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 answering said, ‘It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.’Matthew 9:18 · ζήσεται.While he is speaking these things to them, lo, a ruler having come, was bowing to him, saying that ‘My daughter just now died, but, having come, lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.’Matthew 16:16 · ζῶντος.¶and Simon Peter answering 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 a God of dead men, but of living.’Matthew 26:63 · ζῶντοςand Jesus was silent. And the chief priest answering said to him, ‘I adjure thee, by the living God, that thou mayest say to us, if thou art the Christ—the Son of God.’Matthew 27:63 · ζῶν·saying, ‘Sir, we have remembered that that deceiver said while yet living, After three days I do rise;Mark 5:23 · ζήσῃ.¶and he was calling upon him much, saying—‘My little daughter is at the last extremity—that having come, thou mayest lay on her thy hands, so that she may be saved, and she shall live;’Mark 12:27 · ζώντων·he is not the God of dead men, but a God of living men; ye then go greatly astray.’Luke 2:36 · ζήσασαAnd there was Anna, a prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, she was much advanced in days, having lived with an husband seven years from her virginity,Luke 4:4 · ζήσεταιAnd Jesus answered him, saying, ‘It hath been written, that, not on bread only shall man live, but on every saying of God.’Luke 10:28 · ζήσῃ.¶And he said to him, ‘Rightly thou didst answer; this do, and thou shalt live.’Luke 15:13 · ζῶν‘And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;Luke 15:32 · ἔζησεν,but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.’Luke 20:38 · ζώντων· · ζῶσιν.¶and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.’Luke 24:5 · ζῶνταand on their having become afraid, and having inclined the face to the earth, they said to them, ‘Why do ye seek the living with the dead?Luke 24:23 · ζῆν.and not having found his body, they came, saying also to have seen an apparition of messengers, who say he is alive,John 4:10 · ζῶν.Jesus answered and said to her, ‘If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.’John 4:11 · ζῶν;The woman saith to him, ‘Sir, thou hast not even a vessel to draw with, and the well is deep; whence, then, hast thou the living water?John 4:50 · ζῇ.Jesus saith to him, ‘Be going on; thy son doth live.’ And the man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and was going on,John 4:51 · ζῇ.and he now going down, his servants met him, and told, saying—‘Thy child doth live;’John 4:53 · ζῇ.then the father knew that it was in that hour in which Jesus said to him—‘Thy son doth live,’ and he himself believed, and his whole house;John 5:25 · ζήσουσιν.¶‘Verily, verily, I say to you—There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live;John 6:51 · ζῶν · ζήσει‘I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live—to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.’John 6:57 · ζῶν · ζῶ · ζήσει‘According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;John 6:58 · ζήσειthis is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live—to the age.’John 7:38 · ζῶντος.he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;’John 11:25 · ζήσεται,Jesus said to her, ‘I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;John 11:26 · ζῶνand every one who is living and believing in me shall not die—to the age;John 14:19 · ζῶ, · ζήσετε.yet a little, and the world doth no more behold me, and ye behold me, because I live, and ye shall live;Acts 1:3 · ζῶνταto whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.Acts 7:38 · ζῶντα‘This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the messenger who is speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who did receive the living oracles to give to us;Acts 9:41 · ζῶσαν.and having given her his hand, he lifted her up, and having called the saints and the widows, he presented her alive,Acts 10:42 · ζώντωνand he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify fully that it is he who hath been ordained by God judge of living and dead—Acts 14:15 · ζῶντα,and saying, ‘Men, why these things do ye? and we are men like-affected with you, proclaiming good news to you, from these vanities to turn unto the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them;Acts 17:28 · ζῶμενfor in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.Acts 20:12 · ζῶνταand they brought up the lad alive, and were comforted in no ordinary measure.Acts 22:22 · ζῆν.And they were hearing him unto this word, and they lifted up their voice, saying, ‘Away from the earth with such an one; for it is not fit for him to live.’Acts 25:19 · ζῆν.but certain questions concerning their own religion they had against him, and concerning a certain Jesus who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive;Acts 25:24 · ζῆνAnd Festus said, ‘King Agrippa, and all men who are present with us, ye see this one, about whom all the multitude of the Jews did deal with me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out, He ought not to live any longer;Acts 26:5 · ἔζησαknowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee;Acts 28:4 · ζῆνAnd when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said unto one another, ‘Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, having been saved out of the sea, the justice did not suffer to live;’Romans 1:17 · ζήσεται.¶For the righteousness of God in it is revealed from faith to faith, according as it hath been written, ‘And the righteous one by faith shall live,’Romans 6:2 · ζήσομενlet it not be! we who died to the sin—how shall we still live in it?Romans 6:10 · ζῇ, · ζῇfor in that he died, to the sin he died once, and in that he liveth, he liveth to God;Romans 6:11 · ζῶνταςso also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.Romans 6:13 · ζῶνταςneither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;Romans 7:1 · ζῇ;Are ye ignorant, brethren—for to those knowing law I speak—that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?Romans 7:2 · ζῶντιfor the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;Romans 7:3 · ζῶντοςso, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man’s; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man’s.Romans 7:9 · ἔζωνAnd I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;Romans 8:12 · ζῆν·So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;Romans 8:13 · ζῆτε, · ζήσεσθε.for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;Romans 9:26 · ζῶντος.and it shall be—in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.’Romans 10:5 · ζήσεταιfor Moses doth describe the righteousness that is