the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Strong's #4962 - מֹת
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- male, man
- males, men
- few men (in prose)
- less emphasis on sex
- men (poetic)
- less emphasis on sex
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1298) tm (מת MT) AC: Die CO: Man AB: Mortality: The pictograph m is a picture of water representing chaos, the t is a picture of two crossed sticks representing a mark or sign. Combined these mean "chaos mark". The length of time that something exists and ends. (eng: mute; moot - as a dead point; mortal - with an additional r and l; mate - of "check mate" meaning "king is dead")
A) tm (מת MT) AC: ? CO: Man AB: Mortality: A length of time that comes to an end.
Nm) tm (מת MT) - Man: As mortal. KJV (22): man, few, friend, number, person, small - Strongs: H4962 (מֹת)
fm) itm (מתי MTY) - When: An unknown duration of time. KJV (3): when, long - Strongs: H4970 (מָתַי)
J) tfm (מות MWT) AC: Die CO: ? AB: Death: The end of time for what has died.
V) tfm (מות MWT) - Die: KJV (835): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Hophal) die, dead, slay, death - Strongs: H4191 (מוּת)
Nm) tfm (מות MWT) - Death: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (163): death, die, dead, deadly, slay - Strongs: H4192 (מוּת), H4193 (מוֹת), H4194 (מָוֶת)
am) tfmm (ממות MMWT) - Death: KJV (2): death - Strongs: H4463 (מָמוֹת)
if1) etfmt (תמותה TMWTH) - Death: KJV (2): death, die - Strongs: H8546 (תְּמוּתָה)
Adopted Roots:
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
id.; compare Egyptian m-t, phallus, male, Steind in Ba NB § 2 b, δ); — only plural מְתִים Job 11:3 3t., מְתִם Deuteronomy 2:34; Deuteronomy 3:6 + Judges 20:48 (probably), for ᵑ0מְתֹם, so GFM; construct מְתֵי Genesis 34:30 13t.; suffix 2 feminine singular מְתַיִךְ; Isaiah 3:25; 3 masculine singular מְתָיו Deuteronomy 33:6; — 1 males, men, Isaiah 3:25 ("" גְּבוּרָתֵךְ); more distinctly, וְהַטָּף(וְ)הַנָּשִׁים מְתִםעִיר Deuteronomy 2:34; Deuteronomy 3:6 every city of males (male population, compare Dr), and the women, etc.; Judges 20:48 (see above; opposed to בְּהֵמָה).
2 usually less emphasis on sex, in prose only phrase:
a.מְתֵי מִסְמָּר men of number (numerable, i.e. few) Genesis 34:30 (J; apposition of אֲנִי = Jacob, representing his family), Deuteronomy 4:27; Jeremiah 44:28, also Psalm 105:12 = 1 Chronicles 16:19; compare וִיהִי מְתָיו מִסְמָּר Deuteronomy 33:6 and (but) let his men be few.
b.בִּמְתֵי מְעָ֑ט = consisting of a few men Deuteronomy 26:5; Deuteronomy 28:62
3 elsewhere only in poetry, sex usually not emphasized:
a. Job 11:3; Job 24:12; Psalm 17:14 (twice in verse) (but text probably corrupt, of. Bae We; at least omit ממתים ידך Ol Bi Che, compare Hup-Now); מְתֵי ישׂראל Isaiah 41:14.
b. poetic phrase: מְתֵי שָׁוְא men of false-hood Job 11:11; Psalm 26:4; אָוֶן׳מ Psalm 22:15 men of wickedness; סוֺדִי׳מ Psalm 19:19 men of my cycle; אָהֳלִי׳מ Job 31:31 men of my tent (household); רָעָב׳מ Isaiah 5:13 men of hunger, but read probably ׳מְזֵי ר sucked out, empty from hunger (as Deuteronomy 32:24) Ew De Che Di Du (compare מָזֶה).
