מוּת
mut (H4191)
to die
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# The Hebrew Word for Dying: Mut (מוּת) The Hebrew verb *mut* is the primary term for death and dying in the Hebrew Bible, appearing 840 times throughout the text. This frequency alone indicates its fundamental importance to biblical thought and expression. The word's basic meaning—"to die"—encompasses the physical cessation of life across all contexts: humans, animals, and metaphorically, abstract concepts. The extensive occurrence of *mut* across the biblical corpus suggests it functions as the standard, versatile term for mortality in Hebrew. Rather than being limited to a single context or theological framework, its 840 appearances indicate that the concept of dying permeates biblical discourse in varied situations—from narratives about individual deaths to laws concerning capital punishment, from descriptions of natural mortality to theological statements about spiritual consequences. This ubiquity reflects how central the reality of death was to ancient Hebrew understanding and communication. Without additional lexical data specifying nuances, variations in conjugation, or context-dependent meanings, the evidence provided establishes only that *mut* served as the reliable, go-to verb when biblical writers needed to express the idea of death. Its high frequency count confirms it was neither a rare poetic term nor a specialized theological vocabulary word, but rather the everyday, foundational language for discussing one of humanity's most fundamental experiences.
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but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’ ”
All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.
All of the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.
All of the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died.
and all of the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.
All of the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.
All of the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.
All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.
All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.
All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.
The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”
Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”
Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,
“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
“Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”
He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
“No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”
He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.”
“My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”
Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up his spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.
Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”
Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’ ” Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’ ”
Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”
Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.
As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).
Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.
Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avith.
Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his place.
Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.
Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight. So Yahweh killed him.
The thing which he did was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and he killed him also.
Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;” for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
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