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Strong's G2288 θάνατος (thanatos)

Thanatos means “death” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2288 — chagav (“cleft”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2288
Language Greek
Linked Usages 432
Books 58

Strong's G2288 Quick Answer

Strong's G2288 θανάτου is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. thanatos (than'-at-os) n. 1. death {literally or figuratively; properly, an adjective used as a noun} It has 432 linked Bible usages across 58 books. Visible English usage signals include death, lord, die, said, and let. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
thanatos (than'-at-os) n. 1. death {literally or figuratively; properly, an adjective used as a noun}
Usage
432 linked usages
Books
58 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
death, lord, die, said, and let

Meaning and Definition

thanatos (than'-at-os) n. 1. death {literally or figuratively; properly, an adjective used as a noun} [from G2348] KJV: X deadly, (be...) death Root(s): G2348

Original Word
θανάτου
Morphology
N-GSM

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2288. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

death

Usage: θάνατος, -ου, ὁ (θνήσκω), [in LXX chiefly for מָוֶת ,מוּת, sometimes דֶּבֶר ;] death; __1. of the death of the body, whether natural or violent: Jhn.11:13, Php.2:27, Heb.7:23, al; opposite to ζωή, Rom.8:38, Php.1:20; of the death of Christ, Rom.5:10, Php.3:10, Heb.2:9; ῥυέσθαι (σώζειν) ἐκ θ., 2Co.1:10, Heb.5:7; περίλυπος ἕως θανάτου, Mat.26:38, Mrk.14:34; μέχρι (ἄχρι), Php.2:8, Rev.2:10; πληγὴ θανάτου, a deadly wound. Rev.13:3; ἰδεῖν θάνατον, Luk.2:26, Heb.11:5; γεύεσθαι θανάτου, Mrk.9:1; ἔνοχος θανάτου, Mrk.14:64;

θανάτῳ τελευτᾶν ( Exo.21:17, מוּת יוּמָת), Mrk.7:10; death personified, Rom.6:9, 1Co.15:26, Rev.21:4; pl., of deadly perils, 2Co.11:23. __2. Of spiritual death: Jhn.5:24 8:51, Rom.7:10, Jas.1:15, 5:20, 1Jn.3:14 5:16, al.; of eternal death, Rom.1:32 7:5, al.; ὁ θ. ὁ δεύτερος, Rev.2:11 21:8 (cf. Cremer, 283ff.; DB, iii, 114ff.; DCG, i, 791f.). (AS)

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English Usage Signals

Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.

death lord die said let surely upon thee man should king shalt

How Strong's G2288 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 235 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2288 (θανάτου) appears 338 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2288 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2288 in the New Testament

106 indexed usages in New Testament.

Strong's G2288 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

235 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 2:17 Septuagint / Brenton

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—of it ye shall not eat, but in whatsoever day ye eat of it, ye shall surely die.

Genesis 3:4 Septuagint / Brenton

And the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die.

Genesis 21:16 Septuagint / Brenton

And she departed and sat down opposite him at a distance, as it were a bowshot, for she said, Surely I cannot see the death of my child: and she sat opposite him, and the child cried aloud and wept.

Strong's G2288 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

90 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Strong's G2288 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2288.

