νέκρωσις
nékrōsis · G3500 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to die, death
The process of dying
Examples2 Corinthians 4:10 always carrying around in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
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barrenness
(A figurative extension of meaning of νέκρωσις ‘death,’) The state of not being able to bear children as the result of having passed through menopause
ExamplesRomans 4:19 Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἸησοῦςJesus 1
- μήτραwomb 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- περιφέρωto carry around 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Barrenness23.57
- In the same statement about Abraham's faith, Romans 4:19 continues, “...and the deadness of Sarah’s womb,” where “deadness” renders this noun describing Sarah's inability to bear children.
- To die, death23.99
- Describing the apostles' constant peril, 2 Corinthians 4:10 says “always carrying around in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body,” where “dying” renders this noun for the process or state of death.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon νεκρωσεως, ἡ (νεκρόω); 1. properly, a putting to death (Vulg.mortificatio in 2 Cor 4:10),…
1. properly, a putting to death (Vulg.mortificatio in 2 Cor 4:10), killing.
2. equivalent to τό νεκρουσθαι (the being put to death), with τοῦ Ἰησοῦ added, i. e. the (protracted) death (A. V. the dying) which Jesus underwent in God's service (on the genitive cf. Winer's Grammar, 189 (178) note), Paul so styles the marks of perpetual trials, misfortunes, hardships attended with peril of death, evident in his body (cf. Meyer), 2 Cor 4:10.
3. equivalent to τό νενεκρωμένον εἶναι, the dead state (A. V. deadness), utter sluggishness (of bodily members and organs, Galen): Rom 4:19.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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