ΝΕΚΡΩΣΑΤΕ, νεκρωσατε
NEKRŌSATE, nekrōsate
Sounds Like: nek-ROH-sah-teh
Translations: put to death, mortify, make dead
From the root: ΝΕΚΡΟΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to make something dead, to kill it, or to mortify it. It is often used metaphorically in the New Testament to describe the act of suppressing or destroying sinful desires and practices within oneself. It functions as a command, instructing the audience to actively engage in this process.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd Person Plural
Strong’s number: G3499 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Colossians — 3:5
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Colossians — 3:5
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΝΕΚΡΟΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΝΕΚΡΟΩ — to put to death, to make dead, to deaden, to kill
- ΝΕΚΡΩΘΗΝΑΙ — to be made dead, to be deadened, to be killed, to be rendered powerless
- ΝΕΝΕΚΡΩΜΕΝΟΝ — deadened, made dead, rendered powerless, impotent, worn out, a deadened one, a made dead one
- ΝΕΝΕΚΡΩΜΕΝΟΥ — (of) dead, (of) having been made dead, (of) having died
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