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The New Testament Greek Lexicon

 Strong's Number:  2288 encodedOriginalWord
Original WordWord Origin
 θάνατος  from (2348)
Transliterated WordPhonetic Spelling
 thanatos than'-at-os
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Parts of SpeechTDNT
 Noun Masculine 3:7,312
 Definition
 
  1. the death of the body
    1. that separation (whether natural or violent) of the soul and the body by which the life on earth is ended
    2. with the implied idea of future misery in hell
      1. the power of death
    3. since the nether world, the abode of the dead, was conceived as being very dark, it is equivalent to the region of thickest darkness i.e. figuratively, a region enveloped in the darkness of ignorance and sin
  2. metaph., the loss of that life which alone is worthy of the name,
    1. the misery of the soul arising from sin, which begins on earth but lasts and increases after the death of the body in hell
  3. the miserable state of the wicked dead in hell
  4. in the widest sense, death comprising all the miseries arising from sin, as well physical death as the loss of a life consecrated to God and blessed in him on earth, to be followed by wretchedness in hell
 Translated Words
 KJV (119) - deadly, 2; death, 117;

NAS (118) - danger of death, 1; death, 112; fatal, 2; pestilence, 3;

 Verse Count
KJVNAS
 
Matthew7
Mark6
Luke7
John8
Acts8
Romans20
1 Corinthians7
2 Corinthians8
Philippians5
Colossians1
2 Timothy1
Hebrews8
James2
1 John3
Revelation15
 
Matthew7
Mark6
Luke7
John8
Acts7
Romans20
1 Corinthians7
2 Corinthians8
Philippians5
Colossians1
2 Timothy1
Hebrews8
James2
1 John3
Revelation15
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Abbreviations Legend:
TDNT - Theological Dictionary of the New Testament;

Copyright Statement
The New Testament Greek Lexicon based on Thayer's and Smith's Bible Dictionary plus others; this is keyed to the large Kittel and the "Theological Dictionary of the New Testament." These files are public domain.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries. Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved. http://www.lockman.org/.

Bibliography Information
Thayer and Smith. "Greek Lexicon entry for Thanatos". "The New Testament Greek Lexicon".
<http://www.searchgodsword.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=2288>.  

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