 Well, it has a variety of meanings, depending upon its context. It can be employed in a sense of one's manner of life, his behavior. Romans 6, verse 2, Paul mentions that if you're dead to sin, you should no longer live in it. Spiritually, it can suggest the deliverance from sin, in a contemporary sense. Rise to walk in a newness of life. Or it can denote an abiding relationship with God beyond death, in contrast to eternal death. Revelation 20 says,