מוּת

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. Deuteronomy 32:39אָמִ֣ית · bring death
    See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
  2. Deuteronomy 32:50וּמֻ֗ת · you will die; מֵ֞ת · died
    And there on the mountain that you climb, you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.
  3. Deuteronomy 33:6יָמֹ֑ת · die
    Let Reuben live and not die, nor his men be few.”
  4. Deuteronomy 34:5וַיָּ֨מָת · died
    So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, as the LORD had said.
  5. Deuteronomy 34:7בְּמֹת֑וֹ · when he died
    Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.
  6. Joshua 1:2מֵ֑ת · is dead
    “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore arise, you and all these people, and cross over the Jordan into the land that I am giving to the children of Israel.
  7. Joshua 1:18יוּמָ֑ת · will be put to death
    Anyone who rebels against your order and does not obey your words, all that you command him, will be put to death. Above all, be strong and courageous!”
  8. Joshua 2:14לָמ֔וּת · lives
    “Our lives for your lives!” the men agreed. “If you do not report our mission, we will show you kindness and faithfulness when the LORD gives us the land.”
  9. Joshua 5:4מֵ֤תוּ · had died
    Now this is why Joshua circumcised them: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of war—had died on the journey in the wilderness after they had left Egypt.
  10. Joshua 10:11וַיָּמֻ֑תוּ; מֵ֙תוּ֙ · were killed
    As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.
  11. Joshua 10:26וַיְמִיתֵ֔ם · and killed [the kings]
    After this, Joshua struck down and killed the kings, and he hung their bodies on five trees and left them there until evening.
  12. Joshua 11:17וַיְמִיתֵֽם׃ · putting them to death
    …from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and struck them down, putting them to death.
  13. Joshua 20:9יָמ֗וּת · die
    These are the cities appointed for all the Israelites and foreigners among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.
  14. Joshua 24:29וַיָּ֛מָת · died
    Some time later, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.
  15. Joshua 24:33מֵ֑ת · also died
    Eleazar son of Aaron also died, and they buried him at Gibeah, which had been given to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.
  16. Judges 1:7וַיָּ֥מָת · where he died
    Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
  17. Judges 2:8וַיָּ֛מָת · died
    And Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.
  18. Judges 2:19בְּמ֣וֹת · died
    But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.
  19. Judges 2:21וַיָּמֹֽת׃ · when he died
    I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.
  20. Judges 3:11וַיָּ֖מָת · died
    So the land had rest for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.
  21. Judges 3:25מֵֽת׃ · dead
    So they waited until they became worried and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upper room. Then they took the key and opened the doors—and there was their lord lying dead on the floor.
  22. Judges 4:1מֵֽת׃ · died
    After Ehud died, the Israelites again did evil in the sight of the LORD.
  23. Judges 4:21וַיָּמֹֽת׃ · and he died
    But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.
  24. Judges 4:22מֵ֔ת · dead
    When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with a tent peg through his temple.
  25. Judges 5:18לָמ֖וּת
    Zebulun was a people who risked their lives; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the battlefield.
  26. Judges 6:23תָּמֽוּת׃ · die
    But the LORD said to him, “Peace be with you. Do not be afraid, for you will not die.”
  27. Judges 6:30וְיָמֹ֑ת · He must die
    Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has torn down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”
  28. Judges 6:31יוּמַ֖ת · will be put to death
    But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Are you contending for Baal? Are you trying to save him? Whoever pleads his case will be put to death by morning! If Baal is a god, let him contend for himself with the one who has torn down his altar.”
  29. Judges 8:32וַיָּ֛מָת · died
    Later, Gideon son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
  30. Judges 8:33מֵ֣ת · was dead
    And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.
  31. Judges 9:49וַיָּמֻ֜תוּ · killing
    So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.
  32. Judges 9:54וּמ֣וֹתְתֵ֔נִי · and kill me; וַיָּמֹֽת׃ · and he died
    He quickly called his armor-bearer, saying, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” So Abimelech’s armor-bearer ran his sword through him, and he died.
  33. Judges 9:55מֵ֣ת · was dead
    And when the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.
  34. Judges 10:2וַיָּ֖מָת · and when he died
    Tola judged Israel twenty-three years, and when he died, he was buried in Shamir.
  35. Judges 10:5וַיָּ֣מָת · died
    When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.
  36. Judges 12:7וַיָּ֗מָת · died
    Jephthah judged Israel six years, and when he died, he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
  37. Judges 12:10וַיָּ֣מָת · died
    Then Ibzan died, and he was buried in Bethlehem.
  38. Judges 12:12וַיָּ֖מָת · died
    Then Elon the Zebulunite died, and he was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
  39. Judges 12:15וַיָּ֛מָת · died
    Then Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, died, and he was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.
  40. Judges 13:22מ֣וֹת · We are going to die; נָמ֑וּת
    “We are going to die,” he said to his wife, “for we have seen God!”
  41. Judges 13:23לַהֲמִיתֵ֙נוּ֙ · to kill us
    But his wife replied, “If the LORD had intended to kill us, He would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things or spoken to us this way.”
  42. Judges 15:13וְהָמֵ֖ת · kill you; נְמִיתֶ֑ךָ
    “No,” they answered, “we will not kill you, but we will tie you up securely and hand you over to them.” So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.
  43. Judges 15:18אָמ֣וּת · die
    And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
  44. Judges 16:16לָמֽוּת׃ · to death
    Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,
  45. Judges 16:30תָּמ֣וֹת · die
    Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people in it. So in his death he killed more than he had killed in his life.