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."