Death: 8 definitions
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Source: archive.org: Easton's Bible DictionaryDeath definition and references: May be simply defined as the termination of life. It is represented under a variety of aspects in Scripture: (1.) “The dust shall return to the earth as it was” (Ecclesiastes 12:7).
(2.) “Thou takest away their breath, they die” (Psalms 104:29).
(3.) It is the dissolution of “our earthly house of this tabernacle” (2 Corinthians 5:1); the “putting off this tabernacle” (2 Pet. 1:13, 14).
(4.) Being “unclothed” (2 Corinthians 5:3, 4).
(5.) “Falling on sleep” (Psalms 76:5; Jeremiah 51:39; Acts 13:36; 2 Pet. 3:9.
(6.) “I go whence I shall not return” (Job 10:21); “Make me to know mine end” (Psalms 39:4); “to depart” (Philemon 1:23).
The grave is represented as “the gates of death” (Job 38:17; Psalms 9:13; 107:18). The gloomy silence of the grave is spoken of under the figure of the “shadow of death” (Jeremiah 2:6).
Death is the effect of sin (Hebrews 2:14), and not a “debt of nature.” It is but once (9:27), universal (Genesis 3:19), necessary (Luke 2:28-30). Jesus has by his own death taken away its sting for all his followers (1 Corinthians 15:55-57).
There is a spiritual death in trespasses and sins, i.e., the death of the soul under the power of sin (Romans 8:6; Ephesians 2:1, 3; Colossians 2:13).
The “second death” (Revelation 2:11) is the everlasting perdition of the wicked (Revelation 21:8), and “second” in respect to natural or temporal death.
The Death Of Christ is the procuring cause incidentally of all the blessings men enjoy on earth. But specially it is the procuring cause of the actual salvation of all his people, together with all the means that lead thereto. It does not make their salvation merely possible, but certain (Matthew 18:11; Romans 5:10; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 1:4; 3:13; Ephesians 1:7; 2:16; Romans 8:32-35).
Source: archive.org: Nave's Topical BibleDeath definition and references: –Miscellaneous Subjects
–Called Giving Up The Ghost Genesis 25:8; 35:29; Lamentations 1:19; Acts 5:10
–King Of Terrors Job 18:14
–A Change Job 14:14
–Going To Thy Fathers Genesis 15:15; 25:8; 35:29
–Putting Off This Tabernacle 2 Peter 1:14
–Requiring The Soul Luke 12:20
–Going The Way Whence There Is No Return Job 16:22
–Being Gathered To Our People Genesis 49:33
–Going Down Into Silence Psalms 115:17
–Returning To Dust Genesis 3:19; Psalms 104:29
–Being Cut Down Job 14:2
–Fleeing As A Shadow Job 14:2
–Departing Philippians 2:23
–Called Sleep Deuteronomy 31:16; Job 7:21; 14:12; Jeremiah 51:39;
Daniel 12:2; John 11:11; Acts 7:60; 13:36; 1 Corinthians 15:6,18,51; 1 Thessalonians 4:14,15
–Exemption From
–Enoch Genesis 5:24; Hebrews 11:5
–Elijah 2 Kings 2
–Promised to saints at the second coming of Christ 1 Corinthians
15:51; 1 Thessalonians 4:15,17
–No death in heaven Luke 20:36; Revelation 21:4
–Desired Jeremiah 8:3; Revelation 9:6
–By Moses Numbers 11:15
–Elijah 1 Kings 19:4
–Job Job 3; 6:8-11; 7:1-3,15,16; 10:1; 14:13
–Jonah Jonah 4:8
–Simeon Luke 2:29
–Paul 2 Corinthians 5:2,8; Philippians 1:20-23
–As A Judgment
–Upon the Antediluvians Genesis 6:7,11-13
–Sodomites Genesis 19:12,13,24,25
–Saul 1 Chronicles 10:13,14
–Symbolized
–By the pale horse Revelation 6:8
–King of Terrors Job 18:14
–Apostrophe To Hosea 13:14; 1 Corinthians 15:55
–Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Genesis 2:17; 3:19;
27:2; Deuteronomy 32:39; Joshua 23:14; 1 Samuel 2:6; 20:2,3; 2 Samuel 1:23; 14:14; Job 1:21; 3:13,17-19;
7:1,8-10,21; 10:21,22; 14:2,5-12,14,19-21; 16:22; 17:13,14,16; 21:23,25,26,32,33;
30:23; 34:14,15; 36:18,19; 38:17; Psalms 6:5; 23:4; 30:9; 39:4,13; 49:7,9; 68:20; 82:7;
88:9-14; 89:48; 90:3; 103:14-16; 104:29; 115:17; 143:3; 144:4; 146:4; Ecclesiastes 2:14-18;
3:2,19-21; 4:2; 5:15; 6:6,10; 7:1,2,15; 8:8; 9:3,5,6,10; 12:5,7; Isaiah 25:8; 38:1,10-13,18;
40:7; 51:12; Jeremiah 9:21; Hosea 13:14; Zechariah 1:5; Matthew 10:28; Luke 20:34-38; 23:39-43; John 9:4;
Romans 5:12,14; 1 Corinthians 15:21,22,26,55-57; Timothy 6:7; 2imothy 1:10; Hebrews 2:14,15; 9:27; 13:14;
James 1:10,11; 1 Peter 1:24; Revelation 1:18; 20:12-14; 21:4
–Preparation For Deuteronomy 32:29; 2 Kings 20:1; Psalms 39:4,13; 90:12;
Ecclesiastes 9:4,10; 11:7,8; Isaiah 38:18,19; Luke 12:35-37; John 9:4; Romans 14:8; Philippians 1:21; Hebrews 13:14;
James 4:15; 1 Peter 1:17
–Of The Righteous Numbers 23:10; 2 Samuel 12:23; 2 Kings 22:19,20;
Psalms 23:4; 31:5; 37:37; 49:15; 73:24; 116:15; Proverbs 14:32; Ecclesiastes 7:1; Isaiah 57:1,2; Daniel 12:13;
Luke 2:29; 16:22; 23:43; John 11:11; Acts 7:59; Romans 14:7,8; 1 Corinthians 3:21-23; 15:51-57; 2 Corinthians
1:9,10; 5:1,4,8; Philippians 1:20,21,23,24; 1 Thessalonians 4:13,14; 5:9,10; 2imothy 4:6-8; Hebrews 2:14,15;
