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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)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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 48 times in 46 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:3 - And Abraam stood up from before his dead; and Abraam spoke to the sons of Chet, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4 - I am a sojourner and a stranger among you, give me therefore possession of a burying-place among you, and I will bury my dead away from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:6 - but hear us; thou art in the midst of us a king from God; bury thy dead in our choice sepulchres, for not one of us will by any means withhold his sepulchre from thee, so that thou shouldest not bury thy dead there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:8 - And Abraam spoke to them, saying, If ye have it in your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hearken to me, and speak for me to Ephron the son of Saar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:11 - [fn]Attend to me, my lord, and hear me, I give to thee the field and the cave which is in it; I have given it thee before all my countrymen; bury thy dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:13 - And he said in the ears of Ephron before the people of the land, Since thou art on my side, hear me; take the price of the field from me, and I will bury my dead there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:15 - Nay, my lord, I have heard indeed, the land is worth four hundred silver didrachms, but what can this be between me and thee? nay, do thou bury thy dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:5 - And ye shall not shave your head for the dead with a baldness on the top; and they shall not shave their beard, neither shall they make gashes on their flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:16 - And every one who shall touch a man slain by violence, or a corpse, or human bone, or sepulchre, shall be unclean seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:1 - Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:11 - a sorcerer employing incantation, one who has in him a divining spirit, an observer of signs, questioning the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:26 - And your dead men shall be food to the birds of the sky, and to the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to scare them away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:22 - And, behold, Barac was pursuing Sisara: and Jael went out to meet him, and she said to him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest: and he went in to her; and, behold, Sisara was fallen dead, and the pin was in his temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:8 - And it came to pass on the morrow that the Philistines come to strip the dead, and they find Saul and his three sons fallen on the mountains of Gelbue.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:6 - (LXX 19:7) forasmuch as thou lovest them that hate thee, and hatest them that love thee; and thou hast this day declared, that thy princes and thy servants are nothing in thy sight: for I know this day, that if Abessalom were alive, and all of us dead to-day, then it would have been right in thy sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:35 - And it came to pass at night that the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they rose early in the morning, and, behold, these were all dead corpses.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30 - And his servants carried him dead from Mageddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre: and the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and anointed him, and made him king in the room of his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:24 - And Juda came to the watch-tower of the wilderness, and looked, and saw the multitude, and, behold, they were all fallen dead upon the earth, not one escaped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:12 - (LXX 30:13) I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:20 - (LXX 37:21) They that reward evil for good slandered me; because I followed righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:4 - (LXX 87:5) I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:10 - (LXX 87:11) Wilt thou work wonders for the dead? or shall [fn]physicians raise them up, that they shall praise thee?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:28 - (LXX 105:28) They were joined also to Beelphegor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. And they provoked him with their devices;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:17 - (LXX 113:25) The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord, nor any that go down to Hades.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:3 - (LXX 142:3) For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has brought my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in a dark place, as those that have been long dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:3 - There is this evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yea, the heart of the sons of men is filled with evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after that they go to the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:4 - For who is he that has fellowship with all the living? there is hope of him: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:5 - For the living will know that they shall die: but the dead know nothing, and there is no longer any reward to them; for their memory is lost.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:13 - Therefore my people have been taken captive, because they know not the Lord: and there has been a multitude of dead bodies, because of hunger and of thirst for water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:19 - And if they should say to you, Seek [fn]those who have in them a divining spirit, and them that speak out of the earth, them that speak vain words, who speak out of their belly: shall not a nation diligently seek to their God? why do they seek to the dead concerning the living?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:19 - But thou shalt be cast forth on the mountains, as a loathed carcase, with many dead who have been pierced with swords, going down to the grave.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:2 - The city is filled with shouting men: thy slain are not slain with swords, nor are thy dead those who have died in battle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:14 - But the dead shall not see life, neither shall [fn]physicians by any means raise them up: therefore thou hast brought wrath upon them, and slain them, and hast taken away every male of them. Bring more evils upon them, O Lord;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:19 - The dead shall rise, and they that are in the tombs shall be raised, and they that are in the earth shall rejoice: for [fn]the dew from thee is healing to them: but the land of the ungodly shall perish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:3 - And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their ill savour shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:36

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:36 - And the angel of the Lord went forth, and slew out of the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they arose in the morning and found all these bodies dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:33 - And the dead bodies of this people shall be for food to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to drive them away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:22 - (LXX 9:21) And the carcases of the men shall be for an example on the face of the field of your land, like grass after the mower, and there shall be none to gather them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:7 - And I will destroy the counsel of Juda and the counsel of Jerusalem in this place; and I will cast them down with the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the sky and to the wild beasts of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5 - (LXX 40:5) to fight against the Chaldeans, and to fill it with the corpses of men, whom I smote in mine anger and my wrath, and turned away my face from them, for all their wickedness:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:6 - He has set me in dark places, as them that have long been dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:7 - And he said to them, Defile the house, and go out and fill the ways with dead bodies, and smite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:6 - Ye have multiplied your dead in this city, and ye have filled your ways with slain men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:7 - Therefore thus saith the Lord; Your dead whom ye have smitten in the midst of it, these are the flesh, and thiscity is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:18 - Son of man, lament over the strength of Egypt, for the nations shall bring down her daughters dead to the depth of the earth, to them that go down to the pit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:9 - And he said to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord; Come from the four winds, and breathe upon these dead men, and let them live.
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