Genesis 2:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—of it ye shall not eat, but in whatsoever day ye eat of it, ye shall surely die.
Genesis 3:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die.
Genesis 21:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she departed and sat down opposite him at a distance, as it were a bowshot, for she said, Surely I cannot see the death of my child: and she sat opposite him, and the child cried aloud and wept.
Genesis 26:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, Every man that touches this man and his wife shall be liable to death.
Exodus 5:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they say to him, The God of the Hebrews has called us to him: we will go therefore a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest at any time death or slaughter happen to us.
Exodus 9:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
behold, the hand of the Lord shall be upon thy cattle in the fields, both on the horses, and on the asses, and on the camels and oxen and sheep, a very great mortality.
Exodus 9:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For now I will stretch forth my hand and smite thee and kill thy people, and thou shalt be consumed from off the earth.
Exodus 10:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
pardon therefore my sin yet this time, and pray to the Lord your God, and let him take away from me this death.
Exodus 19:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt separate the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves that ye go not up into the mountain, nor touch any part of it: everyone that touches the mountain shall surely die.
Exodus 21:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if any man smite another and he die, let him be certainly put to death.
Exodus 21:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Whoever smites his father or his mother, let him be certainly put to death.
Exodus 21:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He that reviles his father or his mother shall surely die.
Exodus 21:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Whosoever shall steal one of the children of Israel, and prevail over him and sell him, and he be found with him, let him certainly die.
Exodus 22:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every one that lies with a beast ye shall surely put to death.
Exodus 22:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He that sacrifices to any gods but to the Lord alone, shall be destroyed by death.
Exodus 31:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall keep the Sabbaths, because this is holy to the Lord for you; he that profanes it shall surely be put to death: every one who shall do a work on it, that soul shall be destroyed from the midst of his people.
Exodus 31:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Six days thou shalt do works, but the seventh day is the Sabbath, a holy rest to the Lord; everyone who shall do a work on the seventh day shall be put to death.
Leviticus 20:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt also say to the children of Israel, If there shall be any of the children of Israel, or of those who have become proselytes in Israel, who shall give of his seed to Molech, let him be surely put to death; the nation upon the land shall stone him with stones.
Leviticus 20:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every man who shall speak evil of his father or of his mother, let him die the death; has he spoken evil of his father or his mother? he shall be guilty.
Leviticus 20:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Whatever man shall commit adultery with the wife of a man, or whoever shall commit adultery with the wife of his neighbor, let them die the death, the adulterer and the adulteress.
Leviticus 20:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if anyone should lie with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness: let them both die the death, they are guilty.
Leviticus 20:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if anyone should lie with his daughter-in-law, let them both be put to death; for they have wrought impiety, they are guilty.
Leviticus 20:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whosoever shall lie with a beast, let him die the death; and ye shall kill the beast.
Leviticus 20:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whatever woman shall approach any beast, so as to have connection with it, ye shall kill the woman and the beast: let them die the death, they are guilty.
Leviticus 20:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And as for a man or woman whosoever of them shall have in them a divining spirit, or be an enchanter, let them both die the death: ye shall stone them with stones, they are guilty.
Leviticus 24:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he that names the name of the Lord, let him die the death: let all the congregation of Israel stone him with stones; whether he be a stranger or a native, let him die for naming the name of the Lord.
Leviticus 24:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whosoever shall smite a man and he die, let him die the death.
Leviticus 24:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Whosoever shall smite a man, and he shall die, let him die the death.
Leviticus 26:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will bring upon you a sword avenging the cause of my covenant, and ye shall flee for refuge to your cities; and I will send out death against you, and ye shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies.
Leviticus 27:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whatever shall be dedicated of men, shall not be ransomed, but shall be surely put to death.
Numbers 12:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let her not be as it were like death, as an abortion coming out of his mother’s womb, when the disease devours the half of the flesh.
Numbers 14:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will smite them with death, and destroy them; and I will make of thee and of thy father’s house a great nation, and much greater than this.
Numbers 15:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Let the man be by all means put to death: do ye all the congregation, stone him with stones.
Numbers 16:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If these men shall die according to the death of all men, if also their visitation shall be according to the visitation of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.
Numbers 26:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up them and Korah, when their assembly perished, when the fire devoured the two hundred and fifty, and they were made a sign.
Numbers 26:65 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the Lord said to them, They shall surely die in the wilderness; and there was not left even one of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Numbers 35:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if he should smite him with an iron instrument, and the man should die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.
