thanatoō · put to death

What it means

thanatoō (θανατόω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “put to death”.

Kill.

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. To take someone's life.
2. To be dead to something, like evil ways.

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

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×2
• Luke×1
• Romans×3
• 2 Corinthians×1
• 1 Peter×1

• Matthew 10:21

  And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and put them to death.

• Matthew 26:59

  Now the high priests and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus so that they might put him to death,

• Matthew 27:1

  When morning came, all the high priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus so as to put him to death.

• Mark 13:12

  And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

• Mark 14:55

  And the high priests and the whole council were seeking testimony against Jesus to put him to death, and they were not finding any.

• Luke 21:16

  And you will be handed over even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put to death some of you,

• Romans 7:4

  So, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of the Messiah, so that you might belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

• Romans 8:13

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

• Romans 8:36

  As it is written: For your sake we are being put to death all the day; we were counted as sheep for slaughter.

• 2 Corinthians 6:9

  as unknown and yet well known; as dying, and look, we live; as disciplined and yet not put to death;

• 1 Peter 3:18

  Because the Messiah also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, so that he might bring you to God, put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,