Strong G5054τελευτή

death

Transliteration
teleutē
Pronunciation
tel-yoo-tay'
Morphology
Greek Noun (Feminine)

Definition

From G5053; decease: - death.

Detailed definition

τελευτή, -ῆς, ἡ
(τελέω), [in LXX chiefly for מוּת, מָוֶת;]
1. a finishing.

2. an end: τ. βίου (Hdt., al.): also without βίου, the end of life, death (Hdt., Plat., al.): Mat.2:15.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G5054 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • death1

First verses

  1. Matthew 2:15
    And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
τελευτ-ή, ἡ,
(τελέω) completion, accomplishment, τελευτὴν ποιῆσαι [γάμου] accomplish, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.249, 16.126; κραίνειν τελευτὰν γάμου 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.66)]; τ. νόστου[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1.35; οὐ γάρ μοι δοκέει μύθοιο τ. τῇδέ γ᾽ ὁδῷ κρανέεσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.625.)]
2 event, issue, δεῖξεν πᾶσαν τ. πράγματος [Refs 6th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.75, compare 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1075)]; γάμου πικραὶ τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 745 (Lyric poetry); τ. πρευμενεῖς κτίσαι [prev. author] “Supp.” 138 (Lyric poetry); θεσφάτων [prev. author] “Pers.” 740 (troch.); κακοῦ θυμοῦ τ... κακὴ προσγίγνεται 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1198.)]
3 termination, end, οὐδέ τις ἦν ἔριδος λύσις οὐδὲ τ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 637; μή μ᾽ ἀποσβεσθὲν λάθῃ πρὸς τῇ τ. τῆς ὁδοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 294 (Lyric poetry); ἡ τ. τοῦ πολέμου 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.13; καλλίστην τελευτὴν ἐπιτιθέντες κινδύνοις 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.47; τελευτὴν ἔχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 782a.)]
4 especially βιότοιο τ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.104, 16.787; βίου 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.30, 31, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.24; τ. τοῦ βίου τελεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 79; ἐπὶ τελευτῇ τοῦ βίου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 516a.
4.b frequently without βίου, the end of life, death, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 5.22, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 118, etc.; τ. ὑστάτη 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1256)]; τελευτῆς λαχεῖν, τυχεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.44, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.4.6; τ. δοῦναι [prev. author] “Cyr.” 8.7.3)]; periphrastic, θανάτοιο τ. the end that is death, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 357, compare τέλος 1.4; τῆς γηραιοῦ τ. προαποθνῄσκειν 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.1.2.)]
5 with Preps., in adverb sense, ἐς τελευτήν at the end, at last, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (Hymni Homerici 7.29, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 333, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 201, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1223 (Lyric poetry); ἐπὶ τελευτῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 267d, etc.; ἐν τελευτᾷ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.26, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 936 (Lyric poetry).)]
II end, extremity of anything, as of limbs, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 654b24, compare 685a1, “GA” 720b18, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 33b, “Men.” 75e.)]
II.2 end, close of a sentence, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1420b2, etc.)]; of a play, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Po.” 1450b29, compare 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 257)]; of a word, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 1.6.1.)]