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Lexicon :: Strong's G3498 - nekros

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νεκρός
Transliteration
nekros (Key)
Pronunciation
nek-ros'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
From an apparently primary nekus (a corpse)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:892,627

Trench's Synonyms: cvii. Additional Synonyms

Strong’s Definitions

νεκρός nekrós, nek-ros'; from an apparently primary νέκυς nékys (a corpse); dead (literally or figuratively; also as noun):—dead.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 132x

The KJV translates Strong's G3498 in the following manner: dead (132x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 132x
The KJV translates Strong's G3498 in the following manner: dead (132x).

  1. properly

    1. one that has breathed his last, lifeless

    2. deceased, departed, one whose soul is in heaven or hell

    3. destitute of life, without life, inanimate

  2. metaph.

    1. spiritually dead

      1. destitute of a life that recognises and is devoted to God, because given up to trespasses and sins

      2. inactive as respects doing right

    2. destitute of force or power, inactive, inoperative

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
νεκρός nekrós, nek-ros'; from an apparently primary νέκυς nékys (a corpse); dead (literally or figuratively; also as noun):—dead.
STRONGS G3498:
νεκρός, νεκρά, νεκρόν (akin to the Latinneco, nex (from a root signifying 'to disappear' etc.; cf. Curtius, § 93; Fick i., p. 123; Vanicek, p. 422f)), the Sept. chiefly for מֵת; dead, i. e.:
1. properly,
a. one that has breathed his last, lifeless: Matthew 28:4; Mark 9:26; Luke 7:15; Acts 5:10; Acts 20:9; Acts 28:6; Hebrews 11:35; Revelation 1:17; ἐπί νεκροῖς, if men are dead (where death has occurred (see ἐπί, Buttmann, 2 a. ε., p. 233a at the end)), Hebrews 9:17; ἐγείρειν νεκρούς, Matthew 10:8; Matthew 11:5; Luke 7:22; hyperbolically and proleptically equivalent to as if already dead, sure to die, destined inevitably to die: τό σῶμα, Romans 8:10 (τό σῶμα and τό σωμάτιον φύσει νεκρόν, Epictetus diss. 3, 10, 15 and 3, 22, 41; in which sense Luther called the human body, although alive,einen alten Madensack (cf. Shakespeare's "thou worms-meat!")); said of the body of a dead man (so in Homer often; for נְבֵלָה a corpse Deuteronomy 28:26; Isaiah 26:19; Jeremiah 7:33; Jeremiah 9:22; Jeremiah 19:7): μετά τῶν νεκρῶν, among the dead, i. e. the buried, Luke 24:5; θάψαι τούς νεκρούς, Matthew 8:22; Luke 9:60; ὀστέα νεκρῶν, Matthew 23:27; of the corpse of a murdered man, αἷμα ὡς νεκροῦ, Revelation 16:3 (for הָרוּג, Ezekiel 37:9; for חָלָל,thrust through, slain, Ezekiel 9:7; Ezekiel 11:6).
