Lexical Definition

‎νεκρός‎ nekrós (nek-ros') dead ^G:A
from an apparently primary (a corpse)

dead.

• dead (literally or figuratively
• also as noun)

Abbott-Smith

νεκρός, -ά, -όν, [in LXX chiefly for מֵת;]
dead,
I. as adj.,
1. prop.: Ac 5:10 20:9, Ja 2:26, Re 1:18, al.; ὡσεὶ ν., Mt 28:4, Mk 9:26, Re 1:17; of that which is subject to death, Ro 8:10.
2. Metaph.,
(a) of persons: Lk 15:24, 32; of those immersed in worldly cares, Mt 8:22, Lk 9:60; of spiritual death, Jo 5:25, Ro 6:13, Eph 5:14, Re 3:1; τ. παραπτώμασιν, Eph 2:1, 5, Col 2:13; of the opposite condition, ν. τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, Ro 6:11;
(b) of things regarded as inoperative, devoid of power: ἁμαρτία, Ro 7:8; πίστις, Ja 2:17, 26; ἔργα, He 6:1 9:14.
II. As subst., νεκρός, ὁ (Hom., al.), chiefly in pl. (οἱ) ν., the dead: Mt 11:5, Mk 12:26, Lk 20:37, I Co 15:15, al.; ἀνάστασις (τ.) νεκρῶν, Mt 22:31, Ac 17:32, al.; ν. . . . ζῶντες, Mt 22:32, Mk 12:27, Ac 10:42, al.; ἀπὸ νεκρῶν, Lk 16:30; ἐκ ν., Mk 6:14, Lk 24:46, Jo 12:1, Ac 13:34, Ro 10:7, al.; πρωτότοκος ἐκ τῶν ν., Col 1:18; ζωὴ ἐκ ν., Ro 11:15; constr. praegn., ἐκ ν. ζῶντες, Ro 6:13.

Abbott-Smith References

Liddell-Scott-Jones

νεκρός, ὁ

(of a woman, [Refs 4th c.BC+], corpse, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: as substantive, in early writers always of mankind, νεκροὺς συλήσετε τεθνηῶτας [Refs 8th c.BC+]: frequently of those killed in battle, τοὺς ν. ὑποσπόνδους ἀνείλοντο [Refs 5th c.BC+]; later, of a fish, ν. ἰχθύος [Refs 1st c.AD+]

__2 dying person, μυχθισμὸς νεκρῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 metaphorically, ὁ υἱός μου ν. ἦν καὶ ἀνέζησε [NT]
__4 in plural, the dead, as dwellers in the nether world, κλυτὰ ἔθνεα νεκρῶν [NT+8th c.BC+]
__II as adjective νεκρός, ά, όν, dead, first in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ν. σώματα Mitteis [Refs 5th c.BC+] (but also τὰ τῶν ν. σώματα [Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative -ότερος[Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.2 inanimate, inorganic, opposed to ἔμψυχος, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; οὐχὶ ν., ὥσπερ λίθον ἢ ξύλον, ἀλλὰ ζῶν [Refs]; ἡ ν. θάλασσα the [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.3 metaphorically, ν. πλοῦτος [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

_{LSJ Scripture Refs: Luke.15.24 ☩ Rev.3.1 ☩ Rom.6.11 ☩ LXX.Ps.87.5* ☩ John.12.1 ☩ Luke.20.35 ☩ Rom.11.15}