νέκρωσις, νεκρωσεως, ἡ (νεκρόω); 1. properly, a putting to death (Vulg.mortificatio in 2 Corinthians 4:10), killing. 2. equivalent to τόνεκρουσθαι (the being put to death), with τοῦἸησοῦ added, i. e. the (protracted) death (A. V.the dying) which Jesus underwent in God's service (on the genitive cf. Winer's Grammar, 189 (178) note), Paul so styles the marks of perpetual trials, misfortunes, hardships attended with peril of death, evident in his body (cf. Meyer), 2 Corinthians 4:10. 3. equivalent to τόνενεκρωμένονεἶναι, the dead state (A. V. deadness), utter sluggishness (of bodily members and organs, Galen): Romans 4:19.