Teleute means “death” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5054 — negohah (“brightness”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5054 τελευτή (teleute) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. teleute (tel-yoo-tay') n. 1. decease [from G5053] It has 27 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include death. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
teleute (tel-yoo-tay') n. 1. decease [from G5053] KJV: death Root(s): G5053
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5054. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
death
Usage: τελευτή, -ῆς, ἡ (τελέω), [in LXX chiefly for מוּת, מָוֶת ;] __1. a finishing. __2. an end: τ. βίου (Hdt., al.): also without βίου, the end of life, death (Hdt., Plat., al.): Mat.2:15.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render teleute, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and New Testament. 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.
Strong's G5054 (τελευτή) appears 26 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
9 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And he said, Behold, I am grown old, and know not the day of my death.
For I know that after my death ye will utterly transgress, and turn aside out of the way which I have commanded you; and evils shall come upon you in the latter days, because ye will do evil before the Lord, to provoke him to anger by the works of your hands.
And this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
17 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Now after the death of Judas the wicked began to put forth their heads in all the coasts of Israel, and there arose up all such as wrought iniquity.
And this was the end of Antiochus, called Epiphanes.
For as it is hurtful to drink wine or water alone; and as wine mingled with water is pleasant, and delighteth the taste: even so speech finely framed delighteth the ears of them that read the story. And here shall be an end.
First 27 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5054.
And he said, Behold, I am grown old, and know not the day of my death.
For I know that after my death ye will utterly transgress, and turn aside out of the way which I have commanded you; and evils shall come upon you in the latter days, because ye will do evil before the Lord, to provoke him to anger by the works of your hands.
And this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
And it came to pass after the death of Moses, that the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, saying,
And it came to pass after the death of Joshua, that the children of Israel inquired of the Lord, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?
And David said, My son Solomon is a tender child, and the house for me to build to the Lord is for superior magnificence for a name and for a glory through all the earth: I will make preparation for it. And David prepared abundantly before his death.
And it came to pass after the death of Jehoiada, that the princes of Judah went in, and did obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened to them.
And Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and he dwelt as a leper in a separate house; for he was cut off from the house of the Lord: and Jotham his son was set over his kingdom, judging the people of the land.
Thus shalt thou perceive wisdom in thy soul: For if thou find it, thine end shall be good, And hope shall not fail thee.
And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
Now after the death of Judas the wicked began to put forth their heads in all the coasts of Israel, and there arose up all such as wrought iniquity.
And this was the end of Antiochus, called Epiphanes.
For as it is hurtful to drink wine or water alone; and as wine mingled with water is pleasant, and delighteth the taste: even so speech finely framed delighteth the ears of them that read the story. And here shall be an end.
For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, And in the death of a man there is no remedy: Neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave.
For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; And after our end there is no returning: For it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh again.
For they shall see the end of the wise, And shall not understand what God in his counsel hath decreed of him, And to what end the Lord hath set him in safety.
We fools accounted his life madness, And his end to be without honor:
And he shall find favor in the day of his death.
For it is an easy thing unto the Lord in the day of death To reward a man according to his ways.
Judge none blessed before his death: For a man shall be known in his children.
Think upon the wrath that shall be at the end, And the time of vengeance, when he shall turn away his face.
While he lived, he saw and rejoiced in him: And when he died, he was not sorrowful.
Their imagination of things to come, and the day of death, Trouble their thoughts, and cause fear of heart;
And after his death he prophesied, And showed the king his end, And lifted up his voice from the earth in prophecy, To blot out the wickedness of the people.
He did wonders in his life, And at his death were his works marvelous.
Great, and hath none end; high, and unmeasurable.
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Teleute (Strong's G5054) is a Greek word most simply glossed "death". teleute (tel-yoo-tay') n. 1. decease [from G5053]
This page currently indexes 27 linked usages for Strong's G5054 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5054 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as death. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 9 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 17 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5054, with linked reader references where each row is available.