'Dead' in the Bible

Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of the Christ, let us go on to what belongs to full growth, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God,

of the doctrine of washings, and of imposition of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment;

how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship the living God?

For a testament is of force when men are dead, since it is in no way of force while the testator is alive.)

Wherefore also there have been born of one, and that of one become dead, even as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the countless sand which is by the sea shore.

counting that God was able to raise him even from among the dead, whence also he received him in a figure.

Women received their dead again by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, that they might get a better resurrection;

But the God of peace, who brought again from among the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, in the power of the blood of the eternal covenant,