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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 - Then Abraham rose from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites.[fn] He said,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4 - “I am a foreigner and stranger among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:6 - “Sir, listen to us. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb for burying your dead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:8 - He said to them, “If you are willing to let me bury my dead, then listen to me and intercede with Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:11 - “No, my lord,” he said. “Listen to me; I give[fn] you the field, and I give[fn] you the cave that is in it. I give[fn] it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:13 - and he said to Ephron in their hearing, “Listen to me, if you will. I will pay the price of the field. Accept it from me so I can bury my dead there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:15 - “Listen to me, my lord; the land is worth four hundred shekels[fn] of silver, but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:5 - “ ‘Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or cut their bodies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:16 - “Anyone out in the open who touches someone who has been killed with a sword or someone who has died a natural death, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:1 - You are the children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:11 - or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:26 - Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:22 - Just then Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. “Come,” she said, “I will show you the man you’re looking for.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his temple—dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:8 - The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:6 - You love those who hate you and hate those who love you. You have made it clear today that the commanders and their men mean nothing to you. I see that you would be pleased if Absalom were alive today and all of us were dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:35 - That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30 - Josiah’s servants brought his body in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:24 - When the men of Judah came to the place that overlooks the desert and looked toward the vast army, they saw only dead bodies lying on the ground; no one had escaped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:12 - I am forgotten as though I were dead; I have become like broken pottery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:20 - Those who repay my good with evil lodge accusations against me, though I seek only to do what is good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:4 - I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like one without strength.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:10 - Do you show your wonders to the dead? Do their spirits rise up and praise you?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:28 - They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:17 - It is not the dead who praise the LORD, those who go down to the place of silence;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:3 - The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in the darkness like those long dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:3 - This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:4 - Anyone who is among the living has hope[fn]—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:5 - For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:13 - Therefore my people will go into exile for lack of understanding; those of high rank will die of hunger and the common people will be parched with thirst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:19 - When someone tells you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:19 - But you are cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch; you are covered with the slain, with those pierced by the sword, those who descend to the stones of the pit. Like a corpse trampled underfoot,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:2 - you town so full of commotion, you city of tumult and revelry? Your slain were not killed by the sword, nor did they die in battle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:14 - They are now dead, they live no more; their spirits do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin; you wiped out all memory of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:19 - But your dead will live, LORD; their bodies will rise— let those who dwell in the dust wake up and shout for joy— your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:3 - Their slain will be thrown out, their dead bodies will stink; the mountains will be soaked with their blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:36

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:36 - Then the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:33 - Then the carcasses of this people will become food for the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:22 - Say, “This is what the LORD declares: “ ‘Dead bodies will lie like dung on the open field, like cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather them.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:7 - “ ‘In this place I will ruin[fn] the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds and the wild animals.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5 - in the fight with the Babylonians[fn]: ‘They will be filled with the dead bodies of the people I will slay in my anger and wrath. I will hide my face from this city because of all its wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:6 - He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:7 - Then he said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:6 - You have killed many people in this city and filled its streets with the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:7 - “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: The bodies you have thrown there are the meat and this city is the pot, but I will drive you out of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:18 - “Son of man, wail for the hordes of Egypt and consign to the earth below both her and the daughters of mighty nations, along with those who go down to the pit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:9 - Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’ ”
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