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ἀποθνήσκω

to die

‘to die’ is one of 5 main senses fuller range ↓

G599 Strong's Greek
apothnḗskō Transliteration
/ap-oth-nace'-ko/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 112 appearances

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About this entry

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αποθνησκω — transliterated apothnḗskō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to die.” Its lexical range runs to 5 senses. Spanning 100 verses in 16 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. Debuting at Matthew 8:32, it then recurs through the corpus. From the same root come απο, απαγγελλω and απαγχομαι. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
be dead
Modern gloss
to die
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G599 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 →

100
distinct verses
The word appears in 100 distinct verses.
16 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 16 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 8:32
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 8:32.
Revelation 16:3
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 16:3.
#149
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 149 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 100 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 46 · 46%
  • Acts 4 · 4%
  • Pauline Epistles 35 · 35%
  • General Epistles 9 · 9%
  • Revelation 6 · 6%

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 100 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 46 verses · 46%
  • Pauline corpus 35 verses · 35%
  • Johannine 30 verses · 30%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 13 verses · 13%
  • Hebrews 7 verses · 7%
  • Revelation 6 verses · 6%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 2%

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: Die 30×, Died 28×, Dead 6×
  • American Standard Version: Died 30×, Die 28×, Dead 5×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Died 37×, Die 23×, Dies 10×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Died 36×, Die 25×, Dies 11×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G599 across 121 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Die” 30×
  • “Died” 28×
  • “Dead” 6×
  • “Is dead” 5×
  • “Are dead” 4×
  • “Be dead” 3×
  • “He died” 3×
  • “We die” 3×
  • “Dieth” 2×
  • “Dying” 2×
  • “Is” 2×
  • “Should” 2×

Plus 31 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 1 further occurrence.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G599 across 113 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Died” 30×
  • “Die” 28×
  • “Dead” 5×
  • “Dieth” 3×
  • “He died” 3×
  • “We die” 3×
  • “Dying” 2×
  • “Should” 2×
  • “Ye died” 2×

Plus 35 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 G599 across 107 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Died” 37×
  • “Die” 23×
  • “Dies” 10×
  • “He died” 3×
  • “We die” 3×
  • “Dying” 2×
  • “He is dead” 2×
  • “Is dead” 2×
  • “You will die” 2×

Plus 23 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 G599 across 125 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Died” 36×
  • “Die” 25×
  • “Dies” 11×
  • “Having died” 7×
  • “Dying” 4×
  • “He died” 3×
  • “They died” 3×
  • “We die” 3×
  • “Would” 3×
  • “You will die” 3×
  • “Have died” 2×
  • “Would die” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 21 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 5 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.

  1. of the natural death of man
  2. of the violent death of man or animals
  3. to perish by means of something
  4. of trees which dry up, of seeds which rot when planted
  5. of eternal death, to be subject to eternal misery in hell

Word origin

Derived from απο (apó) (G575) — from.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 03:07,3

From G575 and G2348 ; to die off (literally or figuratively): - be dead death die lie a-dying be slain (X with).

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 25 distinct written forms G599 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἀπέθανεν apéthanen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 9:24 33
ἀποθανεῖν apothaneîn Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Matthew 26:35 16
ἀποθάνῃ apothánē Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 22:24 13
ἀπέθανον apéthanon Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 8:32 12
ἀποθνῄσκειν apothnḗskein Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive John 4:47 5
ἀποθανεῖσθε apothaneîsthe Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural John 8:21 3
ἀποθνῄσκει apothnḗskei Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Romans 6:9 3
ἀποθνῄσκοντες apothnḗskontes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 Corinthians 6:9 3
ἀπεθάνετε apethánete Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Colossians 2:20 2
ἀπεθάνομεν apethánomen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural Romans 6:2 2
ἀποθανὼν apothanṑn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Romans 6:7 2
ἀποθνήσκει apothnḗskei Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 21:23 2
ἀποθνῄσκομεν apothnḗskomen Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural Romans 14:8 2
ἀποθνῄσκωμεν apothnḗskōmen Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Romans 14:8 2
ἀποθνῄσκων apothnḗskōn Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Mark 12:20 2
ἀπέθνῃσκεν apéthnēsken Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 8:42 1
ἀποθάνωμεν apothánōmen Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural John 11:16 1
ἀποθανεῖται apothaneîtai Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Romans 5:7 1
ἀποθανόντα apothanónta Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Neuter Jude 1:12 1
ἀποθανόντες apothanóntes Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Romans 7:6 1
ἀποθανόντι apothanónti Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine 2 Corinthians 5:15 1
ἀποθανόντος apothanóntos Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 1 Thessalonians 5:10 1
ἀποθανών apothanṓn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Romans 8:34 1
ἀποθνῄσκουσιν apothnḗskousin Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 Corinthians 15:22 1
ἀποθνῄσκω apothnḗskō Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 1 Corinthians 15:31 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G599, 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

+85 more words share this root (not shown).

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 111 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word αποθνησκω appears 463 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 429 verses in 27 books.

463
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
429
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
27 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 27 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G599) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 429. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G599) 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.

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