11:13; 2 Peter 1:11,14; Revelation 14:13
–Scenes Of
–Death Of Isaac Genesis 27:1-4,22-40
–Death Of Jacob Genesis 49:1-33; Hebrews 11:21
–Death Of Moses Deuteronomy 31:14-30; 32:1-52; 33:1-29; 34:1-7
–Death Of David 1 Kings 2:1-10
–Death Of Zechariah 2 Chronicles 24:22
–Death Of Jesus Matthew 27:34-53; Mark 15:23-38; Luke 23:27-49;
John 19:16-30
–Death Of Stephen Acts 7:59,60
–Death Of Paul 2imothy 4:6-8
–Of The Wicked Numbers 16:30; 1 Samuel 25:38; 2 Chronicles 21:6,20; Job
4:21; 18:14,18; 20:4,5,8,11; 21:13,17,18,23-26; 24:20,24; 27:8,19-23; 34:20; 36:12,14,18,20;
Psalms 37:1,2,9,10,35,36; 49:7,9,10,14,17,19,20; 55:23; 58:9; 73:3,4,17-20; 78:50; 92:7;
Proverbs 2:22; 5:22,23; 10:25,27; 11:7,10; 13:9; 14:32; 21:16; 24:20; 29:1,16; Ecclesiastes 8:10;
Isaiah 14:11,15; 17:14; 26:14; Jeremiah 16:3,4; Ezekiel 28:8,10; Amos 9:10; Luke 12:20; 16:22-28;
Acts 5:3-10; 1 Thessalonians 5:3
–Spiritual Luke 1:79; John 5:24-26; 6:50,51,53; 11:26;
Romans 5:12,15; 7:11; 8:5,6,12,13; 2 Corinthians 5:14; Ephesians 2:1,5,6; 4:18; 5:14; Colossians 2:13; Timothy
5:6; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 5:12
–See Depravity
–See Man, State Of After The Fall
–See Reprobacy
–Second Proverbs 14:12; Ezekiel 18:4,10,13,21,23,24; 33:8,9,11,14-16;
Matthew 7:13; 10:28; 25:30,41,46; Mark 9:43,44; Romans 1:32; 6:16,21,23; 8:13; 9:22; 2 Thessalonians 1:9;
James 1:15; 4:12; 2 Peter 2:12; Revelation 2:11; 19:20; 20:14; 21:8
–See Hell
–See Wicked, Punishment Of
–Figurative Of Regeneration Romans 6:2-11; 7:1-10; 8:10,11;
Colossians 2:20
–See Dead
–See Regeneration
Death refers to:—Since death can be regarded in various points of view, the descriptions of it must necessarily vary. If we consider the state of a dead man, as it strikes the senses, death is the cessation of natural life. If we consider the cause of death, we may place it in that permanent and entire cessation of the feeling and motion of the body which results from the destruction of the body. Among theologians, death is commonly said to consist in the separation of soul and body, implying that the soul still exists when the body perishes. Death does not consist in this separation, but this separation is the consequence of death. As soon as the body loses feeling and motion, it is henceforth useless to the soul, which is therefore separated from it.
Scriptural representations, names, and modes of speech respecting death:
(a.) One of the most common in the Old Testament is, to return to the dust, or to the earth. Hence the phrase, the dust of death. It is founded on the description; , and denotes the dissolution and destruction of the body. Hence the sentiment in , 'The dust shall return to the earth as it was, the spirit unto God who gave it.'
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Source: archive.org: Hastings' Dictionary of the BibleDeath refers to:—
I. In the OT. 1.The Heb. term maweth and our corresponding word ‘death’ alike spring from primitive roots belonging to the very beginnings of speech. One of man’s first needs was a word to denote that stark fact of experience the final cessation of life to which he and the whole animated creation, and the very trees and plants, were all subject. It is, of course, in this ordinary sense of the term as denoting a physical fact that the expressions ‘death’ and ‘die’ are mostly used in the Scriptures.
2.The Scriptures have nothing directly to say as to the place of death in the economy of nature. St. Paul’s words in Romans 5:12 ff. as to the connexion between sin and death must be explained in harmony with this fact; and, for that matter, in harmony also with his own words in Romans 6:23 , where death, the ‘wages of sin,’ cannot be simply physical death. The Creation narratives are silent on this point, yet in Genesis 2:17 man is expected to know what it is to die. We are not to look for exact information on matters such as this from writings of this kind. If the belief enshrined in the story of the Fall in Genesis 3:1-24 regarded death in the ordinary sense as the penalty of Adam and Eve’s transgression, they at any rate did not die ‘in the day’ of their transgression; v. 22 suggests that even then, could he but also eat of ‘the tree of life,’ man might escape mortality. All we can say is that in the dawn of human history man appears as one already familiar with the correlative mysteries of life and death.
3.From the contemplation of the act of dying it is an easy step to the thought of death as a state or condition. This is a distinct stage towards believing in existence of some kind beyond the grave. And to the vast mass of mankind to say ‘he is dead’ has never meant ‘he is non-existent.’
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