Quick Definition
τελευτή, ῆς, ἡ n.f. end of life, death
Strong's Definition
decease
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ῆς | τελέω
23.102 · Physiological Processes and States · Live, Die
death (figurative extension of meaning of τελευτή ‘end,’ not occurring in the NT) the end of one’s life, as a euphemistic expression for death
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
τελευτή, -ῆς, ἡ, (τελέω), End [see τέλος, 1 a. init.]; the end of life, decease, death: Mt. ii. 15 (and often in Grk. writ. fr. Pind. and Thue. down; Sept. for nin; with βιότοιο added, Hom. Il. 7, 104; τοῦ βίου, Hdt. 1, 80, and often in Attic writ.).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
τελευτή teleutē 1x
a finishing, end; hence, end of life, death, decease, Mt. 2:15*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
τελευτή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< τελέω), [in LXX chiefly for מָוֶת, מוּת;]
a finishing.
an end: τ. βίου (Hdt., al.): also without βίου, the end of life, death (Hdt., Plat., al.): Mt 2:15.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
τελευτή (B.C. 222) ὃ ἀνήρ μου τετελεύτηκεν, P Fay 29° (notice of death—a.b. 37) ὁ ἀδ[ εἸλιφὸς) Tleveotpis . . . τετελεύτηκεν ἐν τῷ Μεσ[ο]ρὴ μην] τοῦ πρώτο[υ]Ἱ (ἔτους) Γαίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ, ‘‘my brother Peneouris has died in the month Mesore of the first year of Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus,”’ cf.1° ὅπως ταγῆι τούτου] ὄν[ο]μα ἐν τῆι τῶν [τετ]ελευτηκότων τάξ[ει κατὰ] τὸ ἔ[θ]7ος, ‘in order that his name may according to custom be placed in the list of deceased persons,” P Oxy III. 47579 (a.p. 182) ἔπεσεν καὶ ἐτελε[ὑτησεν, 26. VI. 928% (ii/ill A.D.) Ζωπύρου τελευτήσαντος, ‘‘now that Zopyrus is dead,” P Strass I. 731% (iii/A.D.) 6 μικρὸς Mipos ἐτελεύτησεν, and from the inscrr. Syll 8951 ἐτελεύτησα ἐμβὰς (e)is ἔτη πέντε, and 24. 908 (=3 505)! (c. B.C. 227) τῶν κατὰ τὸν σεισμὸν τελευτασάντων. The mummy-ticket Preds?gke 3931° (A.D. 123) shows the impf. ἐτελεύτα, In the florzlegzum PSI IL. 120% (iv/A.D. ?) it is suggested that there is no cause to grieve over those who die (τοῖς ἀποθνησκ[ο])ῦσιν), unless it be over those who end their lives in a disgraceful manner (ξπὶ τοῖς αἰσχρῶς τελευτῶσι).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
τελευτή (teleutē) — death. τελευτ-ή, ἡ, (τελέω) completion, accomplishment, τελευτὴν ποιῆσαι [γάμου] accomplish, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; τ. νόστου[Refs 8th c.BC+]
2. event, issue, δεῖξεν πᾶσαν τ. πράγματος [Refs 6th c.BC+]; γάμου πικραὶ τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. termination, end, οὐδέ τις ἦν ἔριδος λύσις οὐδὲ τ. [Refs 8th c.BC+]
4. especially βιότοιο τ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.104, 16.787; βίου 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.30, 31, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.24; τ. τοῦ βίου τελεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 79; ἐπὶ τελευτῇ τοῦ βίου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 516a.
4. b frequently without βίου, the end of life, death, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τελευτῆς λαχεῖν, τυχεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; periphrastic, θανάτοιο τ. the end that is death, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
5. with Preps., in adverb sense, ἐς τελευτήν at the end, at last, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
II. end, extremity of anything, as of limbs, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. end, close of a sentence, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of a play, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of a word, [Refs 1st c.AD+]