Featured τελευταω occurs 12 times.

In Matthew 9:18 it is "even now dead" versus "even now dies." In Acts of the Apostles 7:15 is "Jacob
went down into Egypt, and died" versus "Jacob went down into Egypt, and dies."
The same Greek verb and tense translated two different ways "dead" and "died" or in one way "dies" and "dies."

 

And what has that to do with the little girl not having been dead?

 

Maybe not for that Greek verb. In that tense that verb is only used twice in the whole New Testament. And it makes sense in English translated as I showed.

 

What has that to do with the little girl who was not really dead?

 

That it is in the aorist tense is not in dispute. How that Greek word should be rendered is, I think in question. It was not mearly that word but the adverb used before it too.
αρτι ετελευτησεν. And the fact the Mark used εχει where Luke used απεθνησκεν. Three different translations into the Greek from the Aramaic or Hebrew which was spoken.
Gill writes regading Matthews use of the adverb to mean near being dead. ". . . Her case seems to be differently represented; Mark says, she was "at the point of death", or "in the last extremity"; and Luke, that she "lay dying": but Matthew here says, that she was "even now dead", which may be easily reconciled: for not to observe, that αρτι signifies "near", and the phrase may be rendered, "she is near dead", or just expiring, the case was this; when Jairus left his house, his daughter was in the agony of death, just ready to give up the ghost; so, that he concluded, by the time he was with Jesus, she had made her exit; as it appears she had, by a messenger, who brought the account of her death, before they could get to the house." Maybe the adverb translated "even now" should be translated differnently not the verb. ". . . near dead."

 

Jesus explicitly said she was not dead. As pointed out all three accounts say this.

 

The point being I think that verb can be translated the same being the same tense in both Matthew 9:18 and Acts of the Apostles 7:15.
And also the meaning used by Matthew 9:18, Mark 5:24 and Luke 8:42 can be translated to be similar even thought the three writers use of different Greek words to translate the common phrase used by Jairus.

 

You are supposing a non-existent problem. You think because the pasage in Matthew 11:5, says ". . . the dead{plural} are raised up . . ." are not identified there is a truth problem.

 

Jesus was tell the others she was not dead. If perchance He had brought the girl from the dead it would be prior to Him telling them that she is not dead.

 

@John of Japan,
What drove this were a number of things.
The Matthew translation to the Greek to English, "even now dead." Where Mark's Greek to English, "at the point of death." And Luke 8:42, Greek to English, "lay a dying." In Acts 7:15, regarding Jacob, "died" being the very word Matthew used. Gill thinks the adverb for "even now" better rendered "near." "Near dead."

 

I have seen news paper obituaries where "dies" is used in the past tense. Truthfully "dies" as I proposed using it and as used in the seen obituaries is not found standard dictionaries. Maybe Gill's "near" for the adverb is the better solution. I do think the common translation topically being used in Matthew 9:18 is an error.

 

https://www.google.com/search?clien...obituaries+newspapers+"dies"&aqs=heirloom-srp..