τελευτή
teleutḗ · G5054 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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death
(Figurative extension of meaning of τελευτή ‘end,’ not occurring in the NT) The end of one’s life, as a euphemistic expression for death
ExamplesMatthew 2:15 He stayed there until the death of Herod; this happened so that what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled: “OUT OF EGYPT I CALLED MY SON.”
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἩρώδηςHerod 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἕωςuntil, to, as far as 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- θάνατος thánatos · G2288 · to die, death, plague
- The standard Greek noun for death; while θάνατος can denote both the event and the state of death, τελευτή more specifically emphasizes the moment or event of dying/decease. Both can refer to the cessation of life.
- ἔξοδος éxodos · G1841 · departure, the Exodus, the departure (of Israel from Egypt)
- Can euphemistically denote death as a departure from life (as in 2 Peter 1:15 and Luke 9:31); τελευτή focuses on the ending/decease itself while ἔξοδος emphasizes the departure aspect.
Contrasting words 2 words
- γένεσις génesis · G1078 · be born, birth, lineage
- Denotes birth or coming into being, the direct lexical opposite of τελευτή (decease/end of life); one marks life's beginning, the other its end.
- ζωή zōḗ · G2222 · life
- The state or condition of being alive, the fundamental opposite of death/decease; τελευτή marks the end of ζωή.
In the other Testament 1 word
- מָוֶת mâveth · H4194 · death, plague
- The standard Hebrew noun for death; τελευτή denotes the event of dying/decease, and מָוֶת is its direct Hebrew equivalent in expressing death as an event or state.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To die23.102
- Matthew records that Joseph and his family “stayed there until the death of Herod; this happened so that what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled” (Matthew 2:15).
Word family 26 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon τελευτῆς, ἡ (τελέω), end (see τέλος, 1 a. at the beginning); the end of life, decease,…
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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