ΝΕΚΡΟΥΣ, νεκρους
NEKROUS, nekrous
Sounds Like: NEK-roos
Translations: dead, the dead, dead ones
From the root: ΝΕΚΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word refers to something or someone that is dead. It is often used as an adjective to describe a person or thing, but it can also function as a noun, referring to 'the dead' collectively or 'dead ones'. It is used to describe a state of being without life.
Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3498 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 22:5
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:146
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 7:2
Clement of Alexandria
Codex Sinaiticus
- Tobit — 2:8, 12:12
- 4 Maccabees — 15:20
- Psalms — 142:3
- Ecclesiastes — 9:3
- Wisdom — 18:12
- Isaiah — 8:19
- Jeremiah — 19:7
- Matthew — 8:22, 10:8
- Luke — 9:60
- John — 5:21
- Acts of the Apostles — 26:8
- Romans — 4:17, 6:11
- 2 Corinthians — 1:9
- Ephesians — 2:1, 2:5
- Colossians — 2:13
- 2 Timothy — 4:1
- Hebrews — 11:35
- 1 Peter — 4:5
- Revelation — 20:12, 20:13
- Epistle of Barnabas — 7:2
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 2:59
- Book 4 — 5:93
- Book 6 — 14:374
- Book 7 — 1:18
- Book 9 — 1:14
- Book 14 — 15:429
- Book 15 — 1:6
- Book 17 — 10:283
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 17:11, 28:18
- Book Two — 18:9, 19:42
- Book Three — 2:14, 8:1
- Book Four — 5:26, 6:30
- Book Five — 12:26, 12:28
- Book Six — 2:34, 7:10, 9:23
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Deuteronomy — 18:11
- 1 Samuel — 31:8
- Tobit — 2:8, 2:8, 12:12, 12:12
- 4 Maccabees — 15:20
- Psalms — 142:3
- Ecclesiastes — 9:3
- Wisdom — 18:12
- Isaiah — 8:19
- Jeremiah — 19:7
- Lamentations — 3:6
- Ezekiel — 11:6, 11:7, 37:9
- Enoch — 22:5
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 8:22, 10:8
- Luke — 9:60
- John — 5:21
- Acts — 26:8
- Romans — 4:17, 6:11
- 2 Corinthians — 1:9
- Ephesians — 2:1, 2:5
- Colossians — 2:13
- 2 Timothy — 4:1
- Hebrews — 11:35
- 1 Peter — 4:5
- Revelation — 20:12, 20:13
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
- ΝΕΚΡΟΙ — dead, the dead, dead ones
- 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
- 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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