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, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”Matthew 9:18 · ζήσεται.While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”Matthew 16:16 · ζῶντος.¶Simon Peter answered, “You are 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. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”Matthew 27:63 · ζῶν·saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’Mark 5:23 · ζήσῃ.¶and begged him much, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live.”Mark 12:27 · ζώντων·He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken.”Luke 2:36 · ζήσασαThere 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 · ζήσεταιJesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”Luke 10:28 · ζήσῃ.¶He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”Luke 15:13 · ζῶνNot many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.Luke 15:32 · ἔζησεν,But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He 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 are alive to him.”Luke 24:5 · ζῶνταBecoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?Luke 24:23 · ζῆν.and when they didn’t find 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 her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”John 4:11 · ζῶν;The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?John 4:50 · ζῇ.Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.John 4:51 · ζῇ.As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”John 4:53 · ζῇ.So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house.John 5:25 · ζήσουσιν.¶Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.John 6:51 · ζῶν · ζήσειI am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”John 6:57 · ζῶν · ζῶ · ζήσειAs the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.John 6:58 · ζήσειThis is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”John 7:38 · ζῶντος.He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”John 11:25 · ζήσεται,Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.John 11:26 · ζῶνWhoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”John 14:19 · ζῶ, · ζήσετε.Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.Acts 1:3 · ζῶνταTo these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.Acts 7:38 · ζῶνταThis is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us,Acts 9:41 · ζῶσαν.He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.Acts 10:42 · ζώντωνHe commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.Acts 14:15 · ζῶντα,“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;Acts 17:28 · ζῶμεν‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’Acts 20:12 · ζῶνταThey brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.Acts 22:22 · ζῆν.They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, “Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn’t fit to live!”Acts 25:19 · ζῆν.but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.Acts 25:24 · ζῆνFestus said, “King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.Acts 26:5 · ἔζησαhaving known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.Acts 28:4 · ζῆνWhen the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”Romans 1:17 · ζήσεται.¶For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”Romans 6:2 · ζήσομενMay it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?Romans 6:10 · ζῇ, · ζῇFor the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.Romans 6:11 · ζῶνταςThus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.Romans 6:13 · ζῶνταςNeither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.Romans 7:1 · ζῇ;Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?Romans 7:2 · ζῶντιFor the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.Romans 7:3 · ζῶντοςSo then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.Romans 7:9 · ἔζωνI was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.Romans 8:12 · ζῆν·So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.Romans 8:13 · ζῆτε, · ζήσεσθε.For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.Romans 9:26 · ζῶντος.“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ There they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”Romans 10:5 · ζήσεταιFor Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”Romans 12:1 · ζῶσανTherefore I urge you, brothers, 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 lives to himself, and none dies to himself.Romans 14:8 · ζῶμεν, · ζῶμεν, · ζῶμεν,For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.Romans 14:9 · ἔζησεν, · ζώντωνFor to this end Christ died, rose, 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,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’”1 Corinthians 7:39 · ζῇA wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.1 Corinthians 9:14 · ζῆν.Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.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 don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.2 Corinthians 3:3 · ζῶντος,being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.2 Corinthians 4:11 · ζῶντεςFor we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.2 Corinthians 5:15 · ζῶντες · ζῶσινHe died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to 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 punished, and not killed;2 Corinthians 6:16 · ζῶντος,What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you 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 will be my people.”2 Corinthians 13:4 · ζῇ · ζήσομενFor he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.Galatians 2:14 · ζῇς,But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?Galatians 2:19 · ζήσω.For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.Galatians 2:20 · ζῶ · ζῇ · ζῶ · ζῶI have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith 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 will live by faith.”Galatians 3:12 · ζήσεταιThe law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”Galatians 5:25 · ζῶμενIf we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.Philippians 1:21 · ζῆνFor to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.Philippians 1:22 · ζῆνBut if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.Colossians 2:20 · ζῶντεςIf you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,Colossians 3:7 · ἐζῆτεYou also once walked in those, when you lived in them;1 Thessalonians 1:9 · ζῶντιFor they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,1 Thessalonians 3:8 · ζῶμεν,For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.1 Thessalonians 4:15 · ζῶντεςFor this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.1 Thessalonians 4:17 · ζῶντεςthen we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.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 wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.1 Timothy 4:10 · ζῶντι,For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.1 Timothy 5:6 · ζῶσαBut she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.2 Timothy 3:12 · ζῆνYes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.2 Timothy 4:1 · ζῶνταςI command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:Titus 2:12 · ζήσωμενinstructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;Hebrews 2:15 · ζῆνand might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.Hebrews 3:12 · ζῶντος·Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there 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 is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.Hebrews 7:8 · ζῇ.Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.Hebrews 7:25 · ζῶνTherefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.Hebrews 9:14 · ζῶντι;¶how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?Hebrews 9:17 · ζῇFor a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.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 the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”Hebrews 12:9 · ζήσομεν;Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?Hebrews 12:22 · ζῶντος,But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,James 4:15 · ζήσομενFor you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will 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 became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,1 Peter 1:23 · ζῶντοςhaving been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.1 Peter 2:4 · ζῶντα,coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.1 Peter 2:5 · ζῶντεςYou also, as living stones, are built up as 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 bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.1 Peter 4:5 · ζῶνταςwho will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.1 Peter 4:6 · ζῶσινFor to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.1 John 4:9 · ζήσωμενBy this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.Revelation 1:18 · ζῶν, · ζῶνand the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.Revelation 2:8 · ἔζησεν·“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:Revelation 3:1 · ζῇς“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.Revelation 4:9 · ζῶντιWhen the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever,Revelation 4:10 · ζῶντιthe twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,Revelation 7:2 · ζῶντος.I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea,Revelation 10:6 · ζῶντιand swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,Revelation 13:14 · ἔζησεν.He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.Revelation 15:7 · ζῶντοςOne of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.Revelation 19:20 · ζῶντεςThe beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.Revelation 20:4 · ἔζησανI saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.Revelation 20:5 · ἔζησανThe rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.