to die
mut marks a person's death and, in causative forms, causing or sentencing someone to death.
The sampled verses most often use the term for a person’s death, whether reported as an event, anticipated, or threatened. Causative forms describe bringing about another’s death, while passive forms present a person as being put to death.
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A person dies or faces death · dominant
Qal forms report death as an event: in 1 Chronicles 10:5 the APB renders the clause that Saul had died and that his armor-bearer also died, and in 1 Chronicles 1:44 it renders Bela’s death before Jobab reigns in his place. The same use can be prospective or threatened: in 1 Kings 2:37 the APB renders the warning, “you shall surely die,” while in 1 Samuel 14:45 Jonathan is rescued and “he did not die.”
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Cause another person to die · common
Causative forms place an agent in the action of another’s death. In 1 Chronicles 10:14 the Hiphil form occurs where the APB renders that the LORD “put him to death”; in 1 Samuel 22:17 a Hiphil imperative is rendered as the king’s command to “kill the priests.” In 1 Samuel 17:35 David’s first-person Hiphil form occurs in his account of striking and killing the attacking animal.
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Be put to death · occasional
Hophal forms present the person as the recipient of a death sentence or action. In 1 Kings 2:24 the APB renders Adonijah’s outcome as “shall be put to death today,” and in 1 Samuel 11:13 Saul says that no man “shall be put to death on this day.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses the APB renders clauses containing the term with “died” or “die” for personal death, and with “kill” or “put to death” where the morphology and clause show an agent or a recipient of execution. These are renderings of whole translated clauses, definitions.