'Dead' in the Bible

And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,

teaching about baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith he still speaks, though he is dead.

So in fact children were fathered by one man -- and this one as good as dead -- like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.

and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.

Now may the God of peace who by the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ,