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apothnēskō G599

ἀποθνήσκω (apothnēskō) means “to die” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

ἀποθνήσκω Greek · G599 111 tagged occurrences in 100 verses

Pronunciation guide: ap-oth-nace'-ko Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G0599

ἀποθνήσκω · apothnēskō · to die

ἀπο-θνῄσκω, [in LXX chiefly for מוּת ;] to die: of natural death, Mrk.5:35, al.; of violent death (pass. of ἀποκτείνω), esp. of Christ, Mat.26:35, Jhn.12:33, Heb.10:28, al.; of spiritual death, Jhn.6:50, Rom.8:13, al.; with dative ref., Rom.6:2, 10 14:7, 8, Gal.2:19; accusative, ὅ, Rom.6:10; before ἐν, Mat.8:32, Jhn.8:21, 24 1Co.15:22, Heb.11:37, Rev.14:13; before ὑπέρ, περί, Jhn.11:50, 51 18:14, Rom.5:6-8 14:15, 1Co.15:3, 2Co.5:15, 1Th.5:10, 1Pe.3:18; ἀπό, Col.2:20; ἐκ, Rev.8:11; figuratively, 1Co.15:31 (cf. συν-αποθνήσκω, and V. Milligan, NTD, 258f.; DCG, i, 791b; Cremer, 286; MM, see word; on the perfective force of this verb, M, Pr., 112, 114; and on the distinction bet. present and aor., ib. 113 f.). (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

I am dying, am about to die, wither, decay.

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How translators render G599

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
died 36
die 13
to die 10
dies 7
he died 3
we die 3
is dead 2
it dies 2
you will die 2
and dies 1
but died 1
dead 1
dying 1
even though he is dead 1
from dying 1
has died 1
have died 1
having died 1
he cannot die again 1
he dies 1
he is dead 1
he would not die 1
i face death 1
is not dead 1
mortal 1
she is not dead 1
she was dead 1
they died 1
they were put to death 1
this was so 1
was dying 1
we died 1
we may die 1
when he was dying 1
will never die 1
would not have died 1
you died 1
you have died 1
you would die 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
died 23
die 19
to die 8
dead 6
is dead 5
are dead 4
be dead 3
he died 3
we die 3
and died 2
dieth 2
dying 2
is 2
should 2
ye shall die 2
am dead 1
death 1
had 1
have died 1
he being dead 1
he had been 1
he is dead 1
he shall 1
he that is dead 1
he were dead 1
i die 1
it die 1
lay a dying 1
perished 1
shall 1
shall die 1
she is 1
she was dead 1
should die 1
that being dead 1
that die 1
that died 1
they die 1
was dead 1
we be dead 1
we may die 1
were 1
were slain 1
when he was a dying 1
which died 1
will 1
ye are dead 1
ye be dead 1

Verses containing G599

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  1. Romans 5:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

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  2. Romans 5:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.

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  3. Romans 5:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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  4. Romans 5:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!

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  5. Romans 6:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?

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  6. Romans 6:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

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  7. Romans 6:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.

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  8. 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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  9. Romans 6:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.

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  10. Romans 7:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

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  11. Romans 7:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

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  12. Romans 7:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

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  13. Romans 7:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

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    Source alternate reference: 7.9

  14. Romans 8:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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  15. Romans 8:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.

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  16. Romans 14:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.

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  17. Romans 14:8 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

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  18. 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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  19. Romans 14:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.

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  20. 1 Corinthians 8:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.

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  21. 1 Corinthians 9:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that something be done for me. Indeed, I would rather die than let anyone nullify my boast.

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  22. 1 Corinthians 15:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

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  23. 1 Corinthians 15:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

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  24. 1 Corinthians 15:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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  25. 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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  26. 1 Corinthians 15:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

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  27. 2 Corinthians 5:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.

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  28. 2 Corinthians 5:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.

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  29. 2 Corinthians 6:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;

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  30. Galatians 2:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.

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  31. Galatians 2:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

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  32. Philippians 1:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

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  33. Colossians 2:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:

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  34. Colossians 3:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

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  35. 1 Thessalonians 4:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.

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  36. 1 Thessalonians 5:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.

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  37. Hebrews 7:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In the case of the Levites, mortal men collect the tenth; but in the case of Melchizedek, it is affirmed that he lives on.

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  38. Hebrews 9:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

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  39. Hebrews 10:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

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  40. Hebrews 11:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous when God gave approval to his gifts. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.

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  41. Hebrews 11:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

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  42. Hebrews 11:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.

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  43. Hebrews 11:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.

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  44. Jude 1:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.

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  45. Revelation 3:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Wake up and strengthen what remains, which is about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God.

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  46. Revelation 8:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

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  47. Revelation 8:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter like wormwood oil, and many people died from the bitter waters.

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  48. Revelation 9:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.

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  49. Revelation 14:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them.”

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  50. Revelation 16:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it turned to blood like that of the dead, and every living thing in the sea died.

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