2001 Translation

THANATOS, thanatos

Sounds Like: THAH-nah-tos

Translations: death, a death

From the root: ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to death, the cessation of life. It can be used literally to describe physical death, or metaphorically to describe spiritual death or separation from God. It is often used in contexts discussing mortality, judgment, or the end of an era.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G2288 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:49, 11:20, 12:8

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 3:4, 9:3, 51:4

Codex Sinaiticus

• Esther — 4:17i
• Judith — 11:11
• Psalms — 33:22, 48:15, 54:16, 115:6
• Proverbs — 18:21, 24:8
• Ecclesiastes — 3:19
• Song of Solomon — 8:6
• Job — 3:23, 15:34, 18:13, 28:22, 30:23
• Wisdom — 2:24
• Sirach — 11:14, 14:12, 15:17, 28:21, 30:17, 37:18, 38:18, 39:29, 40:9
• Isaiah — 25:8
• Jeremiah — 9:20
• Lamentations — 0:20
• Habakkuk — 2:5
• Romans — 5:12, 5:14, 5:17, 6:9, 6:21, 6:23, 7:13, 8:6, 8:38
• 1 Corinthians — 3:22, 15:21, 15:26, 15:54
• 2 Corinthians — 4:12
• Revelation — 6:8, 9:6, 18:8, 20:6, 20:13, 20:14, 21:4, 21:8

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians — 19:1
• Ignatius’ Letter to the Philadelphians — 8:2
• Ignatius’ Letter to the Magnesians — 5:1

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 25:199, 28:207, 31:215, 38:268, 38:271
• Book Two — 25:199, 28:207, 31:215, 38:268, 38:271

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 4 — 8:271
• Book 5 — 8:252
• Book 6 — 6:127, 7:155, 11:210
• Book 7 — 1:42, 2:46
• Book 13 — 11:310
• Book 15 — 3:60
• Book 17 — 6:176, 8:194
• Book 19 — 1:15, 1:17

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 5:14, 7:19, 28:13
• Book Two — 17:38
• Book Four — 6:13
• Book Five — 7:25
• Book Seven — 6:20, 8:107

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 45:4, 91:4

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 9:2

Pseudo Clement of Rome

• Clement’s Second Letter — 1:6

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Exodus — 5:3, 9:3
• Ruth — 1:17
• 1 Samuel — 15:32
• 1 Kings — 8:37
• 2 Kings — 2:21, 4:40
• 2 Chronicles — 6:28, 20:9
• Esther — 4:17
• Judith — 11:11
• Psalms — 33:22, 48:15, 54:16, 115:6
• Psalms of Solomon — 15:8
• Proverbs — 18:21, 24:8
• Ecclesiastes — 3:19
• Song of Solomon — 8:6
• Job — 3:23, 15:34, 18:13, 28:22, 30:23
• Wisdom — 2:24
• Sirach — 11:14, 14:12, 15:17, 28:21, 30:17, 37:18, 38:18, 39:29, 40:9
• Isaiah — 25:8
• Jeremiah — 9:21
• Lamentations — 1:20
• Ezekiel — 5:17, 7:15, 28:23
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 13:22
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 13:22
• Habakkuk — 2:5

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 6 — 2:3, 2:4
• Parable 8 — 7:6, 9:4
• Parable 9 — 19:1, 19:2

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Romans — 5:12, 5:14, 5:17, 6:9, 6:21, 6:23, 7:13, 8:6, 8:38
• 1 Corinthians — 3:22, 15:21, 15:26, 15:54
• 2 Corinthians — 4:12
• Revelation — 6:8, 9:6, 18:8, 20:6, 20:13, 20:14, 21:4, 21:8

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ.

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.

• ΘΑΝΑΣΙΜΩΤΑΤΟΝ — most deadly, most mortal, most fatal
• ΘΑΝΑΤΕ — death
• ΘΑΝΑΤΙΚΟΙ — deadly, mortal, pertaining to death, death-dealing
• ΘΑΝΑΤΟ — death, a death, (of) death, (to) death
• ΘΑΝΑΤΟΙ — deaths, a death, death; he kills, it kills
• ΘΑΝΑΤΟΙΣ — to deaths, by deaths, with deaths, deaths
• ΘΑΝΑΤΟΝ — death, a death
• ΘΑΝΑΤΟΥ — (of) death, (of) a death
• ΘΑΝΑΤΟΥΣ — deaths
• ΘΑΝΑΤΟΥΣΘΩΣΑΝ — let them be put to death, they must be put to death
• ΘΑΝΑΤΩ — (to) death, (by) death, (with) death
• ΘΑΝΑΤΩΘΗΣΕΣΘΑΙ — to be put to death, to be executed, to be killed
• ΘΑΝΑΤΩΝ — of deaths, of the dead, of mortal things, of mortals
• ΘΑΝΑΤΩΣΗ — putting to death, an execution, execution, death
• ΘΑΝΑΤΩΣΙΝ — death, a death, execution, putting to death
• ΘΑΝΟΤΟΣ — death, a death
• ΘΑΝΟΤΟΥ — of death, of a death
• ΘΑΥΑΤΟΥ — of death

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