νεκρός
dead
‘dead’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
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.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3498 appears in the Book of James — 2 distinct verses. 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.
“dead” is the headline sense of the Greek adjective νεκρος (nekrós). First canonically at Matthew 8:22, it enters the text early. The Greek New Testament uses it across 120 verses — common. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. It shares a root with νεκροω. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3498 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 →
- 120
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 120 distinct verses.
- 18 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 18 of 27 New Testament books.
- #130
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 130 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 120 occurrences in the concordance →
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 120 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 40 verses · 33%
- Gospels 39 verses · 33%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 30 verses · 25%
- Johannine 19 verses · 16%
- Revelation 11 verses · 9%
- Hebrews 7 verses · 6%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 6 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: Dead 125×
- American Standard Version: Dead 115×, Is dead 2×, One dead 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Dead 122×, Death 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Dead 108×, Dead ones 16×, Dead man 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3498 across 132 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 G3498 across 128 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 G3498 across 126 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3498 across 133 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.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 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.
- properly
- metaph.
Word origin
Origin: from an apparently primary nekus (a corpse)
From an apparently primary word νέκυς nekus (a corpse ); dead (literally or figuratively; also as noun): - dead.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 13 distinct written forms G3498 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| νεκρῶν nekrō̂n | Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 14:2 | 76 |
| νεκροὺς nekroùs | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 8:22 | 13 |
| νεκροὶ nekroì | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 11:5 | 11 |
| νεκρούς nekroús | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 8:22 | 6 |
| νεκρὸς nekròs | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 7:15 | 6 |
| νεκρά nekrá | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 7:8 | 3 |
| νεκροί nekroí | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 28:4 | 3 |
| νεκρός nekrós | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Mark 9:26 | 3 |
| νεκρόν nekrón | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 28:6 | 2 |
| νεκροῖς nekroîs | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Hebrews 9:17 | 2 |
| νεκράν nekrán | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 5:10 | 1 |
| νεκροῦ nekroû | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 16:3 | 1 |
| νεκρὸν nekròn | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Romans 8:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3498, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word νεκρος appears 49 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 47 verses in 15 books.
- 49
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 47
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 23:3 νεκρός
- Leviticus 21:5 νεκρός
- Numbers 19:16 νεκρός
- Deuteronomy 14:1 νεκρός
- Judges 4:22 νεκρός
- 1 Samuel 31:8 νεκρός
- 2 Samuel 19:7 νεκρός
- 2 Kings 19:35 νεκρός
- 2 Chronicles 20:24 νεκρός
- Psalms 30:13 νεκρός
- Ecclesiastes 9:3 νεκρός
- Isaiah 5:13 νεκρός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3498) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 23:3 νεκρός Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,
- Genesis 23:4 νεκρός "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
- Genesis 23:6 νεκρός "Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. In the choice of our tombs bury your dead. None of us will withhold from you his tomb, but that you may bury your dead."
- Genesis 23:8 νεκρός He talked with them, saying, "If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
- Genesis 23:11 νεκρός "No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."
- Genesis 23:13 νεκρός He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."
- Genesis 23:15 νεκρός "My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead."
- Leviticus 21:5 νεκρός "'They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
- Numbers 19:16 νεκρός Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
- Deuteronomy 14:1 νεκρός You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
- Deuteronomy 18:11 νεκρός or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
- Deuteronomy 28:26 νεκρός Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.
- Judges 4:22 νεκρός Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek. He came to her; and, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent-pin was in his temples.
- Judges 19:28 νεκρός He said to her, Up, and let us be going; but none answered: then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and got him to his place.
- 1 Samuel 31:8 νεκρός It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
- 2 Samuel 19:7 νεκρός Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably to your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't go forth, there will not stay a man with you this night: and that will be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.
- 2 Kings 19:35 νεκρός It happened that night, that the angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred eighty-five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
- 2 Kings 23:30 νεκρός His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.
- 2 Chronicles 20:24 νεκρός When Judah came to the watch-tower of the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped.
- Psalms 30:13 νεκρός
- Psalms 37:21 νεκρός The wicked borrow, and don't pay back, But the righteous give generously.
- Psalms 87:5 νεκρός Yes, of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one was born in her;" The Most High himself will establish her.
- Psalms 87:11 νεκρός
- Psalms 105:28 νεκρός He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words.
- Psalms 113:25 νεκρός
- Psalms 142:3 νεκρός When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, You knew my path. In the way in which I walk, They have hidden a snare for me.
- Ecclesiastes 9:3 νεκρός This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
- Ecclesiastes 9:4 νεκρός For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
- Ecclesiastes 9:5 νεκρός For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
- Isaiah 5:13 νεκρός Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, And their multitudes are parched with thirst.
- Isaiah 8:19 νεκρός When they shall tell you, "Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:" shouldn't a people consult with their God? on behalf of the living [should they consult] with the dead?
- Isaiah 14:19 νεκρός But you are cast forth away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.
- Isaiah 22:2 νεκρός You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.
- Isaiah 26:14 νεκρός [They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all memory of them to perish.
- Isaiah 26:19 νεκρός Your dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
- Isaiah 34:3 νεκρός Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
- Isaiah 37:36 νεκρός The angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
- Jeremiah 7:33 νεκρός The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.
- Jeremiah 9:21 νεκρός For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets.
- Jeremiah 19:7 νεκρός I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.
- Jeremiah 40:5 νεκρός Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, [said he], to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go. So the captain of the guard gave him food and a present, and let him go.
- Lamentations 3:6 νεκρός He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
- Ezekiel 9:7 νεκρός He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go you forth. They went forth, and struck in the city.
- Ezekiel 11:6 νεκρός You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled the streets of it with the slain.
- Ezekiel 11:7 νεκρός Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this [city] is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out of the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 32:18 νεκρός Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.
- Ezekiel 37:9 νεκρός Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3498) 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.
