Greek verb · G2289
θανατόω
thanatoothan-at-o'-o
to kill
11 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: thanatóō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2289is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2289
from to kill
The King James renders it: become dead, (cause to be) put to death, kill, mortify.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
thanatoo is rendered "to kill". It stands 11 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Three of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 10:21Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
Matthew 10:21θανατώσουσιν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- will put to death2
- being killed1
- having been put to death1
- put to death1
- they may put to death1
- they might put to death1
- they will put to death1
- we face death1
- were put to death1
- you put to death1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| θάνατος | thanatos | death | Uses120 |
| θανατήφορος | thanatephoros | deadly | Uses1 |
| θανάσιμος | thanasimos | deadly | Usesnot recorded |
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- θανατώσουσιν3
- θανατῶσαι2
- ἐθανατώθητε1
- θανατούμεθα1
- θανατούμενοι1
- θανατοῦτε1
- θανατωθεὶς1
- θανατώσωσιν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · future active, indicative · 3rd person plural3V-FAI-3P
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)2V-AAN
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person plural1V-AAS-3P
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-API-2P
- verb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-APP-NSM
- verb · present active, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-PAI-2P
- verb · present passive, indicative · 1st person plural1V-PPI-1P
- verb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-PPP-NPM
Matthew
three uses
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
- θανατώσουσινthanatosousinverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: will put to death
Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
- θανατώσωσινthanatososinverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person pluraltagged: they may put to death
When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put Him to death.
- θανατῶσαιthanatosaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: they might put to death
Mark
two uses
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
- θανατώσουσινthanatosousinverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: will put to death
Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking testimony against Jesus to put Him to death, but they did not find any.
- θανατῶσαιthanatosaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: put to death
Luke
one use
You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.
- θανατώσουσινthanatosousinverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they will put to death
Romans
three uses
Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
- ἐθανατώθητεethanatotheteverb · aorist passive, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: were put to death
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
- θανατοῦτεthanatouteverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: you put to death
As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
- θανατούμεθαthanatoumethaverb · present passive, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: we face death
2 Corinthians
one use
as unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;
- θανατούμενοιthanatoumenoiverb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: being killed
1 Peter
one use
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
- θανατωθεὶςthanatotheisverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having been put to death
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.