- Transliteration: Nekros

- Phonetic: nek-ros'

- Definition:

1. properly

a. one that has breathed his last, lifeless

b. deceased, departed, one whose soul is in heaven or hell

c. destitute of life, without life, inanimate

2. metaph.

a. spiritually dead

1. destitute of a life that recognises and is devoted to God, because given up to trespasses and sins

2. inactive as respects doing right

b. destitute of force or power, inactive, inoperative

- Origin: from an apparently primary nekus (a corpse)

- TDNT entry: 18:52,6

- Part(s) of speech: Adjective

- Strong's: From an apparently primary word νέκυς nekus (a corpse); dead (literally or figuratively; also as noun): - dead.