nekros · dead

What it means

nekros (νεκρός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “dead”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Someone who no longer has life, whose body has no breath left.
2. Without real life before God.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

Dead; as a noun, the dead. It is also used figuratively.

• “Why do you seek the living one among the dead?” Luke 24:5
• “Raised from the dead” 1 Corinthians 15:20
• “He is not God of the dead, but of the living” Mark 12:27
• “This son of mine was dead and has come back to life” Luke 15:24
• Dead in a figurative sense Ephesians 2:1James 2:26

How we translate it

“Dead” 126 times, “corpse” 1, “death” 1. ἐκ νεκρῶν is translated “from the dead”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• dead ×126
• corpse ×1
• death ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×12
• Mark×7
• Luke×14
• John×8
• Acts×17
• Romans×16
• 1 Corinthians×13
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Galatians×1
• Ephesians×4
• Philippians×1
• Colossians×3
• 1 Thessalonians×2
• 2 Timothy×2
• Hebrews×7
• James×3
• 1 Peter×4
• Revelation×13

• Matthew 8:22

  But Jesus says to him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

• Matthew 10:8

  Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Freely you received; freely give.

• Matthew 11:5

  the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

• Matthew 14:2

  and he said to his servants, “This is John the Immerser; he has been raised from the dead, and that is why the powers are at work in him.”

• Matthew 17:9

  And as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Tell no one the vision until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.”

• Matthew 22:31

  But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what 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’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”

• Matthew 23:27

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of all uncleanness.

• Matthew 27:64

  So order the grave to be made secure until the third day, so that his disciples may not come and steal him and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

• Matthew 28:4

  And for fear of him the guards shook and became like dead men.

• Matthew 28:7

  And go quickly and tell his disciples that ‘He has been raised from the dead, and look, he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him.’ Look, I have told you.”

• Mark 6:14

  And King Herod heard of it, for his name had become known; and people were saying, “John the Immerser has been raised from the dead, and that is why these powers are at work in him.”

• Mark 9:9

  And as they were coming down from the mountain, he ordered them to tell no one what they had seen, except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

• Mark 9:10

  And they kept the matter to themselves, discussing what the rising from the dead meant.

• Mark 9:26

  And crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out; and he became like a corpse, so that most were saying that he had died.

• Mark 12:25

  For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

• Mark 12:26

  But concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, at the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob’?

• Mark 12:27

  He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are greatly mistaken.”

• Luke 7:15

  And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and he gave him to his mother.

• Luke 7:22

  And he answered and said to them, “Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the good news proclaimed to them.

• Luke 9:7

  Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was happening, and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had been raised from the dead,

• Luke 9:60

  But he said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead; but you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

• Luke 15:24

  because this son of mine was dead and has come back to life; he was lost and has been found.’ And they began to celebrate.

• Luke 15:32

  But it was necessary to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life, and was lost and has been found.’”

• Luke 16:30

  But he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will change their minds.’

• Luke 16:31

  But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”

• Luke 20:35

  but those who are considered worthy to attain that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage;

• Luke 20:37

  But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

• Luke 20:38

  Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.”

• Luke 24:5

  And as they became terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, they said to them, “Why do you seek the living one among the dead?

• Luke 24:46

  And he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah should suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

• John 2:22

  So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

• John 5:21

  For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom he wishes.

• John 5:25

  Truly, truly, I tell you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

• John 12:1

  So six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

• John 12:9

  So a large crowd of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but so that they might also see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

• John 12:17

  So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead kept testifying.

• John 20:9

  for they did not yet understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

• John 21:14

  This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after being raised from the dead.

• Acts 3:15

  and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

And 88 more times.