Strong's Greek · G2348

θνήσκω

thnḗskō

be dead, die

Definition

to die (literally or figuratively)

Derivation

a strengthened form of a simpler primary (which is used for it only in certain tenses);

Appears 9 times in Scripture

Luke 7:12

As He approached the town gate, He saw a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.

1 Timothy 5:6

But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.

John 11:44

The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.

Acts 14:19

Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.

Matthew 2:20

“Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the Child’s life are now dead.”

John 19:33

But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.

Luke 8:49

While He was still speaking, someone arrived from the house of the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” he told Jairus. “Do not bother the Teacher anymore.”

Acts 25:19

They only had some contentions with him regarding their own religion and a certain Jesus who had died, but whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

Mark 15:44

Pilate was surprised to hear that Jesus was already dead, so he summoned the centurion to ask if this was so.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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