Gematria of Death
6 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “death” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 1,002 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 6
- Occurrences
- 1,002
- Distinct values
- 3
The 6 Hebrew words rendered “death”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
First appearance ·Genesis 2:17בראשית ב:יזמוֹת
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
First appearance ·Genesis 21:16בראשית כא:טזבְּמוֹת
'To die for the son', probably the title of a popular song
First appearance ·Psalms 9:1תהלים ט:אעַלְמוּת
a mortal disease; concretely, a corpse
First appearance ·2 Kings 11:2מלכים ב יא:בהממותתים
execution (as a doom)
First appearance ·Psalms 79:11תהלים עט:יאתְמוּתָֽה
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of death?
The Tanakh renders “death” with 6 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: מות = 446, ממות = 486 and תמותה = 851.
How do you say death in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 6 Hebrew words for “death”; the most frequent are מות (mûwth), 997 times; ממות (mâmôwth), 3 times; תמותה (tᵉmûwthâh), 2 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.