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Redirected from νεκροϲ, replacing lunate sigma Ϲϲ with normal sigma Σσ/ς.

ΝΕΚΡΟΣ, νεκρος

NEKROS, nekros

Sounds Like: NEK-ros

Translations: dead, a dead person, a corpse

From the root: ΝΕΚΡΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun

Explanation: This word refers to something that is dead, lifeless, or deceased. As an adjective, it describes a state of being without life. As a noun, it refers to a dead body or a deceased individual. In Koine Greek, it can be used literally for physical death or metaphorically for spiritual death or insensitivity.

Inflection: Masculine, Feminine, Neuter; Singular, Plural; All cases

Strong’s number: G3498 (Lookup on BibleHub)


Instances

Barnabus
  • Letter of Barnabas — 12:7
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
  • Parable 9 — 16:3
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

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
  • 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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