θάνατος thanatos

Greek word for “death” · Strong’s G2288 · used 120 times in 106 verses

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Meaning

θάνατος, -ου, ὁ (θνήσκω);

How it is translated

Glosses given for thanatos in context, with how often each is used:

• death 113
• death? 1
• death is 1
• deaths 1
• unto death 1
• his death 1
• plague 1
• fatal 1

Where it is used

Also in 3 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Romans 6 (7), Romans 5 (5), 1 Corinthians 15 (5), Romans 7 (4), Romans 8 (3), Philippians 2 (3), Hebrews 2 (3), Revelation 2 (3), Revelation 20 (3), Matthew 26 (2)

Forms

• θανάτου 53
• θάνατον 25
• θάνατος 24
• θανάτῳ 15
• θάνατε 2
• θανάτοις 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with thanatos more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ζωή zōē “life” 19
• ἁμαρτία hamartia “sin” 12
• ἄξιος axios “worthy” 6
• γεύω geuō “to taste” 5
• παραδίδωμι paradidōmi “to deliver” 7
• εὑρίσκω ehuriskō “to find/meet” 7
• πράσσω prassō “to do/require” 5
• ᾍδης Hadēs “hell” 4
• ἀποθνήσκω apothnēskō “to die” 6
• μέλλω mellō “to ensue” 6
• νεκρός nekros “dead” 6
• σάρξ sarx “flesh” 6

Key verses

The verses using thanatos that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Romans 6:21 — What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
• Romans 6:23 — For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• 2 Corinthians 11:23 — Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
• Philippians 1:20 — According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be…
• Hebrews 2:14 — Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that…
• Hebrews 5:7 — Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and…
• Hebrews 9:15 — And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first…
• Revelation 1:18 — I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
• Revelation 2:10 — Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation…
• Revelation 2:23 — And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of…
• Revelation 12:11 — And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
• Revelation 21:8 — But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.