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Notes: In certain instances, particularly in the case of θανατόω[b] and νεκρόω, it is difficult to determine whether the figurative meanings involved have become conventionalized or whether they represent what may be called figurative usage, in other words, new figures of speech which no doubt had become somewhat conventional for the Christian community.

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: ἡμιθανής · θανάσιμον · θανατηφόρος · θάνατος

Sense 1: to kill, to execute

Semantic entry: 20.65

Semantic domains: Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill

Subdomains: Kill

Definition: to deprive a person of life, with the implication of this being the result of condemnation by legal or quasi-legal procedures

MAT 10:21: RV MAT 10:21 · LV MAT 10:21 · Read together MAT 10:21

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OET-RV MAT 10:21

21 “One sibling will turn another in to be executed, and a father his child, and children will be rebelling against their parents and having them put to death.

OET-LV MAT 10:21

21 And brother will _be _giving _over brother to death, and father child, and children will _be _rising _up against parents, and they _will _be _putting_ them _to _death.

MAT 26:59: RV MAT 26:59 · LV MAT 26:59 · Read together MAT 26:59

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OET-RV MAT 26:59

59 The chief priests and the whole council tried to find people who would bring false accusations against Yeshua so they could sentence him to death,

OET-LV MAT 26:59

59 And the chief _priests and the whole council were _seeking false _witness against the Yaʸsous so _that they _may _put_ him _to _death,

All 9 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 10:21 · RV MAT 26:59 · RV MAT 27:1 · LV MAT 10:21 · LV MAT 26:59 · LV MAT 27:1 · Read together MAT 10:21 · Read together MAT 26:59 · Read together MAT 27:1

MRK: RV MRK 13:12 · RV MRK 14:55 · LV MRK 13:12 · LV MRK 14:55 · Read together MRK 13:12 · Read together MRK 14:55

LUK: RV LUK 21:16 · LV LUK 21:16 · Read together LUK 21:16

ROM: RV ROM 8:36 · LV ROM 8:36 · Read together ROM 8:36

CO2: RV CO2 6:9 · LV CO2 6:9 · Read together CO2 6:9

PE1: RV PE1 3:18 · LV PE1 3:18 · Read together PE1 3:18

Sense 2: to stop completely, to cease completely

Semantic entry: 68.48

Semantic domains: Aspect

Subdomains: Cease, Stop

Definition: (a figurative extension of meaning of θανατόω[a] ‘to put to death,’ 20.65: αἴρω / 20.65: ἀπάγω / 20.65: θανατόω) to cease completely from activity, with the implication of extreme measures taken to guarantee such a cessation{N:001}

Notes: It is possible that in rendering this expression in RV ROM 8:13 · LV ROM 8:13 · Read together ROM 8:13 one may desire to retain the figure of speech and therefore translate ‘if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body.’

ROM 7:4: RV ROM 7:4 · LV ROM 7:4 · Read together ROM 7:4

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OET-RV ROM 7:4

4 So, my brothers and sisters, you, too, were made dead to the law through the body of the messiah so that you could join to another—to the one who came back to life from the dead—so that we can bear fruit for God.

OET-LV ROM 7:4

4 So _that, brothers of _me, also you _all were _put _to _death to _the law by the body of _the chosen _one /messiah, in _order that to _become you _all to _another, to _the one from the_dead having _been _raised, in _order _that we _may _bear _fruit to_ the _god.

ROM 8:13: RV ROM 8:13 · LV ROM 8:13 · Read together ROM 8:13

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OET-RV ROM 8:13

13 If your lives, brothers and sisters, are governed by your sinful natures, you’ll die, but if you put bodily practices to death with the help of the spirit, you’ll live,

OET-LV ROM 8:13

13 For/Because if according _to the_flesh you _all _are _living, you _all _are _going to _be _dying _off, but if by_the_spirit the practices of _the body you _all _are _putting _to _death, you _all _will _be _living.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

θανατόω

Form 1

Sense 1: to kill, to execute

Sense 2: to stop completely, to cease completely