2001 Translation

NEKROI, nekroi

Sounds Like: NEK-roy

Translations: dead, the dead, dead ones

From the root: ΝΕΚΡΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun

Explanation: This word refers to something that is dead, lifeless, or deceased. It can be used as an adjective to describe a dead person or thing, or it can function as a noun to refer to dead people collectively, such as 'the dead'. It is often used in a literal sense concerning physical death, but can also be used metaphorically to describe spiritual deadness or a state of being unresponsive.

Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G3498 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 103:5

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:13, 4:53

Codex Sinaiticus

• Tobit — 5:10
• Psalms — 113:25
• Ecclesiastes — 9:5
• Isaiah — 22:2, 26:14, 26:19, 34:3
• Jeremiah — 7:33, 9:21
• Matthew — 11:5, 28:4
• Luke — 7:22, 20:37
• John — 5:25
• 1 Corinthians — 15:15, 15:16, 15:29, 15:32, 15:35, 15:52
• 1 Thessalonians — 4:16
• Revelation — 14:13, 20:12
• Shepherd of Hermas — 93:4, 93:6

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 15 — 5:153

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 8:11
• Book Three — 7:117, 7:206, 10:69
• Book Four — 1:27, 6:28
• Book Six — 9:22

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 48:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Deuteronomy — 28:26
• 2 Samuel — 19:6
• 2 Chronicles — 20:24
• Tobit — 5:10
• Psalms — 113:25
• Odes — 4:14, 4:19
• Ecclesiastes — 9:5
• Isaiah — 22:2, 26:14, 26:19, 34:3
• Jeremiah — 7:33, 9:22

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 9 — 16:4, 16:6

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 11:5, 28:4
• Luke — 7:22, 20:37
• John — 5:25
• 1 Corinthians — 15:15, 15:16, 15:29, 15:32, 15:35, 15:52
• 1 Thessalonians — 4:16
• Revelation — 14:13, 20:12

From the same root

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

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.

• ΝΕΚΡ — dead, a dead person, a corpse, of a dead person
• ΝΕΚΡΑ — dead, a dead (woman), a dead (thing)
• ΝΕΚΡΑΝ — dead, a dead one, a dead person
• ΝΕΚΡΑΣ — dead, of a dead person, of dead people, dead ones, a dead one
• ΝΕΚΡΙΜΑΙΟΝ — dead body, corpse, a dead thing
• ΝΕΚΡΟ — dead, a dead person, corpse, a corpse, of the dead, to the dead
• ΝΕΚΡΟΙΣ — (to) dead, (to) a dead person, (to) dead ones, (to) corpses
• ΝΕΚΡΟΝ — dead, a dead one, a dead person, a corpse, a dead thing
• ΝΕΚΡΟΣ — dead, a dead person, a corpse
• ΝΕΚΡΟΥ — of a dead person, of a dead body, of a corpse, of the dead, of a dead man, dead
• ΝΕΚΡΟΥΣ — dead, the dead, dead ones
• ΝΕΚΡΩ — dead, a dead one, (to) a dead one, (to) a corpse, (to) a dead body
• ΝΕΚΡΩΝ — of the dead, of dead ones
• ΤΩΝΝΕΚΡΩΝ — of the dead, of the dead ones

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