ζάω, -ῶ, [in LXX chiefly for חיה (most frequently ptcp., ζῶν, inf., ζῆν, for חַי ;] 1. prop., to live, be alive (see Syn., see word βίος; in cl. usually of animal life, but sometimes of plants, as Arist., Eth. N, i, 7, 12): Act.20:12, Rom.7:1-3, 1Co.7:39, Rev.19:20, al.; ἐν αὐτῷ ζῶμεν, Act.17:28; ἐμοὶ τὸ ζῆν Χριστός, Php.1:21; διὰ παντὸς τοῦ ζῆν (M, Pr., 215, 249), Heb.2:15; ὃ δὲ νῦν ζῶ ἐν σαρκί, Gal.2:20; ζῇ ἐν ἐμοὶ Χριστός, Gal.2:20; (ὁ) ζῶν, of God (אֵל חַי and cognate phrases, Jos.3:10, Hos.2:1 (1:10), Isa.37:4, al.; see DCG, ii, 39a), Mat.16:16, Jhn.6:57, Rom.9:26, 1Th.1:9, Heb.3:12, Rev.7:2, al.; in juristic phrase, ζῶ ἐγώ (חַי־אָנִי, Num.14:21, al.), as I live, Rom.14:11; ζῆν ἐπ᾽ ἄρτῳ, Mat.4:4, al.; ἐκ, 1Co.9:14; of coming to life, Mrk.16:[11], Rom.6:10 14:9, 2Co.13:4; opposite to νεκρός, Rev.1:18 2:8; metaphorically, Luk.15:32; ζῆν ἐκ νεκρῶν, Rom.6:13; of the spiritual life of Christians, Luk.10:28, Jhn.5:25, Rom.1:17 8:13; εἰς τ. αἰῶνα, Jhn.6:51, 58; σὺν Χριστῷ, 1Th.5:10; ὄνομα ἔχεις ὅτι ζῇς, Rev.3:1. 2. As sometimes in cl., = βιόω, to live, pass one's life: Luk.2:36, Act.26:5, Rom.7:9, Col.2:20; ἐν πίστει, Gal.2:20; ἐν τ. ἁμαρτίᾳ, Rom.6:2; εὐσεβῶς, 2Ti.3:12; ἀσώτως, Luk.15:13; with dative (cl.), ἑαυτῳ (Field, Notes, 164), Rom.14:7, 2Co.5:15; τ. δικαιοσύνῃ, Luk.20:38, Rom.6:10, 11 Gal.2:19; τ. Χριστῷ, 2Co.5:15; τ. θεῷ, 1Pe.2:24; πνεύματι, Gal.5:25; κατὰ σάρκα, Rom.8:12, 13; 3. Of inanimate things, metaphorically: ὕδωρ ζῶν (i.e. springing water, as opposite to still water), in a spiritual sense, Jhn.4:10, 11 7:38 (DCG, ii, 39f.): ἐλπὶς ζῶσα, 1Pe.1:3; ὁδὸς ζῶσα, Heb.10:20 (cf. ἀνα-, συν-ζάω; Cremer, 270, 721). (AS)
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G2198 — ζάω
zaō · to live · Greek
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Matthew 4:4 · ζήσεταιBut he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.Matthew 9:18 · ζήσεται.While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.Matthew 16:16 · ζῶντος.¶And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.Matthew 22:32 · ζώντων.¶I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.Matthew 26:63 · ζῶντοςBut Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou art the Christ, the Son of God.Matthew 27:63 · ζῶν·saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said while he was yet alive, After three days I rise again.Mark 5:23 · ζήσῃ.¶and beseecheth him much, saying, My little daughter is at the point of death: I pray thee, that thou come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be made whole, and live.Mark 12:27 · ζώντων·He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: ye do greatly err.Luke 2:36 · ζήσασαAnd there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,Luke 4:4 · ζήσεταιAnd Jesus answered unto him, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone.Luke 10:28 · ζήσῃ.¶And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.Luke 15:13 · ζῶνAnd not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living.Luke 15:32 · ἔζησεν,But it was meet to make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.Luke 20:38 · ζώντων· · ζῶσιν.¶Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.Luke 24:5 · ζῶνταand as they were affrighted and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?Luke 24:23 · ζῆν.and when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.John 4:10 · ζῶν.Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.John 4:11 · ζῶν;The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou that living water?John 4:50 · ζῇ.Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. The man believed the word that Jesus spake unto him, and he went his way.John 4:51 · ζῇ.And as he was now going down, his servants met him, saying, that his son lived.John 4:53 · ζῇ.So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.John 5:25 · ζήσουσιν.¶Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live.John 6:51 · ζῶν · ζήσειI am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.John 6:57 · ζῶν · ζῶ · ζήσειAs the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me.John 6:58 · ζήσειThis is the bread which came down out of heaven: not as the fathers ate, and died; he that eateth this bread shall live for ever.John 7:38 · ζῶντος.He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, from within him shall flow rivers of living water.John 11:25 · ζήσεται,Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live;John 11:26 · ζῶνand whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die. Believest thou this?John 14:19 · ζῶ, · ζήσετε.Yet a little while, and the world beholdeth me no more; but ye behold me: because I live, ye shall live also.Acts 1:3 · ζῶνταto whom he also showed himself alive after his passion by many proofs, appearing unto them by the space of forty days, and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God:Acts 7:38 · ζῶνταThis