Biblica Analytica
H4191 Hebrew

מוּת

mut

to die

Lexicon Entry

Definition
to die
Transliteration
mut
Strong's Number
H4191
Occurrences
840
Semantic Domain
Death & Life

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

What Original Readers Understood

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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.

Source data & methodology
Strong's
H4191
Lemma
מוּת
Transliteration
mut
Definition
to die
Occurrences
840
Model
claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
Prompt version
1

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Occurrences in Scripture

840 total occurrences across the text — showing 50

2 Chronicles 21:19

In process of time, at the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of severe diseases. His people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

2 Chronicles 22:9

He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and killed him; and they buried him, for they said, “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with all his heart.” The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.

2 Chronicles 22:10

Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring of the house of Judah.

2 Chronicles 22:11

But Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stealthily rescued him from among the king’s sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn’t kill him.

2 Chronicles 22:11

But Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stealthily rescued him from among the king’s sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn’t kill him.

2 Chronicles 23:7

The Levites shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand. Whoever comes into the house, let him be slain. Be with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out.”

2 Chronicles 23:14

Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t kill her in Yahweh’s house.”

2 Chronicles 23:14

Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t kill her in Yahweh’s house.”

2 Chronicles 23:15

So they made way for her. She went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king’s house; and they killed her there.

2 Chronicles 23:21

So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword.

2 Chronicles 24:15

But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.

2 Chronicles 24:22

Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”

2 Chronicles 24:25

When they had departed from him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David’s city, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings.

2 Chronicles 25:4

But he didn’t put their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”

2 Chronicles 25:4

But he didn’t put their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”

2 Chronicles 25:4

But he didn’t put their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”

2 Chronicles 25:4

But he didn’t put their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”

2 Chronicles 25:27

Now from the time that Amaziah turned away from following Yahweh, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. He fled to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.

2 Chronicles 32:11

Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?’

2 Chronicles 32:24

In those days Hezekiah was terminally ill, and he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign.

2 Chronicles 33:24

His servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house.

2 Chronicles 35:24

So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

Esther 4:11

“All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”

Job 1:19

and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 2:9

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

Job 3:11

“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Job 4:21

Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

Job 5:2

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

Job 9:23

If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

Job 12:2

“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

Job 14:8

Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

Job 14:10

But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

Job 14:14

If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.

Job 21:23

One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

Job 21:25

Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

Job 33:22

Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

Job 34:20

In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.

Job 36:14

They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

Job 42:17

So Job died, being old and full of days.

Psalms 31:12

I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

Psalms 34:21

Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

Psalms 37:32

The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

Psalms 41:5

My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”

Psalms 48:14

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

Psalms 49:10

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Psalms 59:0

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Psalms 82:7

Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers.”

Psalms 88:5

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

Psalms 88:10

Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you?

Psalms 105:29

He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.