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from the dead

from the dead prepositional phrase: from being dead, from death.

Prepositional phrase

  1. from being dead, from death
    • 1987 June 27, Oral Roberts Tells Conference He Has Raised People From the Dead, New York Times
    • 2005 October 7, Back from the Dead, This American Life
  2. (figuratively) from obsolescence or failure
    • 2017 November 11, Investment Group Plans to Bring World Airways Back From the Dead, Skift
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see from, dead.

Origin of from the dead

A translation of Ancient Greek ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν (ek tôn nekrôn) or ἀπὸ τῶν νεκρῶν (apò tôn nekrôn, “from among those who are dead”), a phrase in the New Testament, used for instance in the King James Version. See rise from the dead.

Questions about from the dead

What does from the dead mean?
From the dead means from being dead, from death.
What part of speech is from the dead?
From the dead is a prepositional phrase.

Words near from the dead in the dictionary

  1. from start to finish
  2. from stem to stern
  3. from that time on
  4. from the bottom of one's heart
  5. from the cradle to the grave
  6. from the dead
  7. from the Department of the Bleeding Obvious
  8. from the East German judge
  9. from the face of the earth
  10. from the first
  11. from the gecko

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