To put to death
νεκρόωStrong’s G3499nekroō
Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament
In short
Nekroō is the Greek word usually translated “expired”, “do put to death” and “as good as dead”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.
“And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb:”
Meaning
Usually translated “expired”, “do put to death” and “as good as dead”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- expired 1
- do put to death 1
- as good as dead 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Romans 1
- Colossians 1
- Hebrews 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Colossians 3:5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
- Hebrews 11:12Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
Greek dictionary
νεκρόω nekroō · to put to death
νεκρόω, ῶ (νεκρός), to make dead, put to death; pass., to be dead: hyperbolically, of impotent age, Heb.11:12; σῶμα, Rom.4:19. Trop., of carnal impulses, τὰ μέλη, Col.3:5.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “expire” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EXPI'RE, verb transitive
[Latin expiro, for exspiro; ex and spiro, to breathe.]
- To breathe out; to throw out the breath from the lungs; opposed to inspire.
- To exhale; to emit in minute particles, as a fluid or volatile matter.
- To conclude.
All definitions and other forms of “expire”
EXPI'RE, verb intransitive
To emit the last breath, as an animal; to die; to breathe the last.
- To perish; to end; to fail or be destroyed; to come to nothing; to be frustrated.
- To fly out; to be thrown out with force. [Unusual.]
- To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to close or conclude, as a given period.“When forty years had expired” Acts 7:30
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.