Hebrew word · Strong's H4194

מָוֶת

mâveth · maw'-veth · noun · “death”

In a sentence

Maweth means death — the great enemy that sin brought into the world. The Old Testament longs for the day God will “swallow up death forever” — fulfilled in Christ’s resurrection.

Maweth is the Hebrew word for death — both physical and, in the prophets, the spiritual ruin sin produces. It enters the story in Genesis 3 as the sentence on sin.

But God promises to undo it: “He will swallow up death forever” (Isaiah 25:8). The New Testament announces that promise fulfilled in Jesus, who “tasted death for everyone” and was raised, breaking maweth’s grip.

Strong's reference

Definition: death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin

KJV usage: (be) dead(-ly), death, die(-d).

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

Key verses BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

Isaiah 25:8 “He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.” 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.”” 1 Corinthians 15:54 “When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.””

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