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Bible Dictionaries
Die
King James Dictionary
or DIE, See Day.
1. To be deprived of respiration, of the circulation of blood, and other bodily functions, and rendered incapable of resuscitation, as animals, either by natural decay, by disease, or by violence to cease to live to expire to decease to perish and with respect to man, to depart from this world.
All the first born in the land of Egypt shall die. Exodus 11 .
The fish that is in the river shall die. Exodus 7 .
This word is followed by of or by. Men die of disease of a fever of sickness of a fall of grief. They die by the sword by famine by pestilence by violence by sickness by disease. In some cases, custom has established the use of the one, to the exclusion of the other but in many cases, either by or of may be used at the pleasure of the writer or speaker. The use of for, he died for thirst, is not elegant nor common.
2. To be punished with death to lose life for a crime, or for the sake of another.
I will relieve my master, if I die for it. Christ died for the ungodly. Romans 5 .
Christ died for our sins. 1 Corinthians 15 .
3. To come to an end to cease to be lost to perish or come to nothing as, let the secret die in your own breast.
4. To sink to faint.
His heart died withing him, and he became as a stone. 1 Samuel 25 .
5. To languish with pleasure or tenderness followed by away.
To sounds of heavenly harps she dies away.
6. To languish with affection.
The young men acknowledged that they died for Rebecca.
7. To recede as sound, and become less distinct to become less and less or to vanish from the sight, or disappear gradually. Sound or color dies away.
8. To lose vegetable life to wither to perish as plants or seeds. Plants die for want of water. Some plants die annually.
9. To become vapid or spiritless, as liquors mostly used in the participle as the cider or beer is dead.
10. In theology, to perish everlastingly to suffer divine wrath and punishment in the future world.
11. To become indifferent to, or to cease to be under the power of as, to die to sin.
12. To endure great danger and distress.
I die daily. 1 Corinthians 15 .
To die away, to decrease gradually to cease to blow as, the wind dies away.
DIE, n. plu. dice.
1. A small cube, marked on its faces with numbers from one to six, used in gaming, by being thrown from a box.
He ventured his all on the cast of a die.
2. Any cubic body a flat tablet.
3. Hazard chance.
Such is the die of war.
DIE, n. Plu. Dies. A stamp used in coining money, in founderies, &c.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Die'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/d/die.html.
