Day 10 of 75 · The reign foundations
M-W-T
mawta: death
מותא · נמות
ܡܰܘܬ݁ܳܐ · ܢܡܽܘܬ݂
The feel
Mawta means death, the end of life and the state of having died. It can also mean a death sentence or the threat of death. The noun appears 32 times in the Gospels and the verb, mit, to die, with its causative amit, 73 times. Yeshua uses the word of himself in Gethsemane.
The root family
| Word | Pattern | Script | Standard | Qala rendering |
|---|
| mawta | noun · 32× | ܡܰܘܬ݁ܳܐ | death | death; the threat of death |
| mit | verb, Peal and causative Aphel · 73× | ܡܝܬ | to die | to die; (causative) to put to death |
| mite | participle used as noun, plural | ܡܝܬܐ | the dead | the dead |
The verb appears in the simple Peal, mit, to die (its imperfect nmut means he will die), and in the causative Aphel, amit, to put to death.
In his voice
Matthew 26:38
Then he said to them, "My self is heavy with grief, to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me."
ʿdamma l-mawta, "to the point of death." Yeshua measures his grief against death.
Matthew 16:28
On firm ground, I tell you: some who are standing here will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his reign."
mawta, "taste death." This is a Semitic idiom for dying, in which death is something a person tastes.
Matthew 10:21
Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
l-mawta, "to death." The verse then uses the causative of the same root, put to death. One root covers both dying and causing death.
Practice
Tell one trusted person a hard fact you have been avoiding, without softening it. Then say mawta aloud once, as Yeshua does in Matthew 26:38.
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