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What Does “Guilty of death” Mean in the Bible?

A person accused of a crime, or guilty of it. “Guilty of death” means that he deserves death.

Where it appears in the Bible

Matthew 26:66; Genesis 39:20

What the Bible says

Matthew 26:66

What think you? But they answering, said: He is guilty of death.

Genesis 39:20

And cast Joseph into the prison, where the king’s prisoners were kept, and he was there shut up.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: RAE, “reo”

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