מָוֶת mâveth — death (natural or violent)
Translated in the KJV as dead, death, die.
from H4191; death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin.
mâveth in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive construct 1
And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›