of the law, that, ‘The man who did them shall live in them,’Romans 12:1 · ζῶσανI call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice—living, sanctified, acceptable to God—your intelligent service;Romans 14:7 · ζῇFor none of us to himself doth live, and none to himself doth die;Romans 14:8 · ζῶμεν, · ζῶμεν, · ζῶμεν,for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord’s;Romans 14:9 · ἔζησεν, · ζώντωνfor because of this Christ both died and rose again, and lived again, that both of dead and of living he may be Lord.Romans 14:11 · ζῶfor it hath been written, ‘I live! saith the Lord—to Me bow shall every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God;’1 Corinthians 7:39 · ζῇA wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will—only in the Lord;1 Corinthians 9:14 · ζῆν.so also did the Lord direct to those proclaiming the good news: of the good news to live.1 Corinthians 15:45 · ζῶσαν·so also it hath been written, ‘The first man Adam became a living creature,’ the last Adam is for a life-giving spirit,2 Corinthians 1:8 · ζῆν·For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above our power, so that we despaired even of life;2 Corinthians 3:3 · ζῶντος,manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,2 Corinthians 4:11 · ζῶντεςfor always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,2 Corinthians 5:15 · ζῶντες · ζῶσινand for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.2 Corinthians 6:9 · ζῶμεν,as unknown, and recognized; as dying, and lo, we live; as chastened, and not put to death;2 Corinthians 6:16 · ζῶντος,and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said—‘I will dwell in them, and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,2 Corinthians 13:4 · ζῇ · ζήσομενfor even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.Galatians 2:14 · ζῇς,But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, ‘If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?Galatians 2:19 · ζήσω.for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;Galatians 2:20 · ζῶ · ζῇ · ζῶ · ζῶwith Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh—in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;Galatians 3:11 · ζήσεται·and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because ‘The righteous by faith shall live;’Galatians 3:12 · ζήσεταιand the law is not by faith, but—‘The man who did them shall live in them.’Galatians 5:25 · ζῶμενif we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;Philippians 1:21 · ζῆνfor to me to live is Christ, and to die gain.Philippians 1:22 · ζῆνAnd if to live in the flesh is to me a fruit of work, then what shall I choose? I know not;Colossians 2:20 · ζῶντεςIf, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?Colossians 3:7 · ἐζῆτεin which also ye—ye did walk once, when ye lived in them;1 Thessalonians 1:9 · ζῶντιfor they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God,1 Thessalonians 3:8 · ζῶμεν,because now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord;1 Thessalonians 4:15 · ζῶντεςfor this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living—who do remain over to the presence of the Lord—may not precede those asleep,1 Thessalonians 4:17 · ζῶντεςthen we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;1 Thessalonians 5:10 · ζήσωμεν.¶who did die for us, that whether we wake—whether we sleep—together with him we may live;1 Timothy 3:15 · ζῶντος,and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth thee to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God—a pillar and foundation of the truth,1 Timothy 4:10 · ζῶντι,for for this we both labour and are reproached, because we hope on the living God, who is Saviour of all men—especially of those believing.1 Timothy 5:6 · ζῶσαand she who is given to luxury, living—hath died;2 Timothy 3:12 · ζῆνand all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,2 Timothy 4:1 · ζῶνταςI do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge living and dead at his manifestation and his reign—Titus 2:12 · ζήσωμενteaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,Hebrews 2:15 · ζῆνand might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage,Hebrews 3:12 · ζῶντος·See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,Hebrews 4:12 · ζῶνfor the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;Hebrews 7:8 · ζῇ.and here, indeed, men who die do receive tithes, and there he, who is testified to that he was living,Hebrews 7:25 · ζῶνwhence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God—ever living to make intercession for them.Hebrews 9:14 · ζῶντι;¶how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?Hebrews 9:17 · ζῇfor a covenant over dead victims is stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,Hebrews 10:20 · ζῶσανwhich way he did initiate for us—new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh—Hebrews 10:31 · ζῶντος.¶fearful is the falling into the hands of a living God.Hebrews 10:38 · ζήσεται·and ‘the righteous by faith shall live,’ and ‘if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,’Hebrews 12:9 · ζήσομεν;Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising us, and we were reverencing them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?Hebrews 12:22 · ζῶντος,But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,James 4:15 · ζήσομενinstead of your saying, ‘If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;’1 Peter 1:3 · ζῶσανBlessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,1 Peter 1:23 · ζῶντοςbeing begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God—living and remaining—to the age;1 Peter 2:4 · ζῶντα,to whom coming—a living stone—by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious,1 Peter 2:5 · ζῶντεςand ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 2:24 · ζήσωμεν·who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,1 Peter 4:5 · ζῶνταςwho shall give an account to Him who is ready to judge living and dead,1 Peter 4:6 · ζῶσινfor for this also to dead men was good news proclaimed, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.1 John 4:9 · ζήσωμενIn this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son—the only begotten—hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;Revelation 1:18 · ζῶν, · ζῶνand he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.Revelation 2:8 · ἔζησεν·‘And to the messenger of the assembly of the Smyrneans write: These things saith the First and the Last, who did become dead and did live;Revelation 3:1 · ζῇςAnd to the messenger of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he who is having the Seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I