θνήσκω
thnḗskō · G2348 · Greek · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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to die, death
The process of dying
ExamplesMatthew 2:20 “Get up, take the Child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel; for those who sought the Child’s life are dead.”
Mark 15:44 Now Pilate wondered if He was dead by this time, and summoning the centurion, he questioned him as to whether He was already dead.
Luke 7:12 Now as He approached the gate of the city, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a sizeable crowd from the city was with her.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
9 occurrences in 6 groups
- Not stated (participle) 3
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 2
- ζητέωto seek, to look for 1
- θυγάτηρdaughter 1
- σπαταλάωto live indulgently 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
With adverbsAdverbs
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἤδηalready 2
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- φάσκωto declare 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐκκομίζωto carry out for burial 1
- ἐξέρχομαιto go out, to depart 1
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- εἴδωto know 1
- θαυμάζωto marvel, to wonder 1
- λέγωto say 1
- νομίζωto suppose, to think 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- περίconcerning, about, for 1
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- מוּת mûwth · H4191 · to die, to pass away, to cause to die
- Hebrew מוּת and Greek θνήσκω denote the same core concept of death (literal or figurative), with complete alignment across occurrence contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To die, death23.99
- In Matthew 2:20, an angel tells Joseph, “those who sought the Child's life are dead,” using this verb for the ordinary event of dying.
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root θνήσκω
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : perfect τέθνηκα, infinitive τεθνάναι and L T Tr WH τεθνηκέναι (in Acts 14:19),…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
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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