ἀποθνήσκω, impf. ἀπέθνησκον (Lk. viii. 42); 2 aor. ἀπέθανον ; fut. ἀποθανοῦμαι, Ro. ν. 7; Jn. viii. 21, 24, (see θνήσκω) ; found in Grk. writ. fr. Hom. down; to die (ἀπό, so as to be no more; [cf. Lat. emorior; Eng. die of f or out, pass away]; Germ. ab sterben, ver sterben) ; I. used properly 1. of the natural death of men: Mt. ix. 24; xxii. 24; Lk. xvi. 22; Jn. iv.47; Ro. vii. 2, and very often; ἀποθνήσκοντες ἄνθρωποι subject to death, mortal, Heb. vii. 8 [B. 206 (178) }. 2. of the violent death — both of animals, Mt. viii. 32, and of men, Mt. xxvi. 35; Acts xxi. 13 ete.; 1 Pet. iii. 18 L T Tr WH txt.; ev φόνῳ μαχαίρας, Heb. xi. 37; of the punishment of death, Heb. x. 28; often of the violent death which Christ suffered, as Jn. xii. 33; Ro. v. 6, ete. 3. Phrases: ἀποθνήσκ. ἔκ twos to perish by means of something, [ef. Eng. to die of], Rev. viii. 11; ἐν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, ἐν ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις, fixed in sin, hence to die unreformed, Jn. viii. 21, 24; ἐν τῷ ᾿Αδάμ by connection with Adam, 1 Co. xv. 22; ἐν κυρίῳ in fellowship with, and trusting in, the Lord, Rev. xiv. 13; ἀποθνήσκ. τι to die a certain death, Ro. vi. 10, (θάνατον μακρόν, Charit. p. 12 ed. D’Orville []. i. 6. 8 p. 17, 6 ed. Beck; ef. W. 227 (213); B. 149 (180)]); τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, used of Christ, ‘that he might not have to busy himself more with the sin of men,’ Ro. vi. 10; ἑαυτῷ to become one’s own master, independent, by dying, Ro. xiv. 7 [cf. Meyer]; τῷ κυρίῳ to become subject to the Lord’s will by dying, Ro. xiv. 8 [ef. Mey.]; διά τινα i. 6. to save one, 1 Co. viii. 11; on the phrases ἀπὸοθνήσκ. περί and ὑπέρ twos, see περί I. c. δ. and ὑπέρ I. 2and 3. Oratorically, although the proper signification of the verb is retained, καθ᾽ ἡμέραν ἀποθνήσκω I meet death daily, live daily in danger of death, 1 Co. xv. 31, cf. 2 Co. vi. 9. 4. of trees which dry up, Jude 12; of seeds, which while being resolvea into their elements in the ground seem fo perish by rotting, Jn. xii. 24 ; 1 Co. xv. 36. II. tropically, in various senses ; 1. of eternal death, as it is called, i. e. to be subject to eternal misery, and that, too, already beginning on earth: Ro. viii. 13; Jn. vi. 50; xi. 26. 2. of moral death, in various senses; a. to be deprived of real life, 1. 6. esp. of the power of doing right, of confidence in God and the hope of future blessedness, Ro. vii. 10; of the spiritual torpor of those who have fallen from the fellowship of Christ, the fountain of true life, Rev. iii. 2. Ὁ. with dat. of the thing [cf. W. 210 (197); 428 (398); B. 178 (155)], to become wholly alienated from a thing, and freed from all connection with it: τῷ νόμῳ, Gal. ii. 19, which must also be supplied with ἀποθανόντες (for so we must read for Rec®!? ἀποθανόντο ς) in Ro. vii. 6 [ef. W. 159 (150) ]; τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, Ro. vi. 2 (in another sense in vs. 10; see I. 3 above); ἀπὸ τῶν στοιχείων τοῦ κόσμου so that your relation to etc. has passed away, Col. ii. 20, (ἀπὸ τῶν παθῶν, Porphyr. de abst. animal. 1, 41 [cf. B. 322 (277) ; W. 370 (347)]); true Christians are said simply ἀποθανεῖν, as having put off all sensibility to worldly things that draw them away from God, Col. iii. 3; since they owe this habit of mind to the death of Christ, they are said also ἀποθανεῖν σὺν Χριστῷ, Ro. vi. 8; Col. ii. 20. [Comp.: συναποθνήσκω.]

