θανατόω

θανατόω — thanatóō

θανατόω, θανάτῳ; future θανατώσω; 1 aorist infinitive θανατῶσαι (3 person plural subjunctive θανατώσωσι, Mat 26:59 R G); passive (present θανατοῦμαι); 1 aorist ἐθανατωθην; (from θάνατος); from Aeschylus and Herodotus down; the Sept. for הֵמִית, הָרַג, etc.

1. properly, to put to death: τινα, Mat 10:21; Mat 26:59; Mat 27:1; Mar 13:12; Mar 14:55; Luk 21:16; 2Co 6:9; 1Pe 3:18; passive, by rhetorical hyperbole, to be in the state of one who is being put to death, Rom 8:36.

2. metaphorically,

a. to make to die i. e. destroy, render extinct (something vigorous), Vulg.mortifico (A. V. mortify): τί, Rom 8:13.

b. passive with the dative of the thing, by death to be liberated from the bond of anything (literally, to be made dead in relation to; cf. Winers Grammar, 210 (197); Buttmann, 178 (155)): Rom 7:4.