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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)
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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 - and Jesus said to him, 'Follow me, and suffer the dead to bury their own dead.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:8 - infirm ones be healing, lepers be cleansing, dead be raising, demons be casting out -- freely ye did receive, freely give.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:5 - blind receive sight, and lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and deaf hear, dead are raised, and poor have good news proclaimed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:2 - and said to his servants, 'This is John the Baptist, he did rise from the dead, and because of this the mighty energies are working in him.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 17:9 - And as they are coming down from the mount, Jesus charged them, saying, 'Say to no one the vision, till the Son of Man out of the dead may rise.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:31 - 'And concerning the rising again of the dead, did ye not read that which 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 a God of dead men, but of living.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:27 - 'Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye are like to whitewashed sepulchres, which outwardly indeed do appear beautiful, and within are full of bones of dead men, and of all uncleanness;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:64

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:64 - command, then, the sepulchre to be made secure till the third day, lest his disciples, having come by night, may steal him away, and may say to the people, He rose from the dead, and the last deceit shall be worse than the first.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:4 - and from the fear of him did the keepers shake, and they became as dead men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:7 - and having gone quickly, say ye to his disciples, that he rose from the dead; and lo, he doth go before you to Galilee, there ye shall see him; lo, I have told you.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:14 - And the king Herod heard, (for his name became public,) and he said -- 'John the Baptist out of the dead was raised, and because of this the mighty powers are working in him.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:16 - And Herod having heard, said -- 'He whom I did behead -- John -- this is he; he was raised out of the dead.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:9 - And as they are coming down from the mount, he charged them that they may declare to no one the things that they saw, except when the Son of Man may rise out of the dead;

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:10 - and the thing they kept to themselves, questioning together what the rising out of the dead is.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:26 - and having cried, and rent him much, it came forth, and he became as dead, so that many said that he was dead,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:25 - for when they may rise out of the dead, they neither marry nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers who are in the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:26 - 'And concerning the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the Book of Moses (at The Bush), how God spake 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 dead men, but a God of living men; ye then go greatly astray.'

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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, 'Having gone on, report to John what ye saw and heard, that blind men do see again, lame do walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf do hear, dead are raised, poor have good news proclaimed;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:7 - And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things being done by him, and was perplexed, because it was said by certain, that John hath been raised out of the dead;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:60 - and Jesus said to him, 'Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, and thou, having gone away, publish the reign of God.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:24 - because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:32 - but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:30 - and he said, No, father Abraham, but if any one from the dead may go unto them, they will reform.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:31 - And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:35 - but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the rising again that is out of the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:37 - 'And that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the Bush, since he doth call 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 - and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:5 - and on their having become afraid, and having inclined the face to the earth, they said to them, 'Why do ye seek the living with the dead?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:46 - and he said to them -- 'Thus it hath been written, and thus it was behoving the Christ to suffer, and to rise out of the dead the third day,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:22 - when, then, he was raised out of the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this to them, and they believed the Writing, and the word that Jesus said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:21 - 'For, as the Father doth raise the dead, and doth make alive, so also the Son doth make alive whom he willeth;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:25 - 'Verily, verily, I say to you -- There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:1 - Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus, who had died, whom he raised out of the dead;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:9 - A great multitude, therefore, of the Jews knew that he is there, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that Lazarus also they may see, whom he raised out of the dead;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:17 - The multitude, therefore, who are with him, were testifying that he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and did raise him out of the dead;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 20:9 - for not yet did they know the Writing, that it behoveth him out of the dead to rise again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 21:14 - this is now a third time Jesus was manifested to his disciples, having been raised from the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:15 - and the Prince of the life ye did kill, whom God did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses;

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:2 - being grieved because of their teaching the people, and preaching in Jesus the rising again out of the dead --

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:10 - be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye did crucify, whom God did raise out of the dead, in him hath this one stood by before you whole.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:10 - and she fell down presently at his feet, and expired, and the young men having come in, found her dead, and having carried forth, they buried her by her husband;

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:41 - not to all the people, but to witnesses, to those having been chosen before by God -- to us who did eat with him, and did drink with him, after his rising out of the dead;

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:42 - and he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify fully that it is he who hath been ordained by God judge of living and dead --

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:30 - and God did raise him out of the dead,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:34

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:34 - 'And that He did raise him up out of the dead, no more to return to corruption, he hath said thus -- I will give to you the faithful kindnesses of David;

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:3 - opening and alleging, 'That the Christ it behoved to suffer, and to rise again out of the dead, and that this is the Christ -- Jesus whom I proclaim to you.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:31 - because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'

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