1. death — Death as the cessation of physical life, whether natural or violent. The single core lexical meaning of θάνατος across all its NT occurrences (120 tokens). Uniformly rendered Ger. 'Tod,' Fr. 'mort,' Heb. 'מָוֶת,' Kor. '죽음,' Hin. 'मृत्यु,' Spa. 'muerte,' Arb. 'المَوْتِ.' The auto-clusters 'of death,' 'by death,' 'deaths,' and 'death' are merely case-inflected forms (genitive θανάτου, dative θανάτῳ, accusative θάνατον, plural θανάτοις) of the same meaning, not distinct senses. Used of: Christ's death (Matt 20:18, 26:38/66, Mark 10:33, 14:34/64, Luke 22:33, John 12:33, 18:32, 21:19, Phil 2:27), physical death generally (Matt 4:16, Luke 1:79, 2:26, 9:27, Heb 7:23, 11:5), the realm/power of death (Matt 16:28 'shadow of death'), and multiple mortal perils (2 Cor 11:23 θανάτοις plural). All map to one semantic domain: the end of biological life. 120×
AR["المَوتِ","المَوْتِ","الْمَوْتِ","لِلْمَوْتِ","مَوت","مَوْتاً","مَوْتًا","مَوْتٍ","مَوْتِ"]·ben["মৃত্যু","মৃত্যুতে","মৃত্যুর","মৃত্যুর,"]·DE["Tod"]·EN["death","of-death"]·FR["mort"]·heb["מַוֶת","מָוֶת"]·HI["मृत्यु","मृत्यु-का","मृत्यु-की","मृत्यु-के","मृत्यु-के-लिए","म्रित्यु"]·ID["kematian","kematian,","mati"]·IT["morte"]·jav["pejah","pejah,","péjah;","sèda","séda,"]·KO["좽음-을","좽음의","죽음","죽음-의","죽음에","죽음에도","죽음을","죽음의"]·PT["da-morte","de-morte","morte","morte,","à-morte"]·RU["смерти","смерть","смерть,"]·ES["de-muerte","la-muerte","muerte"]·SW["cha-kifo","kifo","kifo;","kufa","la","mauti","na","ya-kifo"]·TR["ölüm","ölümden","ölüme","ölümü","ölümü,","ölümün"]·urd["موت","موت-تک","موت-کا","موت-کی","موت-کے","موت-کے-لائق"]
Matt 4:16, Matt 10:21, Matt 16:28, Matt 20:18, Matt 26:38, Matt 26:66, Mark 9:1, Mark 13:12, Mark 14:34, Mark 14:64, Luke 1:79, Luke 2:26 (+38 more)
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θάνᾰτος [θᾰ], ὁ, (θνῄσκω) death, whether natural or violent, Refs 8th c.BC+; τῶν ὑπαλευάμενος θάνατον the death threatened by them, Refs 8th c.BC+; θάνατόνδε to death, Refs 8th c.BC+; θανάτου τέλος, μοῖρα, Refs 4th c.BC+; θανάτου πέρι καὶ ζωᾶς for life and death, Refs 5th c.BC+; πόλεώς ἐστι θ., ἀνάστατον γενέσθαι it is its death, Refs 4th c.BC+; γῆρας ζῶν θ. Refs 2nd c.AD+; θάνατον ἀποθνῄσκειν,…