θάνατος
thanatos
Death; in apocalyptic literature the term can name mortality, personified death, or a means of judgment.
- Pronunciation
- thá-na-tosPronunciation is approximate and may vary by period, dialect, and scholarly reconstruction.
- Morphology
- masculine noun
- Semantic range
- death
- mortality
- personified Death
- Key passages
Corpus usage
- Revelation can personify Death and also list death among judgment outcomes.
Common interpretive errors
- Assuming every occurrence means one disease.
- Ignoring personification and literary symbolism.