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νεκρός (nekros) means “dead” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

νεκρός Greek · G3498 128 tagged occurrences in 120 verses

Pronunciation guide: nek-ros' Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G3498

νεκρός · nekros · dead

νεκρός, -α, -ον, [in LXX chiefly for מֵת ;] dead, I. as adj., 1. prop.: Act.5:10 20:9, Jas.2:26, Rev.1:18, al.; ὡσεὶ ν., Mat.28:4, Mrk.9:26, Rev.1:17; of that which is subject to death, Rom.8:10. 2. Metaphorical, (a) of persons: Luk.15:24, 32; of those immersed in worldly cares, Mat.8:22, Luk.9:60; of spiritual death, Jhn.5:25, Rom.6:13, Eph.5:14, Rev.3:1; τ. παραπτώμασιν, Eph.2:1, 5 Col.2:13; of the opposite condition, ν. τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, Rom.6:11; (b) of things regarded as inoperative, devoid of power: ἁμαρτία, Rom.7:8; πίστις, Jas.2:17, 26; ἔργα, Heb.6:1 9:14. II. As subst., νεκρός, ὁ (Hom., al.), chiefly in pl. (οἱ) ν., the dead: Mat.11:5, Mrk.12:26, Luk.20:37, 1Co.15:15, al.; ἀνάστασις (τ.) νεκρῶν, Mat.22:31, Act.17:32, al.; ν. . . . ζῶντες, Mat.22:32, Mrk.12:27, Act.10:42, al.; ἀπὸ νεκρῶν, Luk.16:30; ἐκ ν., Mrk.6:14, Luk.24:46, Jhn.12:1, Act.13:34, Rom.10:7, al.; πρωτότοκος ἐκ τῶν ν., Col.1:18; ζωὴ ἐκ ν., Rom.11:15; constr. praegn., ἐκ ν. ζῶντες, Rom.6:13. (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

(a) adj: dead, lifeless, subject to death, mortal, (b) noun: a dead body, a corpse.

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How translators render G3498

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
the dead 56
dead 48
of the dead 11
a corpse 1
a dead man 1
dead man 1
dead men 1
death 1
from the dead 1
has died 1
is dead 1
of dead mens 1
of death 1
to those who are now dead 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
the dead 79
dead 28
of the dead 17
from the dead 1
he that was dead 1
men are dead 1
of a dead 1
one dead 1
to them that are dead 1

Verses containing G3498

Page 2 of 3. 120 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Acts 20:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.

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  2. Acts 23:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”

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  3. Acts 24:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    unless it was this one thing I called out as I stood in their presence: ‘It is concerning the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.’”

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  4. Acts 26:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Why would any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?

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  5. Acts 26:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”

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  6. Acts 28:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The islanders were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

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  7. Romans 1:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.

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  8. Romans 4:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

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  9. Romans 4:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

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  10. Romans 6:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.

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  11. Romans 6:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has dominion over Him.

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  12. Romans 6:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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  13. Romans 6:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.

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  14. Romans 7:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

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  15. Romans 7:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

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  16. Romans 8:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.

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  17. Romans 8:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.

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  18. Romans 10:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    or, ‘Who will descend into the Abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”

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  19. Romans 10:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

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  20. Romans 11:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

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  21. Romans 14:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For this reason Christ died and returned to life, that He might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

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  22. 1 Corinthians 15:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

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  23. 1 Corinthians 15:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.

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  24. 1 Corinthians 15:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In that case, we are also exposed as false witnesses about God. For we have testified about God that He raised Christ from the dead, but He did not raise Him if in fact the dead are not raised.

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  25. 1 Corinthians 15:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

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  26. 1 Corinthians 15:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

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  27. 1 Corinthians 15:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.

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  28. 1 Corinthians 15:29 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    If these things are not so, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?

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  29. 1 Corinthians 15:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

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  30. 1 Corinthians 15:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”

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  31. 1 Corinthians 15:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable.

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  32. 1 Corinthians 15:52 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

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  33. 2 Corinthians 1:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

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  34. Galatians 1:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Paul, an apostle—sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead—

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  35. Ephesians 1:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,

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  36. Ephesians 2:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

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  37. Ephesians 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

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  38. Ephesians 5:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.

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    Source alternate reference: 5.13

  39. Philippians 3:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

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  40. Colossians 1:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.

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  41. Colossians 2:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.

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  42. Colossians 2:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,

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  43. 1 Thessalonians 1:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and to await His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.

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  44. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.

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  45. 2 Timothy 2:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David, as proclaimed by my gospel,

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  46. 2 Timothy 4:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom:

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  47. Hebrews 6:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith in God,

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  48. Hebrews 6:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

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  49. Hebrews 9:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!

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  50. Hebrews 9:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    because a will does not take effect until the one who made it has died; it cannot be executed while he is still alive.

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