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2 Kings 1:17
“So he died according to the word of the Lord which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H4191 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- [idiom] at all, [idiom] crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), [idiom] must needs, slay, [idiom] surely, [idiom] very suddenly, [idiom] in (no) wise.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יָּ֜מָת — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 839 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:17Genesis 2:17Genesis 3:3Genesis 3:4Genesis 3:4
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מוּת here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.