Numbers 35:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if he should smite him with a stone thrown from his hand, whereby a man may die, and he thus die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.
Numbers 35:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if he should smite him with an instrument of wood from his hand, whereby he may die, and he thus die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.
Numbers 35:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
or if he have smitten him with his hand through anger, and the man should die, let the man that smote him be put to death by all means, he is a murderer: let the murderer by all means be put to death: the avenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meets him.
Numbers 35:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall not accept ransoms for life from a murderer who is worthy of death, for he shall be surely put to death.
Deuteronomy 19:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Lest the avenger of blood pursue after the slayer, because his heart is hot, and overtake him, if the way be too long, and slay him, though there is to this man no sentence of death, because he hated him not in time past.
Deuteronomy 21:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if there be sin in anyone, and the judgment of death be upon him, and he be put to death, and ye hang him on a tree:
Deuteronomy 22:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the damsel has not committed a sin worthy of death; as if a man should rise up against his neighbor, and slay him, so is this thing;
Deuteronomy 28:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord cause the pestilence to cleave to thee, until he shall have consumed thee off the land into which thou goest to inherit it.
Deuteronomy 30:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, I have set before thee this day life and death, good and evil.
Deuteronomy 30:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I call both heaven and earth to witness this day against you, I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: choose thou life, that thou and thy seed may live;
Deuteronomy 31:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, the days of thy death are at hand; call Joshua, and stand ye by the doors of the tabernacle of testimony, and I will give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went to the tabernacle of testimony, and stood by the doors of the tabernacle of testimony.
Deuteronomy 31:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For I know thy provocation, and thy stiff neck; for yet during my life with you at this day, ye have been provoking in your conduct toward God: how shall ye not also be so after my death?
Joshua 2:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and save alive the house of my father, my mother, and my brethren, and all my house, and all that they have, and ye shall rescue my soul from death.
Joshua 2:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the men said to her, Our life for yours even to death: and she said, When the Lord shall have delivered the city to you, ye shall deal mercifully and truly with me.
Judges 5:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The people Zebulun exposed their soul to death, And Naphtali came to the high places of their land.
Judges 13:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said to me, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bring forth a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat no unclean thing; for the child shall be holy to God from the womb until the day of his death.
Judges 13:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
Judges 15:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they spoke to him, saying, Nay, but we will only bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand, and will by no means slay thee: and they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him from that rock.
Judges 16:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Samson said, Let my life perish with the Philistines: and he bowed himself mightily; and the house fell upon the princes, and upon all the people that were in it: and the dead whom Samson slew in his death were more than those whom he slew in his life.
Judges 21:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel said, Who of all the tribes of Israel, went not up in the congregation to the Lord? for there was a great oath concerning those who went not up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
Ruth 1:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And wherever thou diest, I will die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if I leave thee, for death only shall divide between me and thee.
1 Kingdoms 1:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she vowed a vow to the Lord, saying, O Lord God of Sabaoth, if thou wilt indeed look upon the humiliation of thy handmaid, and remember me, and give to thy handmaid a man-child, then will I indeed dedicate him to thee till the day of his death; and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink, and no razor shall come upon his head.
1 Kingdoms 5:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon Ashdod, and he brought evil upon them, and it burst out upon them into the ships, and mice sprang up in the midst of their country, and there was a great and indiscriminate mortality in the city.
1 Kingdoms 5:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they send and gather the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it lodge in its place; and let it not slay us and our people.
1 Kingdoms 14:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For as the Lord lives who has saved Israel, if answer should be against my son Jonathan, he shall surely die. And there was no one that answered out of all the people.
1 Kingdoms 14:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Saul said to him, God do so to me, and more also, thou shalt surely die today.
1 Kingdoms 15:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Samuel said, Bring me Agag the king of Amalek: and Agag came to him trembling; and Agag said, Is death thus bitter?
1 Kingdoms 15:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Samuel did not see Saul again till the day of his death, for Samuel mourned after Saul, and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
1 Kingdoms 20:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David answered Jonathan, and said, Thy father knows surely that I have found grace in thy sight, and he said, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he refuse his consent: but as the Lord lives and thy soul lives, as I said, the space is filled up between me and death.
1 Kingdoms 20:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if indeed I continue to live, then shalt thou deal mercifully with me; and if I indeed die,
1 Kingdoms 20:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For so long as the son of Jesse lives upon the earth, thy kingdom shall not be established: now then send and take the young man, for he shall surely die.
