STRONGS G3500:
νέκρωσις,
νεκρωσεως,
ἡ (
νεκρόω);
1. properly,
a putting to death (
Vulg.mortificatio in
2 Corinthians 4:10),
killing.
2. equivalent to
τό νεκρουσθαι (the being put to death), with
τοῦ Ἰησοῦ added, i. e. the (protracted) death (
A. V. the dying) which Jesus underwent in God's service (on the genitive cf.
Winer's Grammar, 189 (178) note), Paul so styles the marks of perpetual trials, misfortunes, hardships attended with peril of death, evident in his body (cf. Meyer),
2 Corinthians 4:10.
3. equivalent to
τό νενεκρωμένον εἶναι,
the dead state (A. V. deadness
), utter sluggishness (of bodily members and organs,
Galen):
Romans 4:19.
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