Cognate: 3499 nekróō (from 3498 /nekrós, corpse-like, lifeless") – to view as a corpse, i.e. without life; to regard (but not "make") as dead, inoperative; to mortify, deprive of life or energizing power; (figuratively) to cut off (sever) everything that energizes (especially sin in Col 3:5).

STRONGS NT 3499: νεκρόω

νεκρόω, νεκρῷ: 1 aorist imperative Νεκρώσατε; perfect passive participle νενεκρωμενος; to make dead (Vulg. and Latin Fathersmortifico), to put to death, slay: τινα, properly, Authol. app. 313, 5; passive νενεκρωμενος, hyperbolically, worn out, of an impotent old man, Hebrews 11:12; also σῶμα νενεκρωμενος, Romans 4:19; equivalent to to deprive of power, destroy the strength of: τά μέλη, i. e. the evil desire lurking in the members (of the body), Colossians 3:5. (τά δόγματα, Antoninus 7, 2; τήν ἕξιν, Plutarch, de primo frig. 21; (ἄνθρωπος, of obduracy, Epictetus diss. 1, 5, 7).)



be dead, mortify.

From nekros; to deaden, i.e. (figuratively) to subdue -- be dead, mortify.

see GREEK nekros

νεκρά — 3 Occ.
νεκράν — 1 Occ.
νεκρῶν — 78 Occ.
νεκροὶ — 14 Occ.
νεκροῖς — 2 Occ.
νεκρόν — 3 Occ.
νεκρὸς — 9 Occ.
νεκροῦ — 1 Occ.
νεκροὺς — 19 Occ.
Νεκρώσατε — 1 Occ.
νενεκρωμένου — 1 Occ.
νέκρωσιν — 2 Occ.
Νέαν — 1 Occ.
νέας — 2 Occ.
νεωτέρας — 3 Occ.
νεώτεροι — 2 Occ.
νεώτερος — 4 Occ.
νεωτέρους — 2 Occ.
νέον — 9 Occ.
νέος — 1 Occ.