Genesis 20:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.
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Revelation 20:13
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.
νεκρός
nekrós · nek-ros'
132 times translated as this KJV form132 total Strong's occurrences
dead (literally or figuratively; also as noun)
Strong's KJV usage: :--dead.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 8:22Strong's last: Revelation 20:13
Open full G3498 profile →מוּת
mûwth · mooth
130 times translated as this KJV form832 total Strong's occurrences
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
Strong's KJV usage: × at all, × crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), × must needs, slay, × surely, × very suddenly, × in (no) wise.
Strong's first: Genesis 23:3Strong's last: Ezekiel 44:25
Open full H4191 profile →ἀποθνήσκω
apothnḗskō · ap-oth-nace'-ko
29 times translated as this KJV form122 total Strong's occurrences
to die off (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be dead, death, die, lie a-dying, be slain (X with).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 9:24Strong's last: Jude 1:12
Open full G599 profile →θνήσκω
thnḗskō · thnay'-sko
11 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
to die (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be dead, die.
Strong's first: Matthew 2:20Strong's last: 1 Timothy 5:6
Open full G2348 profile →מָוֶת
mâveth · maw'-veth
8 times translated as this KJV form159 total Strong's occurrences
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
Strong's KJV usage: (be) dead(-ly), death, die(-d).
Strong's first: Leviticus 11:31Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 10:1
Open full H4194 profile →רָפָא
râphâʼ · raw-faw'
7 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only)
Strong's KJV usage: dead, deceased.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 26:5Strong's last: Isaiah 26:19
Open full H7496 profile →נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh · neh'-fesh
5 times translated as this KJV form738 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Strong's KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, × dead(-ly), desire, × (dis-) contented, × fish, ghost, greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, × jeopardy of) life (× in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, slay, soul, tablet, they, thing, (× she) will, × would have it.
Strong's first: Leviticus 19:28Strong's last: Numbers 6:11
Open full H5315 profile →τελευτάω
teleutáō · tel-yoo-tah'-o
3 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
to finish life (by implication, of G979), i.e. expire (demise)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be dead, decease, die.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 2:19Strong's last: Acts 2:29
Open full G5053 profile →νεκρόω
nekróō · nek-ro'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to deaden, i.e. (figuratively) to subdue
Strong's KJV usage: :--be dead, mortify.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Romans 4:19Strong's last: Hebrews 11:12
Open full G3499 profile →ἀπογενόμενος
apogenómenos · ap-og-en-om'-en-os
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
absent, i.e. deceased (figuratively, renounced)
Strong's KJV usage: :--being dead.
Strong's first: 1 Peter 2:24Strong's last: 1 Peter 2:24
Open full G581 profile →ἡμιθανής
hēmithanḗs · hay-mee-than-ace'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
half dead, i.e. entirely exhausted
Strong's KJV usage: :--half dead.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 10:30Strong's last: Luke 10:30
Open full G2253 profile →θανατόω
thanatóō · than-at-o'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: :--become dead, (cause to be) put to death, kill, mortify.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Romans 7:4Strong's last: Romans 7:4
Open full G2289 profile →κοιμάω
koimáō · koy-mah'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
to put to sleep, i.e. (passively or reflexively) to slumber; figuratively, to decease
Strong's KJV usage: :--(be a-, fall a-, fall on) sleep, be dead.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 7:39Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 7:39
Open full G2837 profile →גָּוַע
gâvaʻ · gaw-vah'
1 times translated as this KJV form24 total Strong's occurrences
to breathe out, i.e. (by implication) expire
Strong's KJV usage: die, be dead, give up the ghost, perish.
Strong's first: Numbers 20:29Strong's last: Numbers 20:29
Open full H1478 profile →נָא
nâʼ · naw
1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
'I pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
Strong's KJV usage: I beseech (pray) thee (you), go to, now, oh.
Strong's first: Numbers 12:12Strong's last: Numbers 12:12
Open full H4994 profile →שָׁדַד
shâdad · shaw-dad'
1 times translated as this KJV form57 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage
Strong's KJV usage: dead, destroy(-er), oppress, robber, spoil(-er), × utterly, (lay) waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Judges 5:27Strong's last: Judges 5:27
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H4191
When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:
H4191
And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
H4191
Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
H4191
And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
H4191
And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
H4191
And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
H4191
And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?
H4191
And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?
H4191
But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
H4191
But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
H4191
But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
H4191
Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.
H4191
But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
H4191
And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
H4191
Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead.
H4191
Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead.
H4191
And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
H4191
And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
H4191
And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
H4191
Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
H4191
And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king's son is dead.
H4191
And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?
H4194
For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
H4191
And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
H4191
And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
English meaning and historical usage.
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
dead
DEAD,
1. Deprived or destitute of life; that state of a being, animal or vegetable, in which the organs of motion and life have ceased to perform their functions, and have become incapable of performing them, or of being restored to a state of activity.
The men are dead who sought thy life. Exodus 4:19.
It is sometimes followed by of before the cause of death; as, dead of hunger, or of a fever.
2. Having never had life, or having been deprived of vital action before birth; as, the child was born dead
3. Without life; inanimate.
All, all but truth, drops dead-born from the press.
4. Without vegetable life; as a dead tree.
5. Imitating death; deep or sound; as a dead sleep.
6. Perfectly still; motionless as death; as a dead calm; a dead weight.
7. Empty; vacant; not enlivened by variety; as a dead void space; a dead plain.
We say also, a dead level, for a perfectly level surface.
8. Unemployed; useless; unprofitable. A man's faculties may lie dead or his goods remain dead on his hands. So dead capital or stock is that which produces no profit.
9. Dull; inactive; as a dead sale of commodities.
10. Dull; gloomy; still; not enlivened; as a dead winter; a dead season.
11. Still; deep; obscure; as the dead darkness of the night.
12. Dull; not lively; not resembling life; as the dead coloring of a piece; a dead eye.
13. Dull; heavy; as a dead sound.
14. Dull; frigid; lifeless; cold; not animated; not affecting; used of prayer.
15. Tasteless; vapid; spiritless; used of liquors.
16. Uninhabited; as dead walls.
17. Dull; without natural force or efficacy; not lively or brisk; as a dead fire.
18. In a state of spiritual death; void of grace; lying under the power of sin.
19. Impotent; unable to procreate.
20. Decayed in grace.
Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead Revelation 3:1.
21. Not proceeding from spiritual life; not producing good works; as, faith without works is dead James 2:17.
22. Proceeding from corrupt nature, not from spiritual life or a gracious principle; as dead works. Hebrews 9:14.
23. In law, cut off from the rights of a citizen:deprived of power of enjoying the rights of property; as one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead
DEAD language, a language which is no longer spoken or in common use by a people, and known only in writings; as the Hebrew, Greek and Latin.
DEAD rising or rising line, the parts of a ship's floor or bottom throughout her length, where the floor timber is terminated on the lower futtock.
DEAD, noun ded.
1. The dead signifies dead men.
Ye shall not make cuttings for the dead Leviticus 19:28.
2. The state of the dead; or death.
This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead Matthew 14:2.
DEAD, noun ded. The time when there is a remarkable stillness or gloom; depth; as in the midst of winter or of night, are familiar expressions.
DEAD, verb intransitive ded. To lose life or force.
DEAD, verb transitive ded. To deprive of life, force or vigor.
DEAD'-DOING, adjective Destructive; killing.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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