is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel that spake to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received living oracles to give unto us:Acts 9:41 · ζῶσαν.And he gave her his hand, and raised her up; and calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.Acts 10:42 · ζώντωνAnd he charged us to preach unto the people, and to testify that this is he who is ordained of God to be the Judge of the living and the dead.Acts 14:15 · ζῶντα,and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good tidings, that ye should turn from these vain things unto a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is:Acts 17:28 · ζῶμενfor in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said,For we are also his offspring.Acts 20:12 · ζῶνταAnd they brought the lad alive, and were not a little comforted.Acts 22:22 · ζῆν.And they gave him audience unto this word; and they lifted up their voice, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.Acts 25:19 · ζῆν.but had certain questions against him of their own religion, and of one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.Acts 25:24 · ζῆνAnd Festus saith, King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, ye behold this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews made suit to me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.Acts 26:5 · ἔζησαhaving knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to testify, that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.Acts 28:4 · ζῆνAnd when the barbarians saw the venomous creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped from the sea, yet Justice hath not suffered to live.Romans 1:17 · ζήσεται.¶For therein is revealed a righteousness of God from faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith.Romans 6:2 · ζήσομενGod forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?Romans 6:10 · ζῇ, · ζῇFor the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.Romans 6:11 · ζῶνταςEven so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.Romans 6:13 · ζῶνταςneither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.Romans 7:1 · ζῇ;Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth?Romans 7:2 · ζῶντιFor the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.Romans 7:3 · ζῶντοςSo then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.Romans 7:9 · ἔζωνAnd I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;Romans 8:12 · ζῆν·So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:Romans 8:13 · ζῆτε, · ζήσεσθε.for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.Romans 9:26 · ζῶντος.And it shall be, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, There shall they be called sons of the living God.Romans 10:5 · ζήσεταιFor Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righteousness which is of the law shall live thereby.Romans 12:1 · ζῶσανI beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.Romans 14:7 · ζῇFor none of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to himself.Romans 14:8 · ζῶμεν, · ζῶμεν, · ζῶμεν,For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.Romans 14:9 · ἔζησεν, · ζώντωνFor to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.Romans 14:11 · ζῶFor it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, And every tongue shall confess to God.1 Corinthians 7:39 · ζῇA wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.1 Corinthians 9:14 · ζῆν.Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.1 Corinthians 15:45 · ζῶσαν·So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.2 Corinthians 1:8 · ζῆν·For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:2 Corinthians 3:3 · ζῶντος,being made manifest that ye are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in tables that are hearts of flesh.2 Corinthians 4:11 · ζῶντεςFor we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.2 Corinthians 5:15 · ζῶντες · ζῶσινand he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.2 Corinthians 6:9 · ζῶμεν,as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;2 Corinthians 6:16 · ζῶντος,And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.2 Corinthians 13:4 · ζῇ · ζήσομενfor he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him through the power of God toward you.Galatians 2:14 · ζῇς,But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?Galatians 2:19 · ζήσω.For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.Galatians 2:20 · ζῶ · ζῇ · ζῶ · ζῶI have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.Galatians 3:11 · ζήσεται·Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;Galatians 3:12 · ζήσεταιand the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them.Galatians 5:25 · ζῶμενIf we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.Philippians 1:21 · ζῆνFor to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.Philippians 1:22 · ζῆνBut if to live in the flesh,—if this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not.Colossians 2:20 · ζῶντεςIf ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,Colossians 3:7 · ἐζῆτεwherein ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things;1 Thessalonians 1:9 · ζῶντιFor they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God,1 Thessalonians 3:8 · ζῶμεν,for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.1 Thessalonians 4:15 · ζῶντεςFor this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.1 Thessalonians 4:17 · ζῶντεςthen we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.1 Thessalonians 5:10 · ζήσωμεν.