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Lexicon :: Strong's G3498 - nekros

Aa
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)
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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)
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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 128 times in 120 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Mat 8:22–Act 17:32)

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:22 - But Jesus said to him, Come after me; and let the dead take care of their dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:8 - Make well those who are ill, give life to the dead, make lepers clean, send evil spirits out of men; freely it has been given to you, freely give.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:5 - The blind see; those who were not able to, are walking; lepers are made clean; those who were without hearing, now have their ears open; the dead come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:2 - And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he has come back from the dead, and so these powers are working in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 17:9 - And when they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus gave them orders, saying, Let no man have word of what you have seen, till the Son of man has come again from the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:31

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:31 - But about the dead coming back to life, have you no knowledge of what was said to you by God in the Writings:

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:32

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:32 - I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:27 - A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:64

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:64 - Give orders, then, that the place where his body is may be made safe till the third day, for fear that his disciples come and take him away secretly and say to the people, He has come back from the dead: and the last error will be worse than the first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:4 - And for fear of him the watchmen were shaking, and became as dead men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:7 - And go quickly and give his disciples the news that he has come back from the dead, and is going before you into Galilee; there you will see him, as I have said to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:14 - And king Herod had news of him, because his name was on the lips of all; and he said, John the Baptist has come back from the dead, and for this reason these powers are working in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:9 - And while they were coming down from the mountain, he gave them orders not to give word to any man of the things they had seen, till the Son of man had come back from the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:10 - And they kept the saying, questioning among themselves what the coming back from the dead might be.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:26 - And after crying out and shaking him violently, it came out: and the child became like one dead; so that most of them said, He is dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:25 - When they come back from the dead, they do not get married, but are like the angels in heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:26 - But as to the dead coming back to life; have you not seen in the book of Moses, about the burning thorn-tree, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:27

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:27 - He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: you are greatly in error.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:15 - And the dead man got up, and words came from his lips. And he gave him to his mother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:22 - And answering them he said, Go back and give news to John of what you have seen, and the things which have come to your ears; the blind now see, those who had no power in their legs are walking, lepers are made clean, those who had no hearing now have their ears open, dead men come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:7 - Now Herod the king had news of all these things: and he was in doubt, because it was said by some people that John had come back from the dead;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:60

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:60 - But he said to him, Let the dead take care of their dead; it is for you to go and give news of the kingdom of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:24 - For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:32 - But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:30 - And he said, No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, their hearts would be changed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:31 - And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:35 - But those to whom is given the reward of the world to come, and to come back from the dead, have no wives, and are not married;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:37

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:37 - But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:38 - Now he is not the God of the dead but of the living: for all men are living to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:5 - And while their faces were bent down to the earth in fear, these said to them, Why are you looking for the living among the dead?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:46 - And he said to them, So it is in the Writings that the Christ would undergo death, and come back to life again on the third day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:22 - So when he had come back again from the dead, the memory of these words came back to the disciples, and they had faith in the holy Writings and in the word which Jesus had said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:21 - In the same way, as the Father gives life to the dead, even so the Son gives life to those to whom he is pleased to give it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:25 - Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:1 - Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had made to come back from the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:9 - Then a great number of the Jews had news that he was there: and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they might see Lazarus who had been dead and to whom he had given life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:17 - Now the people who were with him when his voice came to Lazarus in the place of the dead, and gave him life again, had been talking about it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 20:9 - For at that time they had no knowledge that the Writings said that he would have to come again from the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 21:14 - Now this was the third time that Jesus let himself be seen by the disciples after he had come back from the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:15 - And put to death the Lord of life; whom God gave back from the dead; of which fact we are witnesses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:2 - Being greatly troubled because they were teaching the people and preaching Jesus as an example of the coming back from the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:10 - Take note, all of you, and all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you put to death on the cross, whom God gave back from the dead, even through him is this man now before you completely well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:10 - And straight away she went down at his feet, and her life went from her: and the young men came in and saw her dead, and they took her out and put her in the earth with her husband.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:41

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:41 - Not by all the people, but by witnesses marked out before by God, even by us, who took food and drink with him after he came back from the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:42

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:42 - And he gave us orders to give news of this to the people, and to give public witness that this is he whom God has made judge of the living and the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:30

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:30 - But God gave him back from the dead:

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:34

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:34 - And about his coming back from the dead, never again to go to destruction, he has said these words, I will give you the holy and certain mercies of David.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:3 - Saying to them clearly and openly that Christ had to be put to death and come back to life again; and that this Jesus, whom, he said, I am preaching to you, is the Christ.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:31

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:31 - Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:32 - Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.

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