1 Kingdoms 22:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And King Saul said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house.
2 Kingdoms 1:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Saul and Jonathan, the beloved and the beautiful, were not divided: Comely were they in their life, and in their death they were not divided: They were swifter than eagles, And they were stronger than lions.
2 Kingdoms 3:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king mourned over Abner, and said, Shall Abner die according to the death of Nabal?
2 Kingdoms 12:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David was greatly moved with anger against the man; and David said to Nathan, As the Lord lives, the man that did this thing shall surely die.
2 Kingdoms 12:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Only because thou hast given great occasion of provocation to the enemies of the Lord by this thing, thy son also that is born to thee shall surely die.
2 Kingdoms 14:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For we shall surely die, and be as water poured upon the earth, which shall not be gathered up, and God shall take the life, even as he devises to thrust forth from him his outcast.
2 Kingdoms 15:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Ittai answered the king and said, As the Lord lives and as my lord the king lives, in the place wheresoever my lord shall be, whether it be for death or life, there shall thy servant be.
2 Kingdoms 19:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king was troubled, and went to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and thus he said as he went, My son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom; would God I had died for thee, even I had died for thee, Absalom, my son, my son!
2 Kingdoms 19:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For all the house of my father were but as dead men before my lord the king; yet thou hast set thy servant among them that eat at thy table: and what right have I any longer even to cry to the king?
2 Kingdoms 20:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David went into his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and he put them in a place of custody, and maintained them, and went not in to them; and they were kept living as widows, till the day of their death.
2 Kingdoms 21:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, There is guilt upon Saul and his house because of his bloody murder, whereby he slew the Gibeonites.
2 Kingdoms 22:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the troubles of death compassed me, The floods of iniquity amazed me:
2 Kingdoms 22:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The pangs of death surrounded me, The agonies of death prevented me.
2 Kingdoms 24:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Gad went in to David, and told him, and said to him, Choose one of these things to befall thee, whether there shall come upon thee for three years famine in thy land; or that thou shouldest flee three months before thine enemies, and they should pursue thee; or that there should be for three days mortality in thy land. Now then decide, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
2 Kingdoms 24:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David said to Gad, On every side I am much straitened: let me fall now into the hands of the Lord, for his compassions are very many; and let me not fall into the hands of man.
2 Kingdoms 24:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So David chose for himself the mortality: and they were the days of wheat harvest; and the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from morning till noon, and the plague began among the people; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
3 Kingdoms 2:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king said to Abiathar the priest, Depart thou quickly to Anathoth to thy farm, for thou art worthy of death this day; but I will not slay thee, because thou hast borne the ark of the covenant of the Lord before my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all things wherein my father was afflicted.
3 Kingdoms 2:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.
3 Kingdoms 2:42 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good.
3 Kingdoms 3:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the woman whose the living child was, answered and spoke to the king (for her bowels yearned over her son), and she said, I pray thee, my lord, give her the child, and in nowise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor hers; divide it.
3 Kingdoms 3:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then the king answered and said, Give the child to her that said, Give it to her, and by no means slay it: she is its mother.
3 Kingdoms 8:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If there should be famine, if there should be death, because there should be blasting, locust, or if there be mildew, and if their enemy oppress them in anyone of their cities, with regard to every calamity, every trouble,
4 Kingdoms 1:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thus saith the Lord, The bed on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down from it, for thou shalt surely die. And Elijah went, and said so to them.
4 Kingdoms 1:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they said to him, A man came up to meet us, and said to us, Go, return to the king that sent you, and say to him, Thus saith the Lord, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that thou goest to inquire of Baal fly, the god of Ekron? it shall not be so: the bed on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down from it, for thou shalt surely die.
4 Kingdoms 1:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elijah spoke to him, and said, Thus saith the Lord, Why hast thou sent messengers to inquire of Baal fly, the god of Ekron? it shall not be so: the bed on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down from it, for thou shalt surely die.
4 Kingdoms 2:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elisha went out to the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and says, Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be any longer death thence or barren land.
4 Kingdoms 4:40 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he poured it out for the men to eat: and it came to pass, when they were eating of the pottage, that lo! they cried out, and said, There is death in the pot, O man of God. And they could not eat.
4 Kingdoms 8:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elisha said, Go, say, Thou shalt certainly live; yet the Lord has shown me that thou shalt surely die.
4 Kingdoms 11:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were over the host, and said to them, Bring her forth without the ranges, and he that goes in after her shall certainly die by the sword. For the priest said, Let her not however be slain in the house of the Lord.
