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The passage in Job (Job 26:5 ), wherein in the King James Version "dead things" seem to mean things that never had life, is more accurately translated in the Revised Version (British and American) as "they that are deceased," i.e. the shades of the dead.
There are few references to the physical accompaniments of the act of dying. Deborah has a poetical account of the death of Sisera (Judges 5:24 ), and in Ecclesiastes 12:1-14 , where the failure of the bodily faculties in old age culminates in death, it is pictorially compared to the breaking of a lamp extinguishing the flame ("golden" being probably used of "oil," as it is in Zechariah 4:12 ), and the loosing of the silver
The dead body defiled those who touched it (Leviticus 11:31 ) and therefore sepulture took place speedily, as in the case of Lazarus (Jn 11:17-39) and Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:6-10 ). This practice is still followed by the fellahin.
The uselessness of the dead is the subject of proverb (Ecclesiastes 9:4 ) and the phrase "dead dog" is used as a contemptuous epithet as of a person utterly worthless (1 Samuel 24:14 ; 2 Samuel 9:8 ; 2 Samuel 16:9 ).
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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Dead'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/isb/d/dead.html. 1915.