Greek verb · G2348
θνήσκω
thneskothnay'-sko
to die/be dead
9 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: thnḗskō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2348is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2348
to die (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: be dead, die.
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
thnesko is rendered "to die/be dead". It stands 9 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 2:20“Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the Child’s life are now dead.”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
“Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the Child’s life are now dead.”
Matthew 2:20τεθνήκασιν
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
- having died3
- Has died2
- having been dead1
- He has died1
- they have died1
- to have died1
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.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- τέθνηκεν3
- τεθνηκὼς2
- τεθνήκασιν1
- τεθνηκέναι1
- τεθνηκότα1
- τεθνηκότος1
The grammar of each form
- verb · perfect active, indicative · 3rd person singular3V-RAI-3S
- verb · perfect active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2V-RAP-NSM
- verb · perfect active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-RAI-3P
- verb · perfect active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-RAN
- verb · perfect active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singular1V-RAP-ASM
- verb · perfect active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular1V-RAP-GSM
Matthew
one use
“Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the Child’s life are now dead.”
- τεθνήκασινtethnekasinverb · perfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they have died
Mark
one use
Pilate was surprised to hear that Jesus was already dead, so he summoned the centurion to ask if this was so.
- τέθνηκενtethnekenverb · perfect active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He has died
Luke
two uses
As He approached the town gate, He saw a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.
- τεθνηκὼςtethnekosverb · perfect active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having died
While He was still speaking, someone arrived from the house of the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” he told Jairus. “Do not bother the Teacher anymore.”
- τέθνηκενtethnekenverb · perfect active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: Has died
John
two uses
The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.
- τεθνηκὼςtethnekosverb · perfect active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having died
But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.
- τεθνηκόταtethnekotaverb · perfect active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: having been dead
Acts
two uses
Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.
- τεθνηκέναιtethnekenaiverb · perfect active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to have died
They only had some contentions with him regarding their own religion and a certain Jesus who had died, but whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
- τεθνηκότοςtethnekotosverb · perfect active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: having died
1 Timothy
one use
But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.
- τέθνηκενtethnekenverb · perfect active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has died
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.