"pr. to put to death, kill; in NT met. to deaden, mortify, Col. 3:5; pass. to be rendered impotent, Rom. 4:19; Heb. 11:12*"
Definition and meaning
pr. to put to death, kill; in NT met. to deaden, mortify, Col. 3:5; pass. to be rendered impotent, Rom. 4:19; Heb. 11:12*
In the original Greek the word is written: νεκρόω
Historical context
Paul wrote Romans from Corinth, one of the most important commercial cities in the empire. Rome had a Jewish population of around 50,000. The letter addresses real tensions between Jewish believers with centuries of Torah tradition and Gentile believers with no such background. Emperor Nero was on the throne. Within ten years he would execute both Paul and Peter.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of nekroo (G3499) across the King James Bible.
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 Sara'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.
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Common questions
Strong's G3499 (nekroo) is a Greek word that means: pr. to put to death, kill; in NT met. to deaden, mortify, Col. 3:5; pass. to be rendered impotent, Rom. 4:19; Heb. 11:12* It appears 3 times in the King James Bible.
The word nekroo (G3499) appears 3 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G3499 is nekroo, a Greek word defined as: pr. to put to death, kill; in NT met. to deaden, mortify, Col. 3:5; pass. to be rendered impotent, Rom. 4:19; Heb. 11:12*. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
nekroo is a Greek word found in the New Testament.