (natural or violent) 2. (concretely) the dead, their place or state (hades) It has 152 linked Bible usages across 27 books. Visible English usage signals include death, dead, natural, and place. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
maveth (maw'-veth) n-m. 1. death (natural or violent) 2. (concretely) the dead, their place or state (hades)
Usage
152 linked usages
Books
27 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
death, dead, natural, and place

Meaning and Definition

maveth (maw'-veth) n-m. 1. death (natural or violent) 2. (concretely) the dead, their place or state (hades) 3. (figuratively) pestilence, ruin [from H4191] KJV: (be) dead((-ly)), death, die(-d). Root(s): H4191

Original Word
מָוֶת
Transliteration
maveth
Derivation
Root: מות First root strongs: 4191
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4194. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

death

Usage: 1) death, dying, Death (personified), realm of the dead 1a) death 1b) death by violence (as a penalty) 1c) state of death, place of death Aramaic equivalent: mot (מוֹת "death" H4193)

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How Strong's H4194 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render maveth, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

death Genesis 21:16 100× dead Leviticus 11:31 natural Deuteronomy 34:7 place 1 Samuel 5:11

How Strong's H4194 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 152 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H4194 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H4194 in the Old Testament

152 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 21:16 KJV

And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

Genesis 25:11 KJV

And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.

Genesis 26:18 KJV

And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4194.

