Definition

decease; figuratively, impotency

Etymology

from G3499 (νεκρόω);

Word family

• νεκρόω nekróō

How the KJV renders it

• deadness
• dying

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.