name Hades or Pluto, the god of the lower regions

Orcus, the nether world, the realm of the dead

later use of this word: the grave, death, hell

the death of the body

1. that separation (whether natural or violent) of the soul and the body by which the life on earth is ended

2. with the implied idea of future misery in hell

   1. the power of death

3. 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

metaph., the loss of that life which alone is worthy of the name,

1. 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

a sting, as that of bees, scorpions, locusts. Since animals wound by their sting and even cause death, Paul attributes death, personified as a sting, i.e. a deadly weapon

an iron goad, for urging on oxen, horses and other beasts of burden

1. hence the proverb, "to kick against the goad", i.e. to offer vain and perilous or ruinous resistance

victory

to utterly vanquish

this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than "the" counted

somewhere

nearly

with numerals: somewhere about, about

thy, thee

you