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International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Deadly:

ded'-li: In the Old Testament two words are used in the sense of a "mortal (Hebrew nephesh, "hateful," "foul") enemy" (Ps 17:9), and in the sense of "fatal disease," the destructiveness of which causes a general panic (Hebrew maweth, "death," 1Sa 5:11).

In the New Testament we have in Re 13:3,12 the expression "deadly wound" (Greek thanatos), better "death-stroke," as in the Revised Version (British and American), and the phrases "deadly thing," i.e. poison (thanasimon ti, Mr 16:18), and "full of deadly poison" (meste iou thanatephorou, Jas 3:8), said of an unruly tongue. Both Greek words convey the idea of "causing or bringing death" and occur in classical literature in a variety of uses in combination with the bite of venomous reptiles, deadly potions, mortal wounds and fatal contagion.

Written by H. L. E. Luering

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Deadly:

lit., "death-bearing, deadly" (thanatos, "death," phero, "to bear"), is used in Jam 3:8. In the Sept., Num 18:22; Job 33:23.

Deadly:

from thanatos (see No. 1), "belonging to death, or partaking of the nature of death," is used in Mar 16:18.