Strong's #3498: nekros (pronounced nek-ros')
from an apparently primary nekus (a corpse); dead (literally or figuratively; also as noun):--dead.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
́
nekros
1) properly
1a) one that has breathed his last, lifeless
1b) deceased, departed, one whose soul is in heaven or hell
1c) destitute of life, without life, inanimate
2) metaphorically
2a) spiritually dead
2a1) destitute of a life that recognises and is devoted to God, because given up to trespasses and sins
2a2) inactive as respects doing right
2b) destitute of force or power, inactive, inoperative
Part of Speech: adjective
Relation: from an apparently primary nekus (a corpse)
Citing in TDNT: 4:892, 627
Usage:
This word is used 132 times:
Acts 17:3: "and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus,"
Acts 17:31: "men, in that he hath raised him from the dead."
Acts 17:32: "And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and"
Acts 20:9: "third loft, and was taken up dead."
Acts 23:6: "the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question."
Acts 24:15: "that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust."
Acts 24:21: "them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by"
Acts 26:8: "that God should raise the dead?"
Acts 26:23: "and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light"
Acts 28:6: "have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked"
Romans 1:4: "of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:"
Romans 4:17: "even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not"
Romans 4:24: "our Lord from the dead;"
Romans 6:4: "Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the"
Romans 6:9: "Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over"
Romans 6:11: "also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive"
Romans 6:13: "as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments"
Romans 7:4: "to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God."
Romans 7:8: "without the law sin was dead."
Romans 8:10: "the body is dead because of sin; but the"
Romans 8:11: "of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up"
Romans 8:11: "he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal"
Romans 10:7: "(that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)"
Romans 10:9: "hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
Romans 11:15: "of them be, but life from the dead?"
Romans 14:9: "that he might be Lord both of the dead and living."
1 Corinthians 15:12: "that he rose from the dead, how say some among"
1 Corinthians 15:12: "there is no resurrection of the dead?"
1 Corinthians 15:13: "there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:"
1 Corinthians 15:15: "whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not."
1 Corinthians 15:16: "For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:"
1 Corinthians 15:20: "is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept."
1 Corinthians 15:21: "man came also the resurrection of the dead."
1 Corinthians 15:29: "which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not"
1 Corinthians 15:29: "the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why"
1 Corinthians 15:29: "baptized for the dead?"
1 Corinthians 15:32: "advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and"
1 Corinthians 15:35: "man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body"
1 Corinthians 15:42: "is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised"
1 Corinthians 15:52: "the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we"
2 Corinthians 1:9: "God which raiseth the dead:"
Galatians 1:1: "who raised him from the dead;)"
Ephesians 1:20: "when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own"
Ephesians 2:1: "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins"
Ephesians 2:5: "Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, by (grace"
Ephesians 5:14: "arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."
Philippians 3:11: "the resurrection of the dead."
Colossians 1:18: "the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he"
Colossians 2:12: "who hath raised him from the dead."
Colossians 2:13: "And you, being dead in your sins and the"
