Quick Definition
νέκρωσις, εως, ἡ n.f. putting to death, lifeless condition
Strong's Definition
from 3499; decease; figuratively, impotency
KJV Usage: deadness, dying
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -εως | νεκρόω
23.99 · Physiological Processes and States · Live, Die
to die, death the process of dying In a number of languages clear distinctions are made in the use of terms for dying on the basis of the manner or circumstances of death. For example, one term may refer to death primarily as the result of old age, while another term may refer to death caused by sickness, and still other terms may be used for death caused by violence. Careful distinctions must be used in determining the choice of terms based on particular contexts.
This first clause of 2CO 4:10 is highly elliptical, for it evidently refers to the fact that Paul was constantly in danger of dying in the same manner in which Jesus died, that is to say, by violence. One may render 2CO 4:10 as ‘at all times we live in the constant threat of being killed as Jesus was.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
νέκρωσις, -ews, 7, (veKpow) ; 1. prop. a putting to death (Vulg. mortificatio in 2 Co. iv. 10), killing. 2. i. 4: τὸ νεκροῦσθαι, [the being put to death], with τοῦ Ἰησοῦ added, i. 6. the (protracted) death [A. V. the dying] which Jesus underwent in God’s service [on the gen. cf. W. 189 (178) noie], Paul so styles the marks of perpetual trials, misfortunes, hardships attended with peril of death, evident in his body [ef. Meyer], 2 Co. iv. 10. 3. i. q. τὸ νενεκρωμένον εἶναι, the dead state [A. V. deadness], utter sluggishness, (of bodily members and organs, Galen): Ro. iv. 19.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
νέκρωσις nekrōsis 2x
pr. a putting to death; dying, abandonment to death, 2 Cor. 4:10; deadness, impotency, Rom. 4:19*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† νέκρωσις, -εως, ἡ
(< νεκρόω),
a putting to death.
a state of death, death: Ro 4:19, II Co 4:10 (v. Deiss., LAE, 94).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
νέκρωσις. The use of this word in 2 Cor 4} may be illustrated from Photius zb/iotheca, p. 513°°, cited by Deissmann (2.44, p- 96 n.1) from the Zhesaurus Graecaz Linguae —ot yap KOKKOL μετὰ τὴν ἐκ σήψεως νέκρωσιν Kal φθορὰν ἀναζῶσι, «for the seeds come to life again after death and destruction by decay.”’ See also Vett. Val. p. 538 τὰ ἐκτρώματα γίνονται Kal δυστοκίαι καὶ νεκρώσεις. In Mk 3° D νέκρωσις is substituted for πώρωσις. veounvia. For this uncontracted form (Ionic), which is preferred by WH in Col 215, we have no evidence earlier than ii/A.D., e.g. , VEOTNS P Tebt II. 318% (A.D. 166) μηνὶ Tldxov veopnvia, “on the first of the month Pachon.”” P Goodsp Cairo 3051.9 (a.p. 191-2) ἐπὶ τῆς νεομ(ηνίας), P Leid W'*-4 (ii/iii a.p.) ταῖς τῶν θεῶν αὐϑεντικαῖς νεομηνίαις, BGU IV. 1021? (iii/a.p.) ἀπὸ τῆς οὔσης veounvias τοῦ ὄντος μηνὸς ᾿Εἰπείφ: cf. Lob. Phryn. p. 148 ““Νεομηνία non contractis primoribus syllabis perrarum est etiam in vulgari Graecitate.” It is doubtful, therefore, whether it should be read in the NT passage, especially in view of the occurrence of νουμηνία in most books of the LXX (Thackeray Gy. i. p. 98), and regularly in the Ptolemaic papyri and the inscrr., e.g. P Petr II 4(2)® (B.C. 255-4) ἕως τῆς νουμηνίας, BGU IV. 1053 30 (B.c. 13) ἐν μησὶν t ἀπὸ νουμηνίας, Sy// 139 (= 3 284)8 (c. B.C. 322) στεφανωθήσεται (6 ἀνδριὰς) ἀεὶ ταῖς νουμηνίαις καὶ ταῖς ἄλλαις ἑορταῖς, Predsigke 1057 ἸΠέταλος. . . παρεγενέθη πρὸς τὸν Σάραπιν νουμηνίᾳ. Souter draws our attention to the occurrence of 22enza in good Lat. MSS.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
νέκρωσις (nekrōsis) — death. νέκρ-ωσις, εως, ἡ, mortification, [NT+2nd c.AD+]
II. death, τὴν ν. τοῦ Ἰησοῦ ἐν τῷ σώματι περιφέροντες [NT]