Lexical Summary nekrōsis: a putting to death, a state of death Original Word: νέκρωσιςTransliteration: nekrōsis Phonetic Spelling: (nek'-ro-sis) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a putting to death, a state of death Meaning: a putting to death, a state of death Strong's Concordance deadness, dying. From nekroo; decease; figuratively, impotency -- deadness, dying. see GREEK nekroo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3500: νέκρωσιςνέκρωσις, νεκρωσεως, ἡ (νεκρόω); 1. properly, a putting to death (Vulg.mortificatio in 2 Corinthians 4:10), killing. 2. equivalent to τό νεκρουσθαι (the being put to death), with τοῦ Ἰησοῦ added, i. e. the (protracted) death (A. V. the dying) which Jesus underwent in God's service (on the genitive cf. Winer's Grammar, 189 (178) note), Paul so styles the marks of perpetual trials, misfortunes, hardships attended with peril of death, evident in his body (cf. Meyer), 2 Corinthians 4:10. 3. equivalent to τό νενεκρωμένον εἶναι, the dead state (A. V. deadness), utter sluggishness (of bodily members and organs, Galen): Romans 4:19. |
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