adjective
thnētas
Strong’sG2349
mortal
stem thnēt-6 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books4 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.
θνητός, -ή, -όν
(< θνήσκω), [in LXX: Pr 3:13 20:24 (אָדָם), Jb 30:23 (חַי), Is 51:12 (מוּת), Wi 9:14 15:17, II Mac 9:12, III Mac 3:29*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2349 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidthnay-tos'
liable to die
Fromfrom G2348;
King Jamesmortal(-ity).
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
also ός, όν Refs 5th c.BC+: Doric dialect θνᾱτός (see. below): Aeolic dialect θνᾶτος Refs 7th c.BC+: (θνῄσκω):— liable to death, mortal, opposed to ἀθάνατος, frequently in Refs 8th c.BC+ substantive, θνητοί mortals, Refs 8th c.BC+; θνηταί mortal women, Refs; πάντων τῶν θ. of all mortal creatures, Refs 5th c.BC+; εἴ τις φθόγγος (φθόγγον codex, but θ. is only used of living persons) εἰσακούεται θνητῶν παρ᾽ Ἅιδῃ Refs 5th c.BC+: comparative, ἐν θνητῷ ὄντες, ἔτι θνητοτέρους ἑαυτοὺς ποιοῦντες Refs 3rd c.AD+: superlative, θνητότατος πάντων Refs 3rd c.AD+
2 of things, befitting mortals, human, ἔργματα Refs 5th c.BC+
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.
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 | thnētos | thnētas | thnētem3×θνητὸν | thnētois | thnētais | thnēteim1×θνητὰ |
| object accusative | thnēton | thnētan | thnētoin | thnētain | ||
| direct address vocative | thnētor | thnētar | thnētoir | thnētair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | thnētou | thnētau | thnēteu | thnētoiu | thnētaiu | thnēteiu |
| to, for dative | thnēto | thnēta1×θνητῇ | thnēte1×θνητῷ | thnētoi | thnētai | thnētei |
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
thnēt 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.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
thnēta“mortal”to, fordative singular1×
2 Corinthians 4:11… zōas tou Iēsu faneriteia en ta thnēta sarka nu.… may also be revealed in our mortal body.
thnētem“mortal”subject or objectdirect singular3×
1 Corinthians 15:53… fthartem houtem enduera aftharsian kai tem thnētem houtem enduera athanasian.… clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
1 Corinthians 15:54… fthartem houtem endueteia aftharsian kai tem thnētem houtem endueteia athanasian, tote geneti tos …… clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that …
2 Corinthians 5:4“mortal”… ekduera alla ependuera, hina katapiniteia tem thnētem hupo tau zōau.… to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life.
thnēte“mortal”to, fordative singular1×
Romans 6:12… oun basilatōr tas hamartas en te thnēte vu sōme eis tem hupakouarō tai …… not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its …
thnēteim“mortal”subject or objectdirect plural1×
Romans 8:11… nekroiu Christon Iēsun zōopoiati kai teim thnēteim sōmeim vu dia tem enoikarōntem autou …… will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives …