νεκρός, -α, -ον, [in LXX chiefly for מֵת ;] dead, I. as adj., 1. prop.: Act.5:10 20:9, Jas.2:26, Rev.1:18, al.; ὡσεὶ ν., Mat.28:4, Mrk.9:26, Rev.1:17; of that which is subject to death, Rom.8:10. 2. Metaphorical, (a) of persons: Luk.15:24, 32; of those immersed in worldly cares, Mat.8:22, Luk.9:60; of spiritual death, Jhn.5:25, Rom.6:13, Eph.5:14, Rev.3:1; τ. παραπτώμασιν, Eph.2:1, 5 Col.2:13; of the opposite condition, ν. τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, Rom.6:11; (b) of things regarded as inoperative, devoid of power: ἁμαρτία, Rom.7:8; πίστις, Jas.2:17, 26; ἔργα, Heb.6:1 9:14. II. As subst., νεκρός, ὁ (Hom., al.), chiefly in pl. (οἱ) ν., the dead: Mat.11:5, Mrk.12:26, Luk.20:37, 1Co.15:15, al.; ἀνάστασις (τ.) νεκρῶν, Mat.22:31, Act.17:32, al.; ν. . . . ζῶντες, Mat.22:32, Mrk.12:27, Act.10:42, al.; ἀπὸ νεκρῶν, Luk.16:30; ἐκ ν., Mrk.6:14, Luk.24:46, Jhn.12:1, Act.13:34, Rom.10:7, al.; πρωτότοκος ἐκ τῶν ν., Col.1:18; ζωὴ ἐκ ν., Rom.11:15; constr. praegn., ἐκ ν. ζῶντες, Rom.6:13. (AS)
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G3498 — νεκρός
nekros · dead · Greek
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Matthew 8:22 · νεκροὺς · νεκρούς.¶But Jesus told him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”Matthew 10:8 · νεκροὺςHeal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.Matthew 11:5 · νεκροὶThe blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.Matthew 14:2 · νεκρῶν,and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”Matthew 17:9 · νεκρῶνAs they were coming down the mountain, Jesus commanded them, “Do not tell anyone about this vision until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”Matthew 22:31 · νεκρῶνBut concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you:Matthew 22:32 · νεκρῶν‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”Matthew 23:27 · νεκρῶνWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.Matthew 27:64 · νεκρῶν.So give the order that the tomb be secured until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples may come and steal Him away and tell the people He has risen from the dead. And this last deception would be worse than the first.”Matthew 28:4 · νεκροί.¶The guards trembled in fear of him and became like dead men.Matthew 28:7 · νεκρῶν,Then go quickly and tell His disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see Him.’ See, I have told you.”Mark 6:14 · νεκρῶν,Now King Herod heard about this, for Jesus’ name had become well known, and people were saying, “John the Baptist has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”Mark 9:9 · νεκρῶνAs they were coming down the mountain, Jesus admonished them not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.Mark 9:10 · νεκρῶνSo they kept this matter to themselves, discussing what it meant to rise from the dead.Mark 9:26 · νεκρὸςAfter shrieking and convulsing him violently, the spirit came out. The boy became like a corpse, so that many said, “He is dead.”Mark 12:25 · νεκρῶνWhen the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven.Mark 12:26 · νεκρῶνBut concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?Mark 12:27 · νεκρῶνHe is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”Luke 7:15 · νεκρὸςAnd the dead man sat up and began to speak! Then Jesus gave him back to his mother.Luke 7:22 · νεκροὶSo He replied, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.Luke 9:7 · νεκρῶν,When Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, he was perplexed. For some were saying that John had risen from the dead,Luke 9:60 · νεκροὺς · νεκρούς.But Jesus told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead. You, however, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”Luke 15:24 · νεκρὸςFor this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.Luke 15:32 · νεκρὸςBut it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”Luke 16:30 · νεκρῶν‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone is sent to them from the dead, they will repent.’Luke 16:31 · νεκρῶνThen Abraham said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”Luke 20:35 · νεκρῶνBut those who are considered worthy to share in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage.Luke 20:37 · νεκροί,Even Moses demonstrates that the dead are raised, in the passage about the burning bush. For he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’Luke 20:38 · νεκρῶνHe is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all are alive.”Luke 24:5 · νεκρῶν;As the women bowed their faces to the ground in terror, the two men asked them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?Luke 24:46 · νεκρῶνAnd He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,John 2:22 · νεκρῶν,After He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. Then they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.John 5:21 · νεκροὺςFor just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.John 5:25 · νεκροὶTruly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.John 12:1 · νεκρῶνSix days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, the hometown of Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.John 12:9 · νεκρῶν.Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews learned that Jesus was there. And they came not only because of Him, but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.John 12:17 · νεκρῶν.Meanwhile, many people who had been with Jesus when He called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify.John 20:9 · νεκρῶνFor they still did not understand from the Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.John 21:14 · νεκρῶν.¶This was now the third time that Jesus appeared to the disciples after He was raised from the dead.Acts 3:15 · νεκρῶν,You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of this fact.Acts 4:2 · νεκρῶν·greatly disturbed that they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.Acts 4:10 · νεκρῶν,then let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.Acts 5:10 · νεκράν,At that instant she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband.Acts 10:41 · νεκρῶν·not by all the people, but by the witnesses God had chosen beforehand, by us who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.Acts 10:42 · νεκρῶν.And He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that He is the One appointed by God to judge the living and the dead.Acts 13:30 · νεκρῶν,But God raised Him from the dead,Acts 13:34 · νεκρῶνIn fact, God raised Him from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’Acts 17:3 · νεκρῶνexplaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ,” he declared.Acts 17:31 · νεκρῶν.