¶who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.1 Timothy 3:15 · ζῶντος,but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.1 Timothy 4:10 · ζῶντι,For to this end we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of them that believe.1 Timothy 5:6 · ζῶσαBut she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.2 Timothy 3:12 · ζῆνYea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.2 Timothy 4:1 · ζῶνταςI charge thee in the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:Titus 2:12 · ζήσωμενinstructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;Hebrews 2:15 · ζῆνand might deliver all them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.Hebrews 3:12 · ζῶντος·Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:Hebrews 4:12 · ζῶνFor the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.Hebrews 7:8 · ζῇ.And here men that die receive tithes; but there one, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.Hebrews 7:25 · ζῶνWherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.Hebrews 9:14 · ζῶντι;¶how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?Hebrews 9:17 · ζῇFor a testament is of force where there hath been death: for it doth never avail while he that made it liveth.Hebrews 10:20 · ζῶσανby the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;Hebrews 10:31 · ζῶντος.¶It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.Hebrews 10:38 · ζήσεται·But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.Hebrews 12:9 · ζήσομεν;Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?Hebrews 12:22 · ζῶντος,but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,James 4:15 · ζήσομενFor that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.1 Peter 1:3 · ζῶσανBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,1 Peter 1:23 · ζῶντοςhaving been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.1 Peter 2:4 · ζῶντα,unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious,1 Peter 2:5 · ζῶντεςye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 2:24 · ζήσωμεν·who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.1 Peter 4:5 · ζῶνταςwho shall give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.1 Peter 4:6 · ζῶσινFor unto this end was the gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.1 John 4:9 · ζήσωμενHerein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.Revelation 1:18 · ζῶν, · ζῶνand the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.Revelation 2:8 · ἔζησεν·And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These things saith the first and the last, who was dead, and lived again:Revelation 3:1 · ζῇςAnd to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and thou art dead.Revelation 4:9 · ζῶντιAnd when the living creatures shall give glory and honor and thanks to him that sitteth on the throne, to him that liveth for ever and ever,Revelation 4:10 · ζῶντιthe four and twenty elders shall fall down before him that sitteth on the throne, and shall worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying,Revelation 7:2 · ζῶντος.And I saw another angel ascend from the sunrising, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a great voice to the four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,Revelation 10:6 · ζῶντιand sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created the heaven and the things that are therein, and the earth and the things that are therein, and the sea and the things that are therein, that there shall be delay no longer:Revelation 13:14 · ἔζησεν.And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who hath the stroke of the sword and lived.Revelation 15:7 · ζῶντοςAnd one of the four living creatures gave unto the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.Revelation 19:20 · ζῶντεςAnd the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone:Revelation 20:4 · ἔζησανAnd I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as worshipped not the beast, neither his image, and received not the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand; and they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.Revelation 20:5 · ἔζησανThe rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years should be finished. This is the first resurrection.