gava · breathe one's last

What it means

gava (גָּוַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “breathe one's last”.

Expire, die.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To exhale for the last time, die.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• expire ×11
• breathed his last ×4
• expired ×4
• breathed their last ×1
• dying ×1
• expires ×1
• perished ×1
• will perish ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×6
• Numbers×5
• Joshua×1
• Job×8
• Psalms×2
• Lamentations×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 6:17

  And I, look, I am bringing the flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the spirit of life, from under the heavens; everything that is on the earth will perish.

• Genesis 7:21

  And all flesh that moved on the earth perished: birds, livestock, animals, and all the swarming things that swarm on the earth, and all human beings.

• Genesis 25:8

  Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, old and satisfied, and he was gathered to his people.

• Genesis 25:17

  These are the years of the life of Ishmael: a hundred and thirty and seven years. He breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people.

• Genesis 35:29

  Isaac breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days; and Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

• Genesis 49:33

  When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet into the bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.

• Numbers 17:12

  And the sons of Israel said to Moses, saying, “Look, we expire, we perish, all of us perish!

• Numbers 17:13

  Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the dwelling of YHWH, will die. Are we to come to an end and expire?”

• Numbers 20:3

  And the people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had expired when our brothers expired before YHWH!

• Numbers 20:29

  And all the community saw that Aaron had expired, and they wept for Aaron thirty days, all the house of Israel.

• Joshua 22:20

  Did not Achan son of Zerah commit unfaithfulness with the things devoted to destruction, and anger came upon the whole community of Israel? And he, one man, did not expire alone in his iniquity.’”

• Job 3:11

  Why did I not die from the womb, come out from the belly and expire?

• Job 10:18

  Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I would have expired, and no eye would have seen me.

• Job 13:19

  Who is he who will contend with me? For now I would be silent and expire.

• Job 14:10

  But a man dies and is left without strength; a human being expires, and where is he?

• Job 27:5

  Far be it from me that I declare righteous you; until I expire I will not remove my integrity from me.

• Job 29:18

  And I said, ‘With my nest I will expire, and like the sand I will multiply my days.

• Job 34:15

  all flesh would expire together, and the human being to dust would return.

• Job 36:12

  But if they do not hear, by the dart they will pass, and they will expire without knowledge.

• Psalms 88:15

  Afflicted am I and dying from youth; I have borne your terrors; I am bewildered.

• Psalms 104:29

  You hide your face, they are dismayed; you take away their breath, they expire, and to their dust they return.

• Lamentations 1:19

  I called to my lovers; they deceived me; my priests and my elders in the city breathed their last while they sought food for themselves to bring back their life.

• Zechariah 13:8

  And it will happen in all the land, declares YHWH, that two parts in it will be cut off and expire, and the third will be left in it.

And 1 more times.