thanatēforos

Strong’sG2287

death-bringing, deadly

stem thanatēfor-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

θανατη-φόρος, -ον

(< θάνατος, φέρω), [in LXX: Nu 18:22 (מוּת), Jb 33:23, IV Mac 8:18, 26 15:26*;]

deadly, death-bringing: Ja 3:8.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2287 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidthan-at-ay'-for-os

death-bearing, i.e. fatal

Fromfrom (the feminine form of) G2288 and G5342;

King Jamesdeadly.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

θᾰνᾰτήφορ-ος, ον,
death-bringing, αἶσα Refs 4th c.BC+; περίοδος θ. cycle of mortality, Refs 5th c.BC+; of hurts or accidents, Refs 5th c.BC+; of a surgical operation, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ῥίζα ἐν Αἰθιοπία, of arrow-poison, Acokanthera Schimperi, Refs 4th c.BC+; γένεθλα.. θ. κεῖται causing death by contagion, Refs 5th c.BC+; πᾶσαι μεταβολαὶ πολιτειῶν θ. LXX+5th c.BC+; δίκαι capital trials, Refs 2nd c.AD+. adverb -ρως, νοσεῖν Refs 1st c.BC+: neuter singular as adverb, ἐπλήγη οὐχὶ -φόρον Refs 4th c.BC+; but -φόρον ᾄδειν to sing a death song, Refs 1st c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

deadly1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	thanatēforos	thanatēforas	thanatēforem	thanatēforois	thanatēforais	thanatēforeim
object accusative	thanatēforon	thanatēforan		thanatēforoin	thanatēforain
direct address vocative	thanatēforor	thanatēforar		thanatēforoir	thanatēforair
of, belonging to genitive	thanatēforou1×θανατηφόρου	thanatēforau	thanatēforeu	thanatēforoiu	thanatēforaiu	thanatēforeiu
to, for dative	thanatēforo	thanatēfora	thanatēfore	thanatēforoi	thanatēforai	thanatēforei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

thanatēforstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

thanatēfor is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

thanatēforou“deadly”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

James 3:8… dunotō anthrōpoiu; akatastatem kakosem, mestas iou thanatēforou.… is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.