θανατήφορος
thanatḗphoros · G2287 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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deadly
That which causes or produces death
ExamplesJames 3:8 But no one among mankind can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Contrasting words 1 word
- ζωοποιέω zōopoiéō · G2227 · to give life to, to make live
- θανατήφορος describes something that brings or bears death (fatal, deadly), while ζωοποιέω describes making alive or giving life—a direct lexical opposite in the death-bearing vs. life-giving axis
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Deadly23.115
- In James 3:8, of the tongue it is written, “But no one among mankind can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison,” using this word for something capable of causing death.
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon θανατηφόρον (θάνατος and φέρω), death-bringing, deadly: Jas 3:8. (Num 18:22; Job 33:23;…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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