G2288 – thanatos – θάνατος – a death

Strong’s ID:
G2288
Greek Word:
θάνατος
Transliteration:
thanatos
Pronunciation:
than’-at-os
Part of Speech:
noun masculine
Etymology:
from (properly, an adjective used as a noun)
Usage Count:
119
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Find “thanatos” in the Bible (New Testament)

Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon

a death

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Strong’s Greek Lexicon

from ; (properly, an adjective used as a noun) death (literally or figuratively):—X deadly, (be…) death.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) the death of the body
1a) that separation (whether natural or violent) of the soul and the body by which the life on earth is ended
1b) with the implied idea of future misery in hell
1b1) the power of death
1c) since the nether world, the abode of the dead, was conceived as being very dark, it is equivalent to the region of thickest darkness, i.e. figuratively, a region enveloped in the darkness of ignorance and sin
2) metaphorically, the loss of that life which alone is worthy of the name
2a) the misery of the soul arising from sin, which begins on earth but lasts and increases after the death of the body in hell
3) the miserable state of the wicked dead in hell
4) in the widest sense, death comprising all the miseries arising from sin, as well physical death as the loss of a life consecrated to God and blessed in him on earth, to be followed by wretchedness in hell

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.