Word Summary
thanatēphoros: death-bringing
Original Word: θανατηφόροςTransliteration: thanatēphoros
Phonetic Spelling: (than-at-ay'-for-os)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: death-bringing
Meaning: death-bringing
Strong's Concordance
deadly.
From (the feminine form of) thanatos and phero; death-bearing, i.e. Fatal -- deadly.
see GREEK thanatos
see GREEK phero
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2287: θανατηφόροςθανατηφόρος,
θανατηφόρον (
θάνατος and
φέρω),
death-bringing, deadly:
James 3:8. (
Numbers 18:22;
Job 33:23; 4 Macc. 8:17, 25; 15:26;
Aeschylus,
Plato,
Aristotle,
Diodorus,
Xenophon,
Plutarch, others.)