νέκρωσις

νέκρωσις — nékrōsis

νέκρωσις, νεκρωσεως, ἡ (νεκρόω);

1. properly, a putting to death (Vulg.mortificatio in 2Co 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), 2Co 4:10.

3. equivalent to τό νενεκρωμένον εἶναι, the dead state (A. V. deadness), utter sluggishness (of bodily members and organs, Galen): Rom 4:19.