Words the Bible translates as die
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 7 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- mutמוּתto die: for a living thing to lose its life and stop living.
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- to put to death, to kill: to be the cause of someone's death.
- apothnēskōἀποθνήσκωto die: to come to the end of life, whether of the body, in sin, or to an old way of living.
- koimaōκοιμάωto fall asleep; used for ordinary sleep and, as a gentle picture of death, for dying
- thnēskōθνῄσκωto be dead: to have died already, so that death is now an accomplished fact.
- teleutaōτελευτάωto die: to reach the end of one's life, come to one's end.
- gavaגָּוַעto breathe one's last: to die as the final breath goes out.
- sunapollumiσυναπόλλυμιto die/destroy withnot studied yet
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