Thanatos denotes death, including bodily mortality, a lethal or judicial outcome, and death set against life.

The noun most often names bodily death, mortality, or dying, whether suffered, avoided, announced, or overcome. It also occurs for a death-worthy sentence or a death-bound outcome, for death contrasted with life, and in passages that address death as an enemy or speak of a “second death.”

1. Bodily death, mortality, or dying · dominant

   The noun names death as the human condition or event: in Hebrews 11:5 the APB renders Enoch’s transport as preventing him from seeing death, while Hebrews 7:23 says death prevented the former priests from continuing. In John 12:33, the dative singular occurs in the clause indicating the kind of death he was going to die; 2 Corinthians 4:11 likewise places the accusative singular in being delivered to death.

   Hebrews 11:5Hebrews 7:23John 12:332 Corinthians 4:11Colossians 1:221 Corinthians 11:26
2. Death as a lethal or judicial outcome · common

   Several genitive singular forms occur in legal statements about being worthy or deserving of death: Acts 23:29, Acts 25:25, and Acts 28:18 all use that setting. The accusative singular also marks an outcome associated with sin in 1 John 5:16 and James 1:15; in James 1:15 the APB renders the clause as sin, once completed, bringing forth death.

   Acts 23:29Acts 25:25Acts 28:181 John 5:16James 1:152 Corinthians 7:10
3. Death contrasted with life · occasional

   In 1 John 3:14, genitive and dative singular forms frame a movement out from death into life and remaining in death; the contrast is tied in the verse to loving or not loving the brothers. John 5:24 similarly places death and life in a passing-from/into contrast, while 2 Corinthians 2:16 sets “from death to death” beside “from life to life” in the APB rendering.

   1 John 3:14John 5:242 Corinthians 2:162 Corinthians 4:12
4. Death addressed or depicted as an opposing power · rare

   The nominative singular is called the last enemy to be abolished in 1 Corinthians 15:26, and the vocative singular directly addresses death in 1 Corinthians 15:55. Revelation 20:14 depicts death, alongside Hades, being thrown into the lake of fire and identifies that scene as the second death.

   1 Corinthians 15:261 Corinthians 15:551 Corinthians 15:54Revelation 20:14Revelation 20:6Acts 2:24

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB generally presents the noun with “death,” including clauses about suffering, avoiding, or being worthy of it. In a few settings it expands the surrounding relation, such as “from death to life” in 1 John 3:14 and “the second death” in Revelation 20:14; These phrases describe the verse’s presentation rather than a fixed English equivalent for each form.