What is the biblical definition of the word 'death'?

Question

This is not a trick question, but it does take a little research and logic to figure out.

It is also the Key to understanding what in the world God is talking about in the Bible.

Answer 1

Eclessiastes 9:4-6 " For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun. "

Answer 2

From the Greek: "thanatos"

1) the death of the body
1a) that separation (whether natural or violent) of the soul and
the body by which the life on earth is ended
1b) with the implied idea of future misery in hell
1b1) the power of death
1c) since the nether world, the abode of the dead, was conceived as
being very dark, it is equivalent to the region of thickest
darkness i.e. figuratively, a region enveloped in the darkness
of ignorance and sin
2) metaph., the loss of that life which alone is worthy of the name,
2a) the misery of the soul arising from sin, which begins on earth
but lasts and increases after the death of the body in hell
3) the miserable state of the wicked dead in hell
4) in the widest sense, death comprising all the miseries
arising from sin, as well physical death as the loss of a life
consecrated to God and blessed in him on earth, to be followed
by wretchedness in hell

Answer 3

The cessation of all functions of life, hence, the opposite of life. (De 30:15, 19) In the Bible the same original-language words for “death” or “dying” are applied to humans, animals, and plants.

Answer 4

Separation.

Answer 5

There is the first death which is the death of the body. And there is the second death which is the death of the soul . ..

LOVE your neighbor as yourself.
Amen.

Answer 6

separation from God

Answer 7

θάνατος:
thantos:
Greek word for death

Answer 8

Die-to cease living
Dead-without (spiritual or physycal) life
Death-cessation of (spiritual or physycal) life

Answer 9

I assume you mean dying to flesh?