{"def":{"short":"(properly, an adjective used as a noun) death (literally or figuratively)","long":["the death of the body",["that separation (whether natural or violent) of the soul and the body by which the life on earth is ended","with the implied idea of future misery in hell",["the power of death"],"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"],"metaphorically, the loss of that life which alone is worthy of the name,",["the misery of the soul arising from sin, which begins on earth but lasts and increases after the death of the body in hell"],"the miserable state of the wicked dead in hell","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"]},"deriv":"from G2348","pronun":{"ipa":"ˈθɑ.nɑ.tos","ipa_mod":"ˈθɑ.nɑ.tows","sbl":"thanatos","dic":"THA-na-tose","dic_mod":"THA-na-tose"},"see":["G2348"]}