- Original: גּוע - Transliteration: Gava` - Phonetic: gaw-vah' - Definition: 1. to expire, die, perish, give up the ghost, yield up the ghost, be dead, be ready to die a. (Qal) to expire, die, be about to die - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 328 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to breathe out that is (by implication) expire: - die be dead give up the ghost perish. Total KJV Occurrences: 24 • dead, 1 Numbers 20:29 • die, 8 Genesis 6:17; Numbers 17:12; Job 27:5; Job 29:18; Job 36:12; Psalm 88:15; Psalm 104:29; Zechariah 13:8 • died, 3 Genesis 7:21; Numbers 20:3(2) • dying, 1 Numbers 17:13 • ghost, 9 Genesis 25:8; Genesis 25:17; Genesis 35:29; Genesis 49:33; Job 3:11; Job 10:18; Job 13:19; Job 14:10; Lamentations 1:19 • perish, 1 Job 34:15 • perished, 1 Joshua 22:20