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 certain 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 answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be 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 will rise again.Mark 5:23 · ζήσῃ.¶And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: [I pray thee], come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.Mark 12:27 · ζώντων·He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.Luke 2:36 · ζήσασαAnd there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;Luke 4:4 · ζήσεταιAnd Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.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 wasted his substance with riotous living.Luke 15:32 · ἔζησεν,It was meet that we should 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.¶For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.Luke 24:5 · ζῶνταAnd as they were afraid, 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, which 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: from whence then hast thou that living water?John 4:50 · ζῇ.Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.John 4:51 · ζῇ.And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told [him], saying, Thy son liveth.John 4:53 · ζῇ.So the father knew that [it was] at the same hour, in the 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 is coming, 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 from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.John 6:57 · ζῶν · ζῶ · ζήσειAs the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.John 6:58 · ζήσειThis is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.John 7:38 · ζῶντος.He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.John 11:25 · ζήσεται,Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:John 11:26 · ζῶνAnd whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?John 14:19 · ζῶ, · ζήσετε.Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.Acts 1:3 · ζῶνταTo whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:Acts 7:38 · ζῶνταThis is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and [with] our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:Acts 9:41 · ζῶσαν.And he gave her [his] hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.Acts 10:42 · ζώντωνAnd he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God [to be] the Judge of quick and dead.Acts 14:15 · ζῶντα,And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:Acts 17:28 · ζῶμενFor in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.Acts 20:12 · ζῶνταAnd they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.Acts 22:22 · ζῆν.And they gave him audience unto this word, and [then] lifted up their voices, 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 superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.Acts 25:24 · ζῆνAnd Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and [also] here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.Acts 26:5 · ἔζησαWhich knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.Acts 28:4 · ζῆνAnd when the barbarians saw the [venomous] beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.Romans 1:17 · ζήσεται.¶For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.Romans 6:2 · ζήσομενGod forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?Romans 6:10 · ζῇ, · ζῇFor in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.Romans 6:11 · ζῶνταςLikewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.Romans 6:13 · ζῶνταςNeither yield ye your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.Romans 7:1 · ζῇ;Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?Romans 7:2 · ζῶντιFor the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband.Romans 7:3 · ζῶντοςSo then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.Romans 7:9 · ἔζωνFor I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.Romans 8:12 · ζῆν·Therefore, 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 shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.Romans 9:26 · ζῶντος.And it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.Romans 10:5 · ζήσεταιFor Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.Romans 12:1 · ζῶσανI beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.Romans 14:7 · ζῇFor none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.Romans 14:8 · ζῶμεν, · ζῶμεν, · ζῶμεν,For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and 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 both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.Romans 14:11 · ζῶFor it is written, [As] I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.1 Corinthians 7:39 · ζῇThe wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.1 Corinthians 9:14 · ζῆν.Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.1 Corinthians 15:45 · ζῶσαν·And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a quickening spirit.2 Corinthians 1:8 · ζῆν·For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:2 Corinthians 3:3 · ζῶντος,[Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the 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 fleshy tables of the heart.2 Corinthians 4:11 · ζῶντεςFor we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.2 Corinthians 5:15 · ζῶντες · ζῶσινAnd [that] he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, 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 the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath 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 though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by 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 Peter before [them] all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?Galatians 2:19 · ζήσω.For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.Galatians 2:20 · ζῶ · ζῇ · ζῶ · ζῶI am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.Galatians 3:11 · ζήσεται·But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith.Galatians 3:12 · ζήσεταιAnd the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.Galatians 5:25 · ζῶμενIf we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.Philippians 1:21 · ζῆνFor to me to live [is] Christ, and to die [is] gain.Philippians 1:22 · ζῆνBut if I live in the flesh, this [is] the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.Colossians 2:20 · ζῶντεςWherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,Colossians 3:7 · ἐζῆτεIn the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.1 Thessalonians 1:9 · ζῶντιFor they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the 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 which are alive [and] remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.1 Thessalonians 4:17 · ζῶντεςThen we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them 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 thou oughtest to behave thyself 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 therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.1 Timothy 5:6 · ζῶσαBut she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.2 Timothy 3:12 · ζῆνYea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.2 Timothy 4:1 · ζῶνταςI charge [thee] therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;Titus 2:12 · ζήσωμενTeaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;Hebrews 2:15 · ζῆνAnd deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.Hebrews 3:12 · ζῶντος·Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.Hebrews 4:12 · ζῶνFor the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.Hebrews 7:8 · ζῇ.And here men that die receive tithes; but there he [receiveth them], of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.Hebrews 7:25 · ζῶνWherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by 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 spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?Hebrews 9:17 · ζῇFor a testament [is] of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.Hebrews 10:20 · ζῶσανBy a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, 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·Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.Hebrews 12:9 · ζήσομεν;Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [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 Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,James 4:15 · ζήσομενFor that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.1 Peter 1:3 · ζῶσανBlessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,1 Peter 1:23 · ζῶντοςBeing born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.1 Peter 2:4 · ζῶντα,To whom coming, [as unto] a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, [and] precious,1 Peter 2:5 · ζῶντεςYe also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.1 Peter 2:24 · ζήσωμεν·Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should 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 quick and the dead.1 Peter 4:6 · ζῶσινFor for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.1 John 4:9 · ζήσωμενIn this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.Revelation 1:18 · ζῶν, · ζῶν[I am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.Revelation 2:8 · ἔζησεν·And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;Revelation 3:1 · ζῇςAnd unto 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 art dead.Revelation 4:9 · ζῶντιAnd when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,Revelation 4:10 · ζῶντιThe four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,Revelation 7:2 · ζῶντος.And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud 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 heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:Revelation 13:14 · ἔζησεν.And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by [the means of] those miracles which he had power 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, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.Revelation 15:7 · ζῶντοςAnd one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials 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 miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning 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 were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received [his] mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.Revelation 20:5 · ἔζησανBut the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This [is] the first resurrection.