ἀποθνῄσκω apothnēskō 111x

to die, Mt. 8:32; to decay, rot, as seeds, Jn. 12:24; 1 Cor. 15:36; to wither, become dry, as a tree, Jude 12; met. to die the death of final condemnation and misery, Jn. 6:50; 8:21, 24; to die to a thing by renunciation or utter separation, Rom. 6:2; 1 Cor. 15:31; Gal. 2;19; Col. 3:3

ἀπο-θνῄσκω,

[in LXX chiefly for מוּת;]

to die: of natural death, Mk 5:35, al.; of violent death (pass. of ἀποκτείνω), esp. of Christ, Mt 26:35, Jo 12:33, He 10:28, al.; of spiritual death, Jo 6:50, Ro 8:13, al.; c. dat. ref., Ro 6:2, 10 14:7, 8, Ga 2:19; acc., ὅ, Ro 6:10; seq. ἐν, Mt 8:32, Jo 8:21, 24, I Co 15:22, He 11:37, Re 14:13; seq. ὑπέρ, περί, Jo 11:50, 51 18:14, Ro 5:6-8 14:15, I Co 15:3, II Co 5:15, I Th 5:10, I Pe 3:18; ἀπό, Col 2:20; ἐκ, Re 8:11; fig., I Co 15:31 (cf. συν-αποθνήσκω, and V. Milligan, NTD, 258 f.; DCG, i, 791b; Cremer, 286; MM, s.v.; on the perfective force of this verb, M, Pr., 112, 114; and on the distinction bet. pres. and aor., M, Pr., 113 f.).

ἀποθνήσκω. On the reason why the perfect of this verb was τέθνηκα, hot ἀποτέθνηκα, see Pro/eg. p. 114. Marcus Aurelius, it is true, uses ἀποτέθνηκα, a natural result of levelling when the simplex had become obsolete ; but the editor of P Iand 09> (ii/A.D.) is not thereby justified in restoring ἀπο]τεθνῶτ[ος. No other part of the simplex survives, and no other compound. An interesting instance of the word occurs in P Par 477® (c. B.C. 153) (= Selections, p. 22) οἱ παρὰ σὲ θεοὶ. . . ὅτι ἐνβέβληκαν ὑμᾶς εἰς ὕλην μεγάλην Kal od δυνάμεθα ἀποθανεῖν, “your gods (are false) because they have cast us into a great forest, where we may possibly die.” As a parallel to the Pauline usage in 1 Cor 15% may be noted the touching letter P Giss I. 179 (time of Hadrian), where a slave writes to her absent master, ἀποθνήσκομεν ὅτι οὐ βλέπομέν σε καθ᾽ ἡμέραν. The use of the present tense justifies one more citation, BGU IV. 1o2qiy-® (iv/v a.p.), where a ἦγεμών, passing sentence of death on a man who had disinterred a corpse, says he is less than a beast, καὶ yap τὰ θηρία [τ]οῖς μὲν ἀνθρώποις πρόσισιν, τῶν δὲ [ἀ]Ἰποθνησκόντων φίδοντα[ι]. Here the meaning is ‘‘ spare them when they die”: the pres. is frequentative, as in Heb γ8 or Rev 1413, The MGr is ἀποθαίνω (or πεθαίνω etc.).

ἀποθνήσκω (apothnēskō) — to die. ἀποθνήσκω, future -θᾰνοῦμαι, Ionic dialect -θανέομαι or -εῦμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+] —strengthened for θνῄσκω, die, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; in Comedy texts and Prose the usual form of the present; σεῦ ἀποτεθνηῶτος[Refs 8th c.BC+]; νόσῳ[Refs 5th c.BC+]; to be ready to die, of laughter, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. serving as passive of ἀποκτείνω, to be put to death, slain, ὑπό τινος[Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially by judicial sentence, ἀποθανεῖν ὑπὸ τῆς πόλεως[Refs 5th c.BC+]

III. renounce, νόμῳ[NT]