4 Kingdoms 15:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord plagued the king, and he was leprous till the day of his death; and he reigned in a separate house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land.
4 Kingdoms 20:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In those days was Hezekiah sick even to death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came in to him, and said to him, Thus saith the Lord, Give charge to thy household; for thou shalt die, and not live.
1 Chronicles 21:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
either three years of famine, or that thou shouldest flee three months from the face of thine enemies, and the sword of thine enemies shall be employed to destroy thee, or that the sword of the Lord and pestilence should be three days in the land, and the angel of the Lord shall be destroying in all the inheritance of Israel. And now consider what I shall answer to him that sent the message.
1 Chronicles 21:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So the Lord brought pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
2 Chronicles 6:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If there should be famine upon the land, if there should be death, a pestilent wind and blight; if there should be locust and caterpillar, and if the enemy should harass them before their cities: in whatever plague and whatever distress they may be;
2 Chronicles 7:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If I should restrain the heaven and there should be no rain, and if I should command the locust to devour the trees, and if I should send pestilence upon my people;
2 Chronicles 20:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If there should come upon us evils, sword, judgment, pestilence, famine, we will stand before this house, and before thee (for thy name is upon this house), and we will cry to thee because of the affliction, and thou shalt hear, and deliver.
2 Chronicles 32:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Does not Hezekiah deceive you, to deliver you to death and famine and thirst, saying, The Lord our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
2 Chronicles 32:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In those days Hezekiah was sick even to death, and prayed to the Lord: and he hearkened to him, and gave him a sign.
2 Chronicles 32:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in a high place among the sepulchers of the sons of David: and all Judah and the dwellers in Jerusalem gave him glory and honor at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
Ezra 7:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
Esther 4:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he gave him the copy of the writing that was published in Susa concerning their destruction, to show to Esther; and told him to charge her to go in and entreat the king, and to beg him for the people, remembering, said he, the days of thy low estate, how thou wert nursed by my hand: because Haman who holds the next place to the king has spoken against us for death. Do thou call upon the Lord, and speak to the king concerning us, to deliver us from death.
Job 3:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; Let blackness come upon it;
Job 3:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who desire death, and obtain it not, Digging for it as for treasures;
Job 3:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Death is rest to such a man, For God has hedged him in.
Job 5:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In famine he shall deliver thee from death: And in war he shall free thee from the power of the sword.
Job 7:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou wilt separate life from my spirit; And yet keep my bones from death.
Job 9:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the worthless die, But the righteous are laughed to scorn.
Job 12:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Revealing deep things out of darkness: And he has brought into light the shadow of death.
Job 15:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For death is the witness of an ungodly man, And fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.
Job 17:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have called upon death to be my father, And corruption to be my mother and sister.
Job 18:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let the soles of his feet be devoured: And death shall consume his beauty.
Job 24:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death, For each will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2288, grouped by book.

Genesis 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 13 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 13 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ruth 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 15 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Esther 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 20 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 27 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 15 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 20 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 20 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jonah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 7 usages, New Testament
Mark 6 usages, New Testament
Luke 7 usages, New Testament
John 8 usages, New Testament
Acts 8 usages, New Testament
Romans 20 usages, New Testament
1 Corinthians 7 usages, New Testament
2 Corinthians 8 usages, New Testament
Philippians 5 usages, New Testament
Colossians 1 usage, New Testament
2 Timothy 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 8 usages, New Testament
James 2 usages, New Testament
1 John 3 usages, New Testament
Revelation 15 usages, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 8 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 27 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 10 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 28 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Letter of Jeremiah 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Daniel 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Book 151 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G2288 FAQ

What does thanatos (θάνατος) mean?

Thanatos (Strong's G2288) is a Greek word most simply glossed "death". thanatos (than'-at-os) n. 1. death {literally or figuratively; properly, an adjective used as a noun}

How many times is thanatos (θάνατος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 432 linked usages for Strong's G2288 across 58 books.

Where can I study thanatos (θάνατος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2288 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate thanatos (θάνατος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as death, lord, die, said, let, and surely. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2288 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 235 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 90 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G2288, with linked reader references where each row is available.