Hebrew word · Strong's H4191

מוּת

mûwth · mooth · verb · “to die”

In a sentence

Muth means to die. It is the verb of Genesis 2’s warning, the realism of human life under sin, and the surprise of the gospel: a Messiah who would muth for our sins.

Muth is to die. It marks the somber realism of the Old Testament: Adam and Eve are told they will surely muth if they disobey; every patriarch eventually muths; the prophets confront the certainty of death.

Isaiah 53 takes the verb in a startling direction: “he poured out his soul to death (la-muth).” The verb of the curse becomes the verb of the cure — the Messiah dies so we may live.

Strong's reference

Definition: to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill

KJV usage: [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.

Reference gloss from Strong's Concordance (1890, public domain).

Key verses BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

Genesis 2:17 “but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”” Isaiah 53:12 “Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.” Ezekiel 18:32 “For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death, declares the Lord GOD. So repent and live!”

Original BibleDawn word study. Original-language data and the public-domain Strong's (1890) gloss are referenced; see sources.