Dead

νεκρός, -α, -ον, [in LXX chiefly for מֵת ;] dead, __I. as adj., __1. prop.: Act.5:10 20:9, Jas.2:26, Rev.1:18, al.; ὡσεὶ ν., Mat.28:4, Mrk.9:26, Rev.1:17; of that which is subject to death, Rom.8:10. __2. Metaphorical, __(a) of persons: Luk.15:24, 32; of those immersed in worldly cares, Mat.8:22, Luk.9:60; of spiritual death, Jhn.5:25, Rom.6:13, Eph.5:14, Rev.3:1; τ. παραπτώμασιν, Eph.2:1, 5 Col.2:13; of the opposite condition, ν. τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, Rom.6:11; __(b) of things regarded as inoperative, devoid of power: ἁμαρτία, Rom.7:8; πίστις, Jas.2:17, 26; ἔργα, Heb.6:1 9:14. __II. As subst., νεκρός, ὁ (Hom., al.), chiefly in pl. (οἱ) ν., the dead: Mat.11:5, Mrk.12:26, Luk.20:37, 1Co.15:15, al.; ἀνάστασις (τ.) νεκρῶν, Mat.22:31, Act.17:32, al.; ν. . . . ζῶντες, Mat.22:32, Mrk.12:27, Act.10:42, al.; ἀπὸ νεκρῶν, Luk.16:30; ἐκ ν., Mrk.6:14, Luk.24:46, Jhn.12:1, Act.13:34, Rom.10:7, al.; πρωτότοκος ἐκ τῶν ν., Col.1:18; ζωὴ ἐκ ν., Rom.11:15; constr. praegn., ἐκ ν. ζῶντες, Rom.6:13. (AS)

dead, without life, Mat. 11.5; 22.31; met. νεκρός τινι, dead to a thing, no longer devoted to, or under the influence of a thing, Ro. 6.11; in the sense of vain, fruitless, powerless, inefficacious, Ja. 2.17, 20, 26; morally or spiritually dead, sinful, vicious, impious, Ro. 6.13. Ep. 5.14; obnoxious to death, mortal, Ro. 8.10; met. and including the idea of future punishment and misery, Ep. 2.1, 5. Col. 2.13; causing death and misery, fatal, having a destructive power, He. 6.1; 9.14, et al.: whence

properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead

in plural only)

properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable)

by implication, to ravage

dead (literally or figuratively

also as noun)