Genesis 21:16 Old Testament, KJV
And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
Genesis 25:11 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.
Genesis 26:18 Old Testament, KJV
And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
Genesis 27:2 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
Genesis 27:7 Old Testament, KJV
Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
Genesis 27:10 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
Genesis 50:16 Old Testament, KJV
And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,
Exodus 10:17 Old Testament, KJV
Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.
Leviticus 11:31 Old Testament, KJV
These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 11:32 Old Testament, KJV
And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.
Leviticus 16:1 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died;
Numbers 6:7 Old Testament, KJV
He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.
Numbers 16:29 Old Testament, KJV
If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.
Numbers 23:10 Old Testament, KJV
Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
Numbers 26:10 Old Testament, KJV
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
Numbers 33:39 Old Testament, KJV
And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.
Numbers 35:25 Old Testament, KJV
And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.
Numbers 35:28 Old Testament, KJV
Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
Numbers 35:32 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
Deuteronomy 19:6 Old Testament, KJV
Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
Deuteronomy 21:22 Old Testament, KJV
And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
Deuteronomy 22:26 Old Testament, KJV
But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
Deuteronomy 30:15 Old Testament, KJV
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
Deuteronomy 30:19 Old Testament, KJV
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Deuteronomy 31:27 Old Testament, KJV
For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
Deuteronomy 31:29 Old Testament, KJV
For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy 33:1 Old Testament, KJV
And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
Deuteronomy 34:7 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Joshua 1:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
Joshua 2:13 Old Testament, KJV
And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.
Joshua 20:6 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
Judges 1:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
Judges 13:7 Old Testament, KJV
But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
Judges 16:30 Old Testament, KJV
And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
Ruth 1:17 Old Testament, KJV
Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
Ruth 2:11 Old Testament, KJV
And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.
1 Samuel 5:11 Old Testament, KJV
So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
1 Samuel 15:32 Old Testament, KJV
Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
1 Samuel 15:35 Old Testament, KJV
And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
1 Samuel 20:3 Old Testament, KJV
And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
1 Samuel 20:31 Old Testament, KJV
For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.
1 Samuel 26:16 Old Testament, KJV
This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.
2 Samuel 1:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;
2 Samuel 1:23 Old Testament, KJV
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
2 Samuel 3:33 Old Testament, KJV
And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
2 Samuel 6:23 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.
2 Samuel 12:5 Old Testament, KJV
And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:
2 Samuel 15:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.
2 Samuel 19:28 Old Testament, KJV
For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
2 Samuel 20:3 Old Testament, KJV
And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
2 Samuel 22:5 Old Testament, KJV
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
2 Samuel 22:6 Old Testament, KJV
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
1 Kings 2:26 Old Testament, KJV
And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the LORD God before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
1 Kings 11:40 Old Testament, KJV
Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
2 Kings 1:1 Old Testament, KJV
Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
2 Kings 2:21 Old Testament, KJV
And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
2 Kings 3:5 Old Testament, KJV
But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
2 Kings 4:40 Old Testament, KJV
So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.
2 Kings 14:17 Old Testament, KJV
And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
2 Kings 15:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land.
1 Chronicles 2:24 Old Testament, KJV
And after that Hezron was dead in Calebephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.
1 Chronicles 22:5 Old Testament, KJV
And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.
2 Chronicles 22:4 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.
2 Chronicles 24:15 Old Testament, KJV
But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
2 Chronicles 24:17 Old Testament, KJV
Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
2 Chronicles 26:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.
2 Chronicles 32:33 Old Testament, KJV
And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
Esther 2:7 Old Testament, KJV
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Job 3:21 Old Testament, KJV
Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Job 5:20 Old Testament, KJV
In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
Job 7:15 Old Testament, KJV
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Job 18:13 Old Testament, KJV
It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
Job 27:15 Old Testament, KJV
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
Job 28:22 Old Testament, KJV
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
Job 30:23 Old Testament, KJV
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Job 38:17 Old Testament, KJV
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Psalms 6:5 Old Testament, KJV
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
Psalms 7:13 Old Testament, KJV
He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
Psalms 9:13 Old Testament, KJV
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
Psalms 13:3 Old Testament, KJV
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Psalms 18:4 Old Testament, KJV
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
Psalms 18:5 Old Testament, KJV
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
Psalms 22:15 Old Testament, KJV
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Psalms 33:19 Old Testament, KJV
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
Psalms 49:14 Old Testament, KJV
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
Psalms 49:17 Old Testament, KJV
For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
Psalms 55:4 Old Testament, KJV
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Psalms 56:13 Old Testament, KJV
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Psalms 68:20 Old Testament, KJV
He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
Psalms 73:4 Old Testament, KJV
For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
Psalms 78:50 Old Testament, KJV
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
Psalms 89:48 Old Testament, KJV
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Psalms 107:18 Old Testament, KJV
Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
Psalms 116:3 Old Testament, KJV
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 116:8 Old Testament, KJV
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Psalms 116:15 Old Testament, KJV
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
Psalms 118:18 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.
Proverbs 2:18 Old Testament, KJV
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
Proverbs 5:5 Old Testament, KJV
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Proverbs 7:27 Old Testament, KJV
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Proverbs 8:36 Old Testament, KJV
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Proverbs 10:2 Old Testament, KJV
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 11:4 Old Testament, KJV
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 11:7 Old Testament, KJV
When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
Proverbs 11:19 Old Testament, KJV
As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
Proverbs 12:28 Old Testament, KJV
In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
Proverbs 13:14 Old Testament, KJV
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs 14:12 Old Testament, KJV
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs 14:27 Old Testament, KJV
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs 14:32 Old Testament, KJV
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
Proverbs 16:14 Old Testament, KJV
The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
Proverbs 16:25 Old Testament, KJV
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs 18:21 Old Testament, KJV
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Proverbs 21:6 Old Testament, KJV
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Proverbs 24:11 Old Testament, KJV
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
Proverbs 26:18 Old Testament, KJV
As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
Ecclesiastes 3:19 Old Testament, KJV
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 7:1 Old Testament, KJV
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
Ecclesiastes 7:26 Old Testament, KJV
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Ecclesiastes 8:8 Old Testament, KJV
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4194, grouped by book.

Genesis 7 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Old Testament
Leviticus 3 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 8 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 9 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 3 usages, Old Testament
Judges 3 usages, Old Testament
Ruth 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 6 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 10 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 6 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 5 usages, Old Testament
Esther 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 8 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 21 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 19 usages, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 5 usages, Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 8 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 11 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezekiel 5 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament
Jonah 3 usages, Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H4194 FAQ

What does maveth (מָוֶת) mean?

Maveth (Strong's H4194) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "death". maveth (maw'-veth) n-m. 1. death (natural or violent) 2. (concretely) the dead, their place or state (hades)

How many times is maveth (מָוֶת) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 152 linked usages for Strong's H4194 across 27 books.

Where can I study maveth (מָוֶת) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4194 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate maveth (מָוֶת)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as death, dead, natural, and place. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.