νεκρός
nekros
dead
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What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word νεκρός (nekros) is a term that primarily means "dead." It is used 132 times in the Bible, indicating its significance in various contexts. The word's meaning is straightforward, referring to a person or thing that has lost life or vitality. The range of usage for νεκρός extends to various aspects of life and death, including physical death, spiritual death, and even metaphorical death. It is often used in conjunction with other words to convey a sense of finality or irreversibility. For example, it may be used to describe a person who has passed away, or to describe a situation that is beyond repair. In terms of significance, the word νεκρός highlights the reality and finality of death, which is a universal human experience. Its frequent use in the Bible underscores the importance of death as a theme in human existence, and its relationship to other aspects of life, such as faith, hope, and redemption.
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Occurrences in Scripture
132 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”
Matthew 8:22But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”
Matthew 23:27“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
Matthew 10:8Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.
Matthew 11:5the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
Matthew 14:2and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him.”
Matthew 17:9As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Don’t tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.”
Matthew 22:31But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,
Matthew 22:32‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
Matthew 27:64Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”
Matthew 28:4For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men.
Matthew 28:7Go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him.’ Behold, I have told you.”
Mark 6:14King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, “John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him.”
Mark 6:16But Herod, when he heard this, said, “This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead.”
Mark 9:9As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
Mark 9:10They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.
Mark 9:26After crying out and convulsing him greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead, so much that most of them said, “He is dead.”
Mark 12:25For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
Mark 12:26But about the dead, that they are raised; haven’t you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
Mark 12:27He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken.”
Mark 16:14Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
Luke 7:15He who was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.
Luke 7:22Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
Luke 9:7Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,
Luke 9:60But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”
Luke 9:60But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”
Luke 15:24for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.
Luke 15:32But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ ”
Luke 16:30“He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’
Luke 16:31“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’ ”
Luke 20:35But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
Luke 20:37But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord ‘The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’
Luke 20:38Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him.”
Luke 24:5Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?
John 12:1Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
Luke 24:46He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
John 2:22When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
John 5:21For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
John 5:25Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.
John 12:9A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
John 12:17The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was testifying about it.
John 20:9For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
John 21:14This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples after he had risen from the dead.
Acts 3:15and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
Acts 4:2being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Acts 4:10may it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands here before you whole in him.
Acts 5:10She fell down immediately at his feet and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.
Acts 10:41not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
Acts 10:42He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.
Acts 13:30But God raised him from the dead,