Je was op zoek naar: umekufa (Swahili - Engels)

basi, kama vile mwili bila roho umekufa, vivyo hivyo imani bila matendo imekufa.
for as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

alikuwa mzee wa karibu miaka mia moja, lakini imani yake haikufifia ingawa alijua kwamba mwili wake ulikuwa kama umekufa, na pia mkewe, sara, alikuwa tasa.
and being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of sara's womb:

"kwa malaika wa kanisa la sarde andika hivi: "huu ndio ujumbe kutoka kwake yeye aliye na roho saba za mungu na nyota saba. nayajua mambo yako yote; najua unajulikana kuwa na uhai kumbe umekufa!
and unto the angel of the church in sardis write; these things saith he that hath the seven spirits of god, and the seven stars; i know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.