H4194

• {"n":"mavet","s":"Death. Also personified, and paired with Sheol in the poetry.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=mavet","r":"Deuteronomy 30:19","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads death."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**Death came for him.** English personifies it too, in poetry and in idiom, without believing anything in particular."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Mavet is the event and also a power that swallows. It is paired with Sheol in poetic parallel, and at Ugarit Mot is the name of a deity, which is background rather than proof."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English personifies the same way, so the poetry translates well."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"A personified abstraction in Hebrew poetry is not automatically a claim about a being. Check the genre before the theology."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Death is universal."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05de\u05b8\u05d5\u05b6\u05ea mavet \u00b7 H4194"}],"src":["mavet with Sheol: Psalm 18:5; Hosea 13:14","Personified: Jeremiah 9:21; Job 18:13","Mot in the Ugaritic texts as background"]}