Nekroo means “be dead” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3499 — yether (“cord”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3499 νεκρόω (nekroo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. nekroo (nek-roh'-o) v. 1. to deaden 2. (figuratively) to subdue It has 3 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include dead and mortify. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament.
nekroo (nek-roh'-o) v. 1. to deaden 2. (figuratively) to subdue [from G3498] KJV: be dead, mortify Root(s): G3498
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3499. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to put to death
Usage: νεκρόω, ῶ (νεκρός), to make dead, put to death; pass., to be dead: hyperbolically, of impotent age, Heb.11:12; σῶμα, Rom.4:19. Trop., of carnal impulses, τὰ μέλη, Col.3:5.† (AS)
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
First 3 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3499.
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3499, grouped by book.
Nekroo (Strong's G3499) is a Greek word most simply glossed "be dead". nekroo (nek-roh'-o) v. 1. to deaden 2. (figuratively) to subdue
This page currently indexes 3 linked usages for Strong's G3499 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3499 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as dead and mortify. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.