'Dead' in the Bible

And [when he] entered, he said to them, "Why are you agitated and weeping? The child is not dead, but is sleeping."

And King Herod heard [it], because his name had become known. And they were saying, "John, the one who baptizes, has been raised from the dead, and because of this these miraculous powers are at work in him."

And [as] they were coming down from the mountain, he ordered them that they should tell no one [the things] that they had seen, except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

And they kept the matter to themselves, discussing what this rising from the dead {meant}.

And it came out, screaming and convulsing [him] greatly, and he became as if [he were] dead, so that most [of them] said, "He has died!"

For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

Now concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses {in the passage about the bush} how God spoke to him, saying, 'I [am] the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob'?

He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are very much mistaken!"

And Pilate was surprised that he was already dead, and summoning the centurion, asked him whether he had died already.