Strong's Lexicon
G3499 — νεκρόω
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G3499 |
|---|---|
| Word: | νεκρόω |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | from G3498 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 3 |
| Transliteration: | nekroo |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | nek-roh'-o |
| Meaning: | 1. to deaden 2. (figuratively) to subdue |
| KJV Renderings: | be dead, mortify |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
νεκρόω, νεκρῷ: 1 aorist imperative Νεκρώσατε; perfect passive participle νενεκρωμενος; to make dead (Vulg. and Latin Fathersmortifico), to put to death, slay: τινα, properly, Authol. app. 313, 5; passive νενεκρωμενος, hyperbolically, worn out, of an impotent old man, Heb 11:12; also σῶμα νενεκρωμενος, Rom 4:19; equivalent to to deprive of power, destroy the strength of: τά μέλη, i. e. the evil desire lurking in the members (of the body), Col 3:5. (τά δόγματα, Antoninus 7, 2; τήν ἕξιν, Plutarch, de primo frig. 21; (ἄνθρωπος, of obduracy, Epictetus diss. 1, 5, 7).)
Other Resources
Englishman's Greek Concordance
νεκρόω (be dead)
Romans 4:19
- KJV: And being not weak in faith he considered not his own body now dead about an hundred years old neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb
- GK: και μη ασθενήσας τη πίστει ου κατενόησε το εαυτού σώμα ήδη νενεκρωμένον εκατονταέτης που υπάρχων και την νέκρωσιν της μήτρας Σάρρας
Colossians 3:5
- KJV: Mortify therefore your members which upon the earth fornication uncleanness inordinate affection evil concupiscence and covetousness which is idolatry
- GK: νεκρώσατε ουν τα μέλη υμών τα επί της γης πορνείαν ακαθαρσίαν πάθος επιθυμίαν κακήν και την πλεονεξίαν ήτις εστίν ειδωλολατρεία
Hebrews 11:12
- KJV: Therefore sprang there even of one and him as good as dead as the stars of the sky in multitude and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable
- GK: διό και αφ΄ ενός εγεννήθησαν και ταύτα νενεκρωμένου καθώς τα άστρα του ουρανού τω πλήθει και ως η άμμος η παρά το χείλος της θαλάσσης η αναρίθμητος