θάνατος
death
‘death’ is one of 6 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G2288 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of James. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
James
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
θανατος — transliterated thánatos — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “death.” Its lexical range runs to 6 senses. The Greek New Testament uses it across 106 verses — common. It first appears in Matthew 4:16. Related forms include θνησκω, θνητος and θανασιμος. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2288 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 106
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 106 distinct verses.
- 15 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 15 of 27 New Testament books.
- #137
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 137 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 106 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 20 verses 19%
- Revelation 15 verses 14%
- John 8 verses 8%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 106 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 42 verses · 40%
- Gospels 28 verses · 26%
- Johannine 26 verses · 25%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 15 verses · 14%
- Revelation 15 verses · 14%
- Hebrews 8 verses · 8%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 5 verses · 5%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Death 110×, Is death 4×, Deadly 2×
- American Standard Version: Death 101×, Is death 4×, Manner of death 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Death 104×, Death sentence 2×, Mortal 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Death 116×, Is death 3×, Of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2288 across 119 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2288 across 114 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2288 across 114 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2288 across 122 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 6 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- that separation (whether natural or violent) of the soul and the body by which the life on earth is ended
- with the implied idea of future misery in hell
- since the nether world…
- metaph., the loss of that life which alone is worthy of the name,
- the miserable state of the wicked dead in hell
- in the widest sense…
Word origin
Derived from θνησκω (thnḗskō) (G2348) — to die.
From G2348 ; (properly an adjective used as a noun) death (literally or figuratively): - X deadly (be...) death.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G2288 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| θανάτου thanátou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 4:16 | 53 |
| θάνατον thánaton | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 10:21 | 26 |
| θάνατος thánatos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Romans 5:12 | 24 |
| θανάτῳ thanátō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 15:4 | 14 |
| θάνατε thánate | Noun, Vocative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 15:55 | 2 |
| θανάτοις thanátois | Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 11:23 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2288, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
- θανασιμος thanásimos G2286 deadly
- θανατηφορος thanatḗphoros G2287 death-bringing
- θανατοω thanatóō G2289 to put to death
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word θανατος appears 249 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 238 verses in 31 books.
- 249
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 238
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 31 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 31 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:17 θάνατος
- Exodus 5:3 θάνατος
- Leviticus 20:2 θάνατος
- Numbers 12:12 θάνατος
- Deuteronomy 19:6 θάνατος
- Joshua 2:13 θάνατος
- Judges 5:18 θάνατος
- Ruth 1:17 θάνατος
- 1 Samuel 1:11 θάνατος
- 2 Samuel 1:23 θάνατος
- 1 Kings 2:26 θάνατος
- 2 Kings 1:4 θάνατος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2288) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 238. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 2:17 θάνατος but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."
- Genesis 3:4 θάνατος The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,
- Genesis 21:16 θάνατος She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
- Genesis 26:11 θάνατος Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
- Exodus 5:3 θάνατος They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."
- Exodus 9:3 θάνατος behold, the hand of Yahweh is on your cattle which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.
- Exodus 9:15 θάνατος For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;
- Exodus 10:17 θάνατος Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death."
- Exodus 19:12 θάνατος You shall set bounds to the people round about, saying, 'Be careful that you don't go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.
- Exodus 21:12 θάνατος "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
- Exodus 21:15 θάνατος "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
- Exodus 21:16 θάνατος "Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
- Exodus 21:17 θάνατος "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
- Exodus 22:18 θάνατος "You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
- Exodus 22:19 θάνατος "Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.
- Exodus 31:14 θάνατος You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
- Exodus 31:15 θάνατος Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.
- Leviticus 20:2 θάνατος "Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, 'Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his seed to Molech; he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
- Leviticus 20:9 θάνατος "'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
- Leviticus 20:10 θάνατος "'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
- Leviticus 20:11 θάνατος The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
- Leviticus 20:12 θάνατος "'If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have committed a perversion; their blood shall be upon them.
- Leviticus 20:15 θάνατος "'If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.
- Leviticus 20:16 θάνατος "'If a woman approaches any animal, and lies down with it, you shall kill the woman, and the animal: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
- Leviticus 20:27 θάνατος "'A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.'"
- Leviticus 24:16 θάνατος He who blasphemes the name of Yahweh, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: the foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
- Leviticus 24:17 θάνατος "'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
- Leviticus 24:21 θάνατος He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.
- Leviticus 26:25 θάνατος I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you will be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
- Leviticus 27:29 θάνατος "'No one devoted, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.
- Numbers 12:12 θάνατος Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.
- Numbers 14:12 θάνατος I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.
- Numbers 15:35 θάνατος Yahweh said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.
- Numbers 16:29 θάνατος If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Yahweh hasn't sent me.
- Numbers 26:10 θάνατος and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
- Numbers 26:65 θάνατος For Yahweh had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. There was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Numbers 35:16 θάνατος But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:17 θάνατος If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:18 θάνατος Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:21 θάνατος or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.
- Numbers 35:31 θάνατος Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
- Deuteronomy 19:6 θάνατος lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.
- Deuteronomy 21:22 θάνατος If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree;
- Deuteronomy 22:26 θάνατος but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter;
- Deuteronomy 28:21 θάνατος Yahweh will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he have consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 30:15 θάνατος Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;
- Deuteronomy 30:19 θάνατος I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
- Deuteronomy 31:14 θάνατος Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a charge. Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.
- Deuteronomy 31:27 θάνατος For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against Yahweh; and how much more after my death?
- Joshua 2:13 θάνατος and that you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2288) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
