dead

Greek Adjective

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)

dead

Greek Adjective

νεκρός, ὁ (of a woman, [Refs 4th c.BC+], corpse, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: as substantive, in early writers always of mankind, νεκροὺς συλήσετε τεθνηῶτας [Refs 8th c.BC+]: frequently of those killed in battle, τοὺς ν. ὑποσπόνδους ἀνείλοντο [Refs 5th c.BC+]; later, of a fish, ν. ἰχθύος [Refs 1st c.AD+] 2) dying person, μυχθισμὸς νεκρῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+] 3) metaphorically, ὁ υἱός μου ν. ἦν καὶ ἀνέζησε [NT] 4) in plural, the dead, as dwellers in the nether world, κλυτὰ ἔθνεα νεκρῶν [NT+8th c.BC+] II) as adjective νεκρός, ά, όν, dead, first in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ν. σώματα Mitteis [Refs 5th c.BC+] (but also τὰ τῶν ν. σώματα [Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative -ότερος[Refs 1st c.AD+] II.2) inanimate, inorganic, opposed to ἔμψυχος, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; οὐχὶ ν, ὥσπερ λίθον ἢ ξύλον, ἀλλὰ ζῶν [Refs]; ἡ ν. θάλασσα the [Refs 2nd c.AD+] II.3) metaphorically, ν. πλοῦτος [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

Greek

Adjective

dead (literally or figuratively; also as noun); dead; from an apparently primary (a corpse)