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Strong's #2288: thanatos (pronounced than'-at-os)

from 2348; (properly, an adjective used as a noun) death (literally or figuratively):--X deadly, (be...) death.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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thanatos

1) the death of the body

1a) that separation (whether natural or violent) of the soul and the body by which the life on earth is ended

1b) with the implied idea of future misery in hell

1b1) the power of death

1c) since the nether world, the abode of the dead, was conceived as being very dark, it is equivalent to the region of thickest darkness, i.e. figuratively, a region enveloped in the darkness of ignorance and sin

2) metaphorically, the loss of that life which alone is worthy of the name

2a) the misery of the soul arising from sin, which begins on earth but lasts and increases after the death of the body in hell

3) the miserable state of the wicked dead in hell

4) in the widest sense, death comprising all the miseries arising from sin, as well physical death as the loss of a life consecrated to God and blessed in him on earth, to be followed by wretchedness in hell

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from G2348




Usage:

This word is used 119 times:

Revelation 1:18: "have the keys of hell and of death."
Revelation 2:10: "be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown"
Revelation 2:11: "of the second death."
Revelation 2:23: "her children with death; and all the churches"
Revelation 6:8: "that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with"
Revelation 6:8: "hunger, and with death, and with the beasts"
Revelation 9:6: "days shall men seek death, and shall not find it;"
Revelation 9:6: "shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them."
Revelation 12:11: "their lives unto the death."
Revelation 13:3: "as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound"
Revelation 13:3: "death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all"
Revelation 13:12: "the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed."
Revelation 18:8: "come in one day, death, and mourning, and"
Revelation 20:6: "such the second death hath no power, but"
Revelation 20:13: "which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the"
Revelation 20:14: "And death and hell were cast into the lake"
Revelation 20:14: "is the second death."
Revelation 21:4: "there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying,"
Revelation 21:8: "brimstone: which is the second death."









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