nekrov" nekrov", nekrav, nekrovn (akin to the Latin neco, nex (from a root signifying `to disappear' etc.; cf. Curtius, sec. 93; Fick i., p. 123; Vanicek, p. 422f)), the Septuagint chiefly for tme; dead, i. e.:1. properly, a. one that has breathed his last, lifeless: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ejpiv nekroi'", if men are dead (where death has occurred (see ejpiv, Buttmann, 2 a. e., p. 233a at the end)), ; ejgeivrein nekrouv", ; ; ; hyperbolically and proleptically equivalent to as if already dead, sure to die, destined inevitably to die: tov sw'ma, (tov sw'ma and tov swmavtion fuvsei nekrovn, Epictetus diss. 3, 10, 15 and 3, 22, 41; in which sense Luther called the human body, although alive, einen alten Madensack (cf. Shakespeare's "thou worms-meat!")); said of the body of a dead man (so in Homer often; for hl;ben? a corpse ; ; ; ; ): metav tw'n nekrw'n, among the dead, i. e. the buried, ; qavyai touv" nekrouv", ; ; ojsteva nekrw'n, ; of the corpse of a murdered man, ai|ma wJ" nekrou', (for gWrh;, ; for ll;j;,thrust through, slain, ; ). b. deceased, departed, one whose soul is in Hades: ; ; nekrov" h\n, was like one dead, as good as dead, ,; plural, ; ; ejn Cristw'/, dead Christians (see ejn, I. 6 b., p. 211b), ; very often oiJ nekroiv and nekroiv (without the article; see Winer's Grammar, p. 123 (117) and cf. Buttmann, 89 (78) note) are used of the assembly of the dead (see ajnavstasi", 2 and ejgeivrw, 2): ; ,f; tiv" ajpov tw'n nekrw'n, one (returning) from the dead, the world of spirits, ; ejk nekrw'n, from the dead, occurs times too many to count (see ajnavstasi", ajnivsthmi, ejgeriw): ajnavgein tina ejk nekrw'n, ; ; zwhv ejk nekrw'n, life springing forth from death, i. e. the return of the dead to life (see ejk, I. 5), ; prwtovtoko" ejk tw'n nekrw'n who was the first that returned to life from among the dead, ; also prwtovtoko" tw'n nekrw'n ; zowpoivein touv" nekrouv" ; ejgeivrein tina ajpov tw'n nekrw'n, to rouse one to quit (the assembly of) the dead, ; ; ; krivnein zw'nta" kaiv nekrouv", ; ; krithv" zwvntwn kaiv nekrw'n, ; nekrw'n kaiv zwvntwn kurieuvein