¶For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”Acts 17:32 · νεκρῶνWhen they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock him, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this topic.”Acts 20:9 · νεκρός.And a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.Acts 23:6 · νεκρῶνThen Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”Acts 24:21 · νεκρῶνunless it was this one thing I called out as I stood in their presence: ‘It is concerning the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.’”Acts 26:8 · νεκροὺςWhy would any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?Acts 26:23 · νεκρῶνthat the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”Acts 28:6 · νεκρόν·The islanders were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.Romans 1:4 · νεκρῶν,and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.Romans 4:17 · νεκροὺςAs it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.Romans 4:24 · νεκρῶν,but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.Romans 6:4 · νεκρῶνWe were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.Romans 6:9 · νεκρῶνFor we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has dominion over Him.Romans 6:11 · νεκροὺςSo you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.Romans 6:13 · νεκρῶνDo not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.Romans 7:4 · νεκρῶνTherefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.Romans 7:8 · νεκρά·But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.Romans 8:10 · νεκρὸνBut if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.Romans 8:11 · νεκρῶν · νεκρῶνAnd if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.Romans 10:7 · νεκρῶνor, ‘Who will descend into the Abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”Romans 10:9 · νεκρῶν,that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.Romans 11:15 · νεκρῶν;For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?Romans 14:9 · νεκρῶνFor this reason Christ died and returned to life, that He might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.1 Corinthians 15:12 · νεκρῶν · νεκρῶνBut if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?1 Corinthians 15:13 · νεκρῶνIf there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.1 Corinthians 15:15 · νεκροὶIn that case, we are also exposed as false witnesses about God. For we have testified about God that He raised Christ from the dead, but He did not raise Him if in fact the dead are not raised.1 Corinthians 15:16 · νεκροὶFor if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.1 Corinthians 15:20 · νεκρῶν,But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.1 Corinthians 15:21 · νεκρῶν.For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.1 Corinthians 15:29 · νεκρῶν; · νεκροὶIf these things are not so, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?1 Corinthians 15:32 · νεκροὶIf I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”1 Corinthians 15:35 · νεκροί;But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”1 Corinthians 15:42 · νεκρῶν.So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable.1 Corinthians 15:52 · νεκροὶin an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.2 Corinthians 1:9 · νεκρούς·Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.Galatians 1:1 · νεκρῶνPaul, an apostle—sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead—Ephesians 1:20 · νεκρῶνwhich He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,Ephesians 2:1 · νεκροὺςAnd you were dead in your trespasses and sins,Ephesians 2:5 · νεκροὺςmade us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!Ephesians 5:14 · νεκρῶν,So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”Philippians 3:11 · νεκρῶν.and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.Colossians 1:18 · νεκρῶν,And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.Colossians 2:12 · νεκρῶν.¶And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.Colossians 2:13 · νεκροὺςWhen you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,1 Thessalonians 1:10 · νεκρῶν,and to await His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.1 Thessalonians 4:16 · νεκροὶFor the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.2 Timothy 2:8 · νεκρῶνRemember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David, as proclaimed by my gospel,2 Timothy 4:1 · νεκρούς,I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom:Hebrews 6:1 · νεκρῶνTherefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith in God,Hebrews 6:2 · νεκρῶν,instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.Hebrews 9:14 · νεκρῶνhow much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!Hebrews 9:17 · νεκροῖςbecause a will does not take effect until the one who made it has died; it cannot be executed while he is still alive.Hebrews 11:19 · νεκρῶνAbraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death.Hebrews 11:35 · νεκροὺςWomen received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.Hebrews 13:20 · νεκρῶνNow may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,James 2:17 · νεκράSo too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead.James 2:26 · νεκρόν · νεκράAs the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.1 Peter 1:3 · νεκρῶν,Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,1 Peter 1:21 · νεκρῶνThrough Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.1 Peter 4:5 · νεκρούς.But they will have to give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.1 Peter 4:6 · νεκροῖςThat is why the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.Revelation 1:5 · νεκρῶνand from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,Revelation 1:17 · νεκρός,When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,Revelation 1:18 · νεκρὸςthe Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.Revelation 2:8 · νεκρὸςTo the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of the First and the Last, who died and returned to life.Revelation 3:1 · νεκρὸς“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of the One who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation for being alive, yet you are dead.Revelation 11:18 · νεκρῶνThe nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your name, both small and great—and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”Revelation 14:13 · νεκροὶAnd I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them.”Revelation 16:3 · νεκροῦ,And the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it turned to blood like that of the dead, and every living thing in the sea died.Revelation 20:5 · νεκρῶνThe rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were complete. This is the first resurrection.Revelation 20:12 · νεκρούς, · νεκροὶAnd I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And books were opened, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.Revelation 20:13 · νεκροὺς · νεκροὺςThe sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.