joaniemarie posted...
This is from Bible Hub...sorry, I am not that good with Greek(getting 'Greek for the rest of us' by William Mounce for Christmas, and hope to get a better grasp of it)...
Strong's Concordance
nekros: dead
Original Word: νεκρός, ά, όν
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: nekros
Phonetic Spelling: (nek-ros')
Short Definition: dead,
a corpse
Definition: (a) adj: dead,
lifeless, subject to death, mortal, (b) noun:
a dead body, a corpse.HELPS Word-studies
3498 nekrós (an adjective, derived from
nekys, "a corpse, a dead body") – dead; literally, "what lacks life"; dead; (figuratively) not able to respond to impulses, or perform functions ("unable, ineffective, dead, powerless,"
L & N, 1, 74.28); unresponsive to life-giving influences (opportunities); inoperative to the things of God.
3498 /nekrós ("corpse-like") is used as a noun in certain contexts ("the dead"), especially when accompanied by the Greek definite article. The phrase,
ek nekron ("from the dead"),
lacks the Greek article to give the sense "from what is of death."
[/SIZE]'Dead' in Ephesians 2:3 means a literally dead corpse. As lost, unregenerate folk, that's what we were, dead inwardly, like a corpse floating like a long in a pond. That's why the analogy of tossing a flotation device to the lost is wrong. God doesn't toss a flotation device to us in hopes we will grab it and He can then drag us to shore. We can't reach out for it because we are floating in the water, dead, and not drowning. He goes out and brings us back to the shore and brings us to life, all of His doing.
And you were dead(nekros) in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),[Ephesians 2:1-5]
While we were dead, it was He who MADE us alive. It's 100% Him, 0% us.
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