Nékrōsis — G3500

Definition

feminine noun

decease; figuratively, impotency

1. properly, a putting to death , killing
2. equivalent to τό νεκρουσθαι (the being put to death), with τοῦ Ἰησοῦ added, i. e. the (protracted) death (A. V. the dying) which Jesus underwent in God's service , Paul so styles the marks of perpetual trials, misfortunes, hardships attended with peril of death, evident in his body
3. equivalent to τό νενεκρωμένον εἶναι, the dead state (A. V. deadness), utter sluggishness (of bodily members and organs, Galen)

Usually translated as

deadness, dying

Origin

from G3499

• nekróō (G3499)

Occurrences

Nékrōsis occurs 2 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Romans (1), 2 Corinthians (1)

• Romans 4:19 — And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness (νέκρωσιν) of Sara’s womb:
• 2 Corinthians 4:10 — Always bearing about in the body the dying (νέκρωσιν) of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.