Words the Bible translates as dead
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- nekrosνεκρόςdead: having died, no longer alive; used as a noun for dead persons, and above all in the phrase "from the dead" as the fixed idiom for resurrection.
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- dead in a figurative sense: spiritually lifeless or cut off from God, or lacking any active power to produce results.
- thnēskōθνῄσκωto be dead: to have died already, so that death is now an accomplished fact.
- rapahרְפָאִיםthe shades: the company of the dead who go on existing in the world below, stripped of the strength and standing they had in life
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