Topic
Dead
25 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 20:3ISBE
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.
- Genesis 23:1–20ISBE
And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah. And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. ¶ And Abraham stood up…
- Exodus 12:33ISBE
And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
- Leviticus 11:31ISBE
These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
- Numbers 16:48ISBE
And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
- Deuteronomy 14:8ISBE
And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.
- Judges 5:24ISBE
Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
- 1 Samuel 24:14ISBE
After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
- 2 Samuel 9:8ISBE
And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
- 2 Samuel 12:19ISBE
But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
- 2 Samuel 16:9ISBE
¶ Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
- Job 26:5ISBE
Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
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- Psalms 76:6 ISBE
- Ecclesiastes 9:4 ISBE
- Ecclesiastes 12:1–14 ISBE
- Zechariah 4:12 ISBE
- Mark 5:35 ISBE
- John 11:17–39 ISBE
- Acts 5:6–10 ISBE
- Romans 4:19 ISBE
- Ephesians 2:1 ISBE
- Colossians 2:20 ISBE
- Hebrews 11:12 ISBE
- James 2:17 ISBE
- Revelation 20:12 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 26 references
ded (muth; nekros): Used in several senses:
(1) as a substantive, denoting the body deprived of life, as when Abraham speaks of burying his dead (Ge 23);
(2) as a collective noun including all those that have passed away from life (as Re 20:12). In several passages dead in this sense is used in contrast to the quick or living (as Nu 16:48). This collective mode of expression is used when resurrection is described as "rising from the dead";
(3) as an adjective, coupled with body, carcass or man, as De 14:8 the King James Version;
(4) most frequently it is used as a complement of the verb "to be," referring to the condition of being deceased or the period of death, e. g. 2Sa 12:19; Mr 5:35;
(5) in the sense of being liable to death it occurs in Ge 20:3; Ex 12:33; 2Sa 16:9;
(6) as an intensive adjective it is used in the phrase "dead sleep," to mean profound sleep simulating death (Ps 76:6);
(7) figuratively "dead" is used to express the spiritual condition of those who are unable to attain to the life of faith. They are dead in trespasses, as in Eph 2:1, or conversely, those who by the New Birth are delivered from sin, are said to be dead to the Law (as Col 2:20, etc.). A faith which does not show its life in the practical virtues of Christianity is called dead (Jas 2:17);
(8) in Ro 4:19; Heb 11:12, "dead" signifies the senile condition of loss of vigor and virility.
The passage in Job 26:5, wherein in the King James Version "dead things" seem to mean things that never had life, is more accurately translated in the Revised Version (British and American) as "they that are deceased," i.e. the shades of the dead.
There are few references to the physical accompaniments of the act of dying. Deborah has a poetical account of the death of Sisera (Jud 5:24 ff), and in Ec 12, where the failure of the bodily faculties in old age culminates in death, it is pictorially compared to the breaking of a lamp extinguishing the flame ("golden" being probably used of "oil," as it is in Zec 4:12), and the loosing of the silver chebhel or chain by which the lamp is suspended in the tent of the Arabic.
The dead body defiled those who touched it (Le 11:31) and therefore sepulture took place speedily, as in the case of Lazarus (Joh 11:17-39) and Ananias and Sapphira (Ac 5:6-10). This practice is still followed by the fellahin.
The uselessness of the dead is the subject of proverb (Ec 9:4) and the phrase "dead dog" is used as a contemptuous epithet as of a person utterly worthless (1Sa 24:14; 2Sa 9:8; 16:9).
Alex. Macalister
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.