θνῄσκω
thnēskō
“to die/be dead”
Definition
to die (literally or figuratively)
a strengthened form of a simpler primary (which is used for it only in certain tenses);
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
G:V
Greek Verb
Occurrences
θνῄσκω appears 11 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.
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.
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.
But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.
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.”
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