b. deceased, departed, one whose soul is in Hades: Revelation 1:18; Revelation 2:8; νεκρός ἦν, was like one dead, as good as dead, Luke 15:24, 32; plural, 1 Corinthians 15:29; Revelation 14:13; ἐν Χριστῷ, dead Christians (see ἐν, I. 6 b., p. 211b), 1 Thessalonians 4:16; very often οἱ νεκροί and νεκροί (without the article; see Winers Grammar, p. 123 (117) and cf. Buttmann, 89 (78) note) are used of the assembly of the dead (see ἀνάστασις, 2 and ἐγείρω, 2): 1 Peter 4:6; Revelation 20:5, 12f; τίς ἀπό τῶν νεκρῶν, one (returning) from the dead, the world of spirits, Luke 16:30; ἐκ νεκρῶν, from the dead, occurs times too many to count (see ἀνάστασις, ἀνίστημι, ἐγεριω): ἀνάγειν τινα ἐκ νεκρῶν, Romans 10:7; Hebrews 13:20; ζωή ἐκ νεκρῶν, life springing forth from death, i. e. the return of the dead to life (see ἐκ, I. 5), Romans 11:15; πρωτότοκος ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν who was the first that returned to life from among the dead, Colossians 1:18; also πρωτότοκος τῶν νεκρῶν Revelation 1:5; ζοωποίειν τούς νεκρούς Romans 4:17; ἐγείρειν τινα ἀπό τῶν νεκρῶν, to rouse one to quit (the assembly of) the dead, Matthew 14:2; Matthew 27:64; Matthew 28:7; κρίνειν ζῶντας καί νεκρούς, 2 Timothy 4:1; 1 Peter 4:5; κριτής ζώντων καί νεκρῶν, Acts 10:42; νεκρῶν καί ζώντων κυριεύειν, Romans 14:9.
c. destitute of life, without life, inanimate (equivalent to ἄψυχος): τό σῶμα χωρίς πνεύματος νεκρόν ἐστιν, James 2:26; οὐκ ἐστιν (ὁ) Θεός νεκρῶν ἀλλά ζώντων, God is the guardian God not of the dead but of the living, Matthew 22:32; Mark 12:27; Luke 20:38.
2. tropically:
a. (spiritually dead, i. e.) "destitute of a life that recognizes and is devoted to God, because given up to trespasses and sins; inactive as respects doing right": John 5:25; Romans 6:13; Ephesians 5:14; Revelation 3:1; with τοῖς παραπτώμασιν (the dative of cause (cf. Winer's Grammar, 412 (384f))) added, Ephesians 2:1, 5; ἐν (but T Tr WH omit ἐν) τοῖς παραπτοις Colossians 2:13; in the pointed saying ἄφες τούς νεκρούς θάψαι τούς ἑαυτῶν νεκρούς, leave those who are indifferent to the salvation offered them in the gospel, to bury thee bodies of their own dead, Matthew 8:22; Luke 9:60.
b. universally, destitute of force or power, inactive, inoperative: τῇ ἁμαρτία, unaffected by the desire to sin (cf. Winers Grammar, 210 (199); Buttmann, § 133, 12), Romans 6:11; of things: ἁμαρτία, Romans 7:8; πίστις, James 2:17, 20 (R G), 26; ἔργα, powerless and fruitless (see ἔργον, 3, p. 248b bottom), Hebrews 6:1; Hebrews 9:14. (Cf. θνητός, at the end)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
28:26
Isaiah
26:19
Jeremiah
7:33; 9:22; 19:7
Ezekiel
9:7; 11:6; 37:9
Matthew
8:22; 8:22; 10:8; 11:5; 14:2; 22:32; 23:27; 27:64; 28:4; 28:7
Mark
9:26; 12:27
Luke
7:15; 7:22; 9:60; 9:60; 15:24; 15:32; 16:30; 20:38; 24:5
John
5:25
Acts
5:10; 10:42; 20:9; 28:6
Romans
4:17; 6:11; 6:13; 7:8; 8:10; 10:7; 11:15; 14:9
1 Corinthians
15:29
Ephesians
2:1; 2:5; 5:14
Colossians
1:18; 2:13
1 Thessalonians
4:16
2 Timothy
4:1
Hebrews
6:1; 9:14; 9:17; 11:35; 13:20
James
2:17; 2:20; 2:26
1 Peter
4:5; 4:6
Revelation
1:5; 1:17; 1:18; 2:8; 3:1; 14:13; 16:3; 20:5; 20:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3498 matches the Greek νεκρός (nekros),
which occurs 132 times in 123 verses in the TR Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Mat 8:22–Act 17:31)

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:22 - But Jesus said to him, Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:8 - Heal the infirm, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons: ye have received gratuitously, give gratuitously.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:5 - Blind men see and lame walk; lepers are cleansed, and deaf hear; and dead are raised, and poor have glad tidings preached to them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:2 - and said to his servants, This is John the baptist: *he* is risen from the dead, and because of this these works of power display their force in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 17:9 - And as they descended from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no one, until the Son of man be risen up from among the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:31 - But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:32 - *I* am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not God of the dead, but of the living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:27 - Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outwardly, but within are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:64 - Command therefore that the sepulchre be secured until the third day, lest his disciples should come and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead; and the last error shall be worse than the first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:4 - And for fear of him the guards trembled and became as dead men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:7 - And go quickly and say to his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and behold, he goes before you into Galilee, there shall ye see him. Behold, I have told you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:14 - And Herod the king heard of him (for his name had become public), and said, John the baptist is risen from among the dead, and on this account works of power are wrought by him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:16 - But Herod when he heard it said, John whom *I* beheaded, he it is; *he* is risen from among the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:9 - And as they descended from the mountain, he charged them that they should relate to no one what they had seen, unless when the Son of man should be risen from among the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:10 - And they kept that saying, questioning among themselves, what rising from among the dead was.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:26 - And having cried out and torn him much, he came out; and he became as if dead, so that the most said, He is dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:25 - For when they rise from among the dead they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels who are in the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:26 - But concerning the dead that they rise, have ye not read in the book of Moses, in the section of the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, *I* am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:27 - He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. *Ye* therefore greatly err.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:15 - And the dead sat up and began to speak; and he gave him to his mother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:22 - And Jesus answering said to them, Go, bring back word to John of what ye have seen and heard: that blind see, lame walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf hear, dead are raised, poor are evangelized;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:7 - And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things which were done by him, and was in perplexity, because it was said by some that John was risen from among the dead,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:60 - But Jesus said to him, Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, but do *thou* go and announce the kingdom of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:24 - for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found. And they began to make merry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:32 - But it was right to make merry and rejoice, because this thy brother was dead and has come to life again, and was lost and has been found.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:30 - But he said, Nay, father Abraham, but if one from the dead should go to them, they will repent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:31 - And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, not even if one rise from among the dead will they be persuaded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:35 - but they who are counted worthy to have part in that world, and the resurrection from among the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:37 - But that the dead rise, even Moses shewed in the section of the bush, when he called the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:38 - but he is not God of the dead but of the living; for all live for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:5 - And as they were filled with fear and bowed their faces to the ground, they said to them, Why seek ye the living one among the dead?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:46 - and said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved the Christ to suffer, and to rise from among the dead the third day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:22 - When therefore he was raised from among the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and believed the scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:21 - For even as the Father raises the dead and quickens them, thus the Son also quickens whom he will:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:25 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, that an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that have heard shall live.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:1 - Jesus therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was the dead man Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from among the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:9 - A great crowd therefore of the Jews knew that he was there; and they came, not because of Jesus only, but also that they might see Lazarus whom he raised from among the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:17 - The crowd therefore that was with him bore witness because he had called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from among the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 20:9 - for they had not yet known the scripture, that he must rise from among the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 21:14 - This is already the third time that Jesus had been manifested to the disciples, being risen from among the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:15 - but the originator of life ye slew, whom God raised from among the dead, whereof *we* are witnesses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:2 - being distressed on account of their teaching the people and preaching by Jesus the resurrection from among the dead;

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:10 - be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean, whom *ye* have crucified, whom God has raised from among the dead, by *him* this man stands here before you sound in body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:10 - And she fell down immediately at his feet and expired. And when the young men came in they found her dead; and, having carried her out, they buried her by her husband.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:41 - not of all the people, but of witnesses who were chosen before of God, *us* who have eaten and drunk with him after he arose from among the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:42 - And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that *he* it is who was determinately appointed of God to be judge of living and dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:30 - but God raised him from among the dead,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:34 - But that he raised him from among the dead, no more to return to corruption, he spoke thus: I will give to you the faithful mercies of David.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:3 - opening and laying down that the Christ must have suffered and risen up from among the dead, and that this is the Christ, Jesus whom *I* announce to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:31 - because he has set a day in which he is going to judge the habitable earth in righteousness by the man whom he has appointed, giving the proof of it to all in having raised him from among the dead.

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