τελευτή
death
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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G5054 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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 1 verse
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.
“death” is the headline sense of the Greek noun τελευτη (teleutḗ). A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Greek New Testament. It clusters heavily in Matthew, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Found nowhere else but Matthew 2:15. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5054 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Gospels 1 verse · 100%
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 1×
- American Standard Version: Death 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Death 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Death 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5054 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5054 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5054 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5054 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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.
- the end of life, decease, death
Word origin
Derived from τελευταω (teleutáō) (G5053) — to finish.
From G5053 ; decease : - death.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word τελευτη appears 9 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 9 verses in 7 books.
- 9
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 9
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 27:2 τελευτή
- Deuteronomy 31:29 τελευτή
- Joshua 1:1 τελευτή
- Judges 1:1 τελευτή
- 1 Chronicles 22:5 τελευτή
- 2 Chronicles 24:17 τελευτή
- Proverbs 24:14 τελευτή
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5054) 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 27:2 τελευτή He said, "See now, I am old. I don't know the day of my death.
- Deuteronomy 31:29 τελευτή For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
- Deuteronomy 33:1 τελευτή This is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
- Joshua 1:1 τελευτή Now it happened after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
- Judges 1:1 τελευτή It happened after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?
- 1 Chronicles 22:5 τελευτή David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.
- 2 Chronicles 24:17 τελευτή Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king listened to them.
- 2 Chronicles 26:21 τελευτή Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of Yahweh: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.
- Proverbs 24:14 τελευτή So you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; If you have found it, then there will be a reward, Your hope will not be cut off.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5054) 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.
