Strong's Lexicon
G3500 — νέκρωσις
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G3500 |
|---|---|
| Word: | νέκρωσις |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Etymology: | from G3499 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 2 |
| Transliteration: | nekrosis |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | nek'-ro-sis |
| Meaning: | 1. decease 2. (figuratively) impotency |
| KJV Renderings: | deadness, dying |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
νέκρωσις, νεκρωσεως, ἡ (νεκρόω);
1. properly, a putting to death (Vulg.mortificatio in 2Co 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), 2Co 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.
Other Resources
Englishman's Greek Concordance
νέκρωσις (deadness)
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
2 Corinthians 4:10
- KJV: Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body
- GK: πάντοτε την νέκρωσιν του κυρίου Ιησού εν τω σώματι περιφέροντες ίνα και η ζωή του Ιησού εν τω σώματι ημών φανερωθή