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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:

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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:

1 Thessalonians 1:10: "whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from"
1 Thessalonians 4:16: "of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:"
2 Timothy 2:8: "of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:"
2 Timothy 4:1: "judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and"
Hebrews 6:1: "the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward"
Hebrews 6:2: "of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment."
Hebrews 9:14: "your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"
Hebrews 9:17: "For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all"
Hebrews 11:19: "to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him"
Hebrews 11:35: "Women received their dead raised to life again: and others"
Hebrews 13:20: "of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great"
James 2:17: "not works, is dead, being alone."
James 2:20: "without works is dead?"
James 2:26: "without the spirit is dead, so faith without works"
James 2:26: "without works is dead also."
1 Peter 1:3: "the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,"
1 Peter 1:21: "God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him"
1 Peter 4:5: "to judge the quick and the dead."
1 Peter 4:6: "this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according"
Revelation 1:5: "first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the"
Revelation 1:17: "his feet as dead. And he laid his right"
Revelation 1:18: "I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive"
Revelation 2:8: "last, which was dead, and is alive;"
Revelation 3:1: "thou livest, and art dead."
Revelation 11:18: "the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward"
Revelation 14:13: "Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth:"
Revelation 16:3: "it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul"
Revelation 20:5: "the rest of the dead lived not again until the"
Revelation 20:12: "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand"
Revelation 20:12: "the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in"
Revelation 20:13: "sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death"
Revelation 20:13: "hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged"









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