King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G3499
Transliteration: nekroō
Phonetic Spelling: (nek-ro'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to put to death
Meaning: to put to death
νεκρόω, νεκρῷ: 1 aorist imperative Νεκρώσατε; perfect passive participle νενεκρωμενος; to make dead (Vulg. and Latin Fathersmortifico), to put to death, slay: τινα, properly, Authol. app. 313, 5; passive νενεκρωμενος, hyperbolically, worn out, of an impotent old man, Hebrews 11:12; also σῶμα νενεκρωμενος, Romans 4:19; equivalent to to deprive of power, destroy the strength of: τά μέλη, i. e. the evil desire lurking in the members (of the body), Colossians 3:5. (τά δόγματα, Antoninus 7, 2; τήν ἕξιν, Plutarch, de primo frig. 21; (ἄνθρωπος, of obduracy, Epictetus diss. 1, 5, 7).)
Word Summary
nekroō: to put to death
Original Word: νεκρόωTransliteration: nekroō
Phonetic Spelling: (nek-ro'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to put to death
Meaning: to put to death
Strong's Concordance
be dead, mortify. From nekros; to deaden, i.e. (figuratively) to subdue -- be dead, mortify.
see GREEK nekros
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3499: νεκρόωνεκρόω, νεκρῷ: 1 aorist imperative Νεκρώσατε; perfect passive participle νενεκρωμενος; to make dead (Vulg. and Latin Fathersmortifico), to put to death, slay: τινα, properly, Authol. app. 313, 5; passive νενεκρωμενος, hyperbolically, worn out, of an impotent old man, Hebrews 11:12; also σῶμα νενεκρωμενος, Romans 4:19; equivalent to to deprive of power, destroy the strength of: τά μέλη, i. e. the evil desire lurking in the members (of the body), Colossians 3:5. (τά δόγματα, Antoninus 7, 2; τήν ἕξιν, Plutarch, de primo frig. 21; (ἄνθρωπος, of obduracy, Epictetus diss. 1, 5, 7).)