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מוּת

mutto dieHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb841 occurrences28 books700 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
Traditional renderings: × 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.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders מוּת:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

841 total
  1. Genesis 36:39וַיָּמָת֮ · died
    When Baal-hanan son of Achbor died, Hadad reigned in his place. His city was named Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.
  2. Genesis 37:18לַהֲמִיתֽוֹ׃ · to kill him
    Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.
  3. Genesis 38:7וַיְמִתֵ֖הוּ · put him to death
    But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; so the LORD put him to death.
  4. Genesis 38:10וַיָּ֖מֶת · so He put [Onan] to death
    What he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so He put Onan to death as well.
  5. Genesis 38:11יָמ֥וּת · die
    Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.
  6. Genesis 38:12וַתָּ֖מָת · died
    After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.
  7. Genesis 42:2נָמֽוּת׃ · die
    “Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”
  8. Genesis 42:20תָמ֑וּתוּ · die
    Then bring your youngest brother to me so that your words can be verified, that you may not die.” And to this they consented.
  9. Genesis 42:37תָּמִ֔ית · You may kill
    Then Reuben said to his father, “You may kill my two sons if I fail to bring him back to you. Put him in my care, and I will return him.”
  10. Genesis 42:38מֵ֜ת · is dead
    But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”
  11. Genesis 43:8נָמ֔וּת · die
    And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.
  12. Genesis 44:9וָמֵ֑ת · he must die
    If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord.”
  13. Genesis 44:20מֵ֜ת · is dead
    And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
  14. Genesis 44:22וָמֵֽת׃ · would die
    So we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.’
  15. Genesis 44:31וָמֵ֑ת · he will die
    …sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
  16. Genesis 45:28אָמֽוּת׃ · I die
    “Enough!” declared Israel. “My son Joseph is still alive! I will go to see him before I die.”
  17. Genesis 46:12וַיָּ֨מָת · died
    The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
  18. Genesis 46:30אָמ֣וּתָה · Finally I can die
    Then Israel said to Joseph, “Finally I can die, now that I have seen your face and know that you are still alive!”
  19. Genesis 47:15נָמ֖וּת · should we die
    When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our funds have run out!”
  20. Genesis 47:19נָמ֣וּת · should we perish; נָמ֔וּת · die
    Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”
  21. Genesis 47:29לָמוּת֒ · to die
    When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,
  22. Genesis 48:7מֵ֩תָה֩ · died
    Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).
  23. Genesis 48:21מֵ֑ת · am about to die
    Then Israel said to Joseph, “Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.
  24. Genesis 50:5מֵת֒ · am about to die
    …my father made me swear an oath when he said, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.”
  25. Genesis 50:15מֵ֣ת · was dead
    When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge? Then he will surely repay us for all the evil that we did to him.”
  26. Genesis 50:24מֵ֑ת · am about to die
    Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
  27. Genesis 50:26וַיָּ֣מָת · died
    So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.
  28. Exodus 1:6וַיָּ֤מָת · died
    Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
  29. Exodus 1:16וַהֲמִתֶּ֣ן · kill
    “When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.”
  30. Exodus 2:23וַיָּ֙מָת֙ · died
    After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
  31. Exodus 4:19מֵ֙תוּ֙ · are dead
    Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who sought to kill you are dead.”
  32. Exodus 4:24הֲמִיתֽוֹ׃ · to kill him
    Now at a lodging place along the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him.
  33. Exodus 7:18תָּמ֖וּת · will die
    The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’”
  34. Exodus 7:21מֵ֙תָה֙ · died
    The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. And there was blood throughout the land of Egypt.
  35. Exodus 8:13וַיָּמֻ֙תוּ֙ · died
    And the LORD did as Moses requested, and the frogs in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields died.
  36. Exodus 9:4יָמ֛וּת · will die
    But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that no animal belonging to the Israelites will die.’”
  37. Exodus 9:6וַיָּ֕מָת · died; מֵ֥ת · died
    And the next day the LORD did just that. All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one animal belonging to the Israelites died.
  38. Exodus 9:7מֵ֛ת · had died
    Pharaoh sent officials and found that none of the livestock of the Israelites had died. But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not let the people go.
  39. Exodus 9:19וָמֵֽתוּ׃ · will die
    So give orders now to shelter your livestock and everything you have in the field. Every man or beast that remains in the field and is not brought inside will die when the hail comes down upon them.’”
  40. Exodus 10:28תָּמֽוּת׃ · you will die
    “Depart from me!” Pharaoh said to Moses. “Make sure you never see my face again, for on the day you see my face, you will die.”
  41. Exodus 11:5וּמֵ֣ת · will die
    …and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.
  42. Exodus 12:30מֵֽת׃ · someone dead
    During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.
  43. Exodus 12:33מֵתִֽים׃ · going to die
    And in order to send them out of the land quickly, the Egyptians urged the people on. “For otherwise,” they said, “we are all going to die!”
  44. Exodus 14:11לָמ֣וּת · to die
    They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
  45. Exodus 14:12מִמֻּתֵ֖נוּ · than to die
    Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
  46. Exodus 14:30מֵ֖ת · dead
    That day the LORD saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore.
  47. Exodus 16:3מוּתֵ֤נוּ · we had died; לְהָמִ֛ית · to death
    “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”