θάνατος
death
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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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.
50 distinct verses where G2288 appears in the Genitive case, across 14 books. 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.
Matthew 4 verses
- Matthew 4:16 θανάτου n gen sg masc The people who sat in darkness saw a great light, To those who sat in the region and shadow of death, To them light has dawned."
- Matthew 16:28 θανάτου n gen sg masc Most assuredly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom."
- Matthew 26:38 θανάτου n gen sg masc Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me."
- Matthew 26:66 θανάτου n gen sg masc What do you think?" They answered, "He is worthy of death!"
Mark 3 verses
- Mark 9:1 θανάτου n gen sg masc He said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see the Kingdom of God come with power."
- Mark 14:34 θανάτου n gen sg masc He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch."
- Mark 14:64 θανάτου n gen sg masc You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" They all condemned him to be worthy of death.
Luke 5 verses
- Luke 1:79 θανάτου n gen sg masc To shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; To guide our feet into the way of peace."
- Luke 9:27 θανάτου n gen sg masc But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here, who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Kingdom of God."
- Luke 23:15 θανάτου n gen sg masc Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.
- Luke 23:22 θανάτου n gen sg masc He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him."
- Luke 24:20 θανάτου n gen sg masc and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
John 3 verses
- John 5:24 θανάτου n gen sg masc "Most assuredly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
- John 8:52 θανάτου n gen sg masc Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.'
- John 11:13 θανάτου n gen sg masc Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.
Acts 8 verses
- Acts 2:24 θανάτου n gen sg masc whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
- Acts 13:28 θανάτου n gen sg masc Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.
- Acts 22:4 θανάτου n gen sg masc I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
- Acts 23:29 θανάτου n gen sg masc I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
- Acts 25:11 θανάτου n gen sg masc For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don't refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!"
- Acts 25:25 θανάτου n gen sg masc But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him.
- Acts 26:31 θανάτου n gen sg masc When they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, "This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds."
- Acts 28:18 θανάτου n gen sg masc who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.
Romans 5 verses
- Romans 1:32 θανάτου n gen sg masc who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
- Romans 5:10 θανάτου n gen sg masc For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
- Romans 6:5 θανάτου n gen sg masc For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
- Romans 7:24 θανάτου n gen sg masc What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
- Romans 8:2 θανάτου n gen sg masc For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
1 Corinthians 1 verse
2 Corinthians 4 verses
- 2 Corinthians 1:9 θανάτου n gen sg masc Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
- 2 Corinthians 1:10 θανάτου n gen sg masc who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
- 2 Corinthians 2:16 θανάτου θάνατον n gen sg masc n acc sg masc to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
- 2 Corinthians 3:7 θανάτου n gen sg masc But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which was passing away:
Philippians 3 verses
- Philippians 1:20 θανάτου n gen sg masc according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
- Philippians 2:8 θανάτου θανάτου n gen sg masc n gen sg masc And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.
- Philippians 2:30 θανάτου n gen sg masc because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
Colossians 1 verse
Hebrews 5 verses
- Hebrews 2:9 θανάτου θανάτου n gen sg masc n gen sg masc But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
- Hebrews 2:14 θανάτου θανάτου n gen sg masc n gen sg masc Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
- Hebrews 2:15 θανάτου n gen sg masc and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
- Hebrews 5:7 θανάτου n gen sg masc He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
- Hebrews 9:15 θανάτου n gen sg masc For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
James 1 verse
1 John 1 verse
Revelation 6 verses
- Revelation 1:18 θανάτου n gen sg masc and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
- Revelation 2:10 θανάτου n gen sg masc Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
- Revelation 2:11 θανάτου n gen sg masc He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won't be harmed by the second death.
- Revelation 12:11 θανάτου n gen sg masc They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.
- Revelation 13:3 θάνατον θανάτου n acc sg masc n gen sg masc One of his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled at the beast.
- Revelation 13:12 θανάτου n gen sg masc He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. He makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.
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.
