they. Note the Figure of speech Heterosis (of Number), App-6, by which the plural is put for the singular.: i.e. Herod.
life. the soul. Greek. e psuche.
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Matthew 2:20
20 Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.