| Strong's Number: 2288 | encodedOriginalWord |
| Original Word | Word Origin | | | θάνατος
| | from (2348) | | Transliterated Word | Phonetic Spelling | | | thanatos | | than'-at-os
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| | Parts of Speech | TDNT | | | Noun Masculine | | 3:7,312 | | Definition | | |
- the death of the body
- that separation (whether natural or violent) of the soul and the body by which the life on earth is ended
- with the implied idea of future misery in hell
- the power of death
- 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
- metaph., the loss of that life which alone is worthy of the name,
- the misery of the soul arising from sin, which begins on earth but lasts and increases after the death of the body in hell
- the miserable state of the wicked dead in hell
- 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 | | KJV | NAS | | | | | |
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