Die

King James Dictionary

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.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( v. i.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

(2): ( n.) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc.

(3): ( n.) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.

(4): ( n.) That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.

(5): ( n.) A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.

(6): ( v. i.) To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.

(7): ( n.) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.

(8): ( n.) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool.

(9): ( v. i.) To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

(10): ( pl.) of Dice

(11): ( n.) Any small cubical or square body.

(12): ( v. i.) To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

(13): ( v. i.) To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; - often with out or away.

(14): ( v. i.) To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; - said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.

(15): ( v. i.) To suffer death; to lose life.

(16): ( v. i.) To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words

Mûth ( מוּת , Strong'S #4191), “to die, kill.” This verb occurs in all Semitic languages (including biblical Aramaic) from the earliest times, and in Egyptian. The verb occurs about 850 times in biblical Hebrew and in all periods.

Essentially, mûth means to “lose one’s life.” The word is used of physical “death,” with reference to both man and beast. Gen. 5:5 records that Adam lived “nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.” Jacob explains to Esau that, were his livestock to be driven too hard (fast), the young among them would “die” (Gen. 33:13). At one point, this verb is also used to refer to the stump of a plant (Job 14:8). Occasionally, mûth is used figuratively of land (Gen. 47:19) or wisdom (Job 12:2). Then, too, there is the unique hyperbolic expression that Nabal’s heart had “died” within him, indicating that he was overcome with great fear (1 Sam. 25:37).

In an intensive stem, this root is used of the last act inflicted upon one who is already near death. Thus Abimelech, his head having been cracked by a millstone, asked his armor-bearer to “kill” him (Judg. 9:54). In the usual causative stem, this verb can mean “to cause to die” or “to kill”; God is the one who “puts to death” and gives life (Deut. 32:39). Usually, both the subject and object of this usage are personal, although there are exceptions—as when the Philistines personified the ark of the covenant, urging its removal so it would not “kill” them (1 Sam. 5:11). Death in this sense may also be inflicted by animals (Exod. 21:29). This word describes “putting to death” in the broadest sense, including war and judicial sentences of execution (Josh. 10:26).

God is clearly the ultimate Ruler of life and death (cf. Deut. 32:39). This idea is especially clear in the Creation account, in which God tells man that he will surely die if he eats of the forbidden fruit (Gen. 2:17—the first occurrence of the verb). Apparently there was no death before this time. When the serpent questioned Eve, she associated disobedience with death (Gen. 3:3). The serpent repeated God’s words, but negated them (Gen. 3:4). When Adam and Eve ate of the fruit, both spiritual and physical death came upon Adam and Eve and their descendants (cf. Rom. 5:12). They experienced spiritual death immediately, resulting in their shame and their attempt to cover their nakedness (Gen. 3:7). Sin and/or the presence of spiritual death required a covering, but man’s provision was inadequate; so God made a perfect covering in the form of a promised redeemer (Gen. 3:15) and a typological covering of animal skins (Gen. 3:21).

Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types

 Genesis 2:17 (b) The word is used here to describe various experiences of human beings.

(1). The death of the body to this world.

(2). The death of the soul to GOD.

(3). The death of the Christian to worldly and wicked desires.

(4). The final separation from GOD when the soul and body together are cast into the lake of fire to be forever punished.

 1 Corinthians 15:31 (a) Paul is telling us here that it is his daily experience to consider himself dead to sin and to the sinful calls of the world. It is his constant experience for sin is constantly appealing to us for satisfaction.

 2 Corinthians 6:9 (a) The word refers to the experience of laying aside the things that displease the Lord and becoming unresponsive to the calls and demands of sin.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

(מוּת , mūth , גּוע , gāwa‛  ; ἀποθνήσκω , apothnḗskō , τελευτάω , teleutáō ): "To die," etc., is of very frequent occurrence, and in the Old Testament is generally the translation of mūth , meaning perhaps originally, "to be stretched out" or "prostrate." "To die," should be the consequence of eating the forbidden fruit ( Genesis 2:17; compare  Genesis 20:7;  2 Kings 1:4 ,  2 Kings 1:6 ). "Die" is commonly used of natural death (  Genesis 5:8;  Genesis 25:8 ). It is used also of violent death (  Genesis 26:9 ,  Genesis 26:11;  Exodus 21:20 ); punitive (  Exodus 19:12;  Exodus 21:12 ,  Exodus 21:14;  Exodus 28:43;  Numbers 4:15;  Ezekiel 3:1 :8ff); as the result of willfulness or indifference (  Proverbs 10:21;  Proverbs 15:10;  Proverbs 19:16 ). To die " the death of the righteous " is something to be desired ( Numbers 23:10 ).

In the New Testament the word for "to die," etc., is generally apothnēskō , "to die off or away," used of dying in all forms: of natural death (  Matthew 22:24 ); of violent death (  John 11:50 ,  John 11:51;  John 19:7;  Acts 25:11 ); of the death of Christ (  John 12:33 ); of death as the consequence of sin (  John 8:21 ,  John 8:24;  Romans 8:13 ); teleutaō , "to end (life)," also occurs several times ( Matthew 15:4 ); thnḗsko , "to die," occurs once ( John 11:21 ), and apóllumi , "to destroy" ( John 18:14 ); in  Acts 25:16 (Textus Receptus) we have eis apō̇leian , "to destruction."

The figurative use of "to die" is not frequent, if indeed it ever occurs. In   1 Samuel 25:37 it may be equivalent to "faint," "His heart died within him, and he became as a stone," but this may be meant literally. In   Amos 2:2 it is said that Moab "shall die," i.e. perish as a nation. Paul describes the condition of the apostles of Christ as "dying, and behold, we live" (  2 Corinthians 6:9 ), and says, "I die daily" ( 1 Corinthians 15:31 ), but the references may be to exposure to death. When in  Romans 7:9 he says, "When the commandment came ... I died," he may mean that it rendered him liable to death. In   Romans 6:2 we have "we who died to sin," i.e. in Christ, and in our acceptance of His death as representing ours; similarly we read in   2 Corinthians 5:14 , "One died for all, therefore all died" (Revised Version (British and American)), i.e. representatively , and in  Colossians 2:20 "if ye died with Christ";   Colossians 3:3 , "for ye died," the Revised Version (British and American) (in Christ). Compare  2 Timothy 2:11;  1 Peter 2:24 .

Of the changes in the Revised Version (British and American) may be mentioned "abode" for "died" ( Genesis 25:18 , margin "or settled, Hebrew fell"); "he that is to die" for "worthy of death" ( Deuteronomy 17:6 ); "died" for "are dead" ( John 6:49 ,  John 6:58 , and the American Standard Revised Version  John 8:52 ,  John 8:53 ); "though he die" for "were dead" ( John 11:25 ); "many died" for "were dead" ( Romans 5:15 ); "died for nought" for "in vain" ( Galatians 2:21 ); "when his end was nigh" for "died" ( Hebrews 11:22 ). Of special importance are the changes from "be, are, were, dead" in  Romans 6:2 ,  Romans 6:7 ,  Romans 6:8;  2 Corinthians 5:14;  Colossians 2:20;  Colossians 3:3;  2 Timothy 2:11 , and "having died" for "being dead" in  1 Peter 2:24 , as bringing out the truth that in the sight of God all men died in Christ. See also Death .