thanatos · death

What it means

thanatos (θάνατος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “death”.

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. The end of the body's life.
2. Death as sin's power, the opposite of life.
3. A plague that kills many.

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

Word study

Death. Related to θνῄσκω, “to die”, and its compound ἀποθνῄσκω (G599); of the same family is θανατόω, “to put to death”.

• “Has passed from death to life” John 5:24
• “The pay of sin is death” Romans 6:23
• “The last enemy … death” 1 Corinthians 15:261 Corinthians 15:55
• “Obedient to the point of death” Philippians 2:8
• “Will certainly not taste death” Matthew 16:28
• “Death will be no more”; Death as a rider Revelation 21:4Revelation 6:8

How we translate it

“Death” 116 times, “must surely die” 2, “deaths” 1, “pestilence” 1. In Revelation 6:8, “Death” with a capital letter as the rider's name, and “pestilence” when it is the plague that kills.

How it is translated

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

• death ×116
• must surely die ×2
• deaths ×1
• pestilence ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×7
• Mark×6
• Luke×7
• John×8
• Acts×8
• Romans×22
• 1 Corinthians×8
• 2 Corinthians×9
• Philippians×6
• Colossians×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×10
• James×2
• 1 John×6
• Revelation×19

• Matthew 4:16

  the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death, light dawned on them.”

• 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 15:4

  For God said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’

• Matthew 16:28

  Truly I tell you, there are some of those standing here who will certainly not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”

• Matthew 20:18

  “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death

• Matthew 26:38

  Then he says to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, to the point of death; remain here and keep watch with me.”

• Matthew 26:66

  What do you think?” And they answered, “He is deserving of death.”

• Mark 7:10

  For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’

• Mark 9:1

  And he was saying to them, “Truly I tell you, there are some of those standing here who will certainly not taste death until they see the kingdom of God having come with power.”

• Mark 10:33

  “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and hand him over to the nations,

• 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 14:34

  And he says to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, to the point of death; remain here and keep watch.”

• Mark 14:64

  You heard the blasphemy; what does it seem to you?” And they all condemned him as deserving death.

• Luke 1:79

  to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

• Luke 2:26

  And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Messiah.

• Luke 9:27

  But I tell you truly, there are some of those standing here who will certainly not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.”

• Luke 22:33

  And he said to him, “Lord, with you I am ready to go both to prison and to death.”

• Luke 23:15

  no, nor has Herod, for he sent him back to us; and look, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.

• Luke 23:22

  And he said to them a third time, “Why, what evil has this man done? I have found no guilt deserving death in him; so after punishing him I will release him.”

• Luke 24:20

  and how our high priests and rulers handed him over to a sentence of death and crucified him.

• John 5:24

  Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes the one who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

• John 8:51

  Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death, ever.”

• John 8:52

  The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, and so did the prophets, and you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death, ever.’

• John 11:4

  But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness is not to death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

• John 11:13

  Now Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about the rest of sleep.

• John 12:33

  He said this to show by what kind of death he was going to die.

• John 18:32

  This was so that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled that he had spoken, showing by what kind of death he was going to die.

• John 21:19

  He said this to show by what kind of death he would glorify God. And having said this, he says to him, “Follow me.”

• Acts 2:24

  Him God raised up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.

• Acts 13:28

  And though they found no cause for death, they asked Pilate that he be executed.

• Acts 22:4

  I persecuted this Way to the point of death, binding and handing over to prisons both men and women,

• Acts 23:29

  I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but having no charge deserving death or chains.

• Acts 25:11

  If then I am a wrongdoer and have done anything deserving death, I do not refuse to die; but if there is nothing in the things of which these men accuse me, no one can surrender me to them. I appeal to Caesar.”

• Acts 25:25

  But I found that he had done nothing deserving death; and since he himself appealed to the Augustus, I decided to send him.

• Acts 26:31

  and when they had withdrawn, they were speaking to one another, saying, “This man is doing nothing deserving death or chains.”

• Acts 28:18

  who, when they had examined me, wanted to release me because there was no cause for death in me.

• Romans 1:32

  They, though they know the righteous decree of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.

• Romans 5:10

  For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

• Romans 5:12

  Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death, and so death spread to all people, because all sinned—

• Romans 5:14

  Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a figure of the one who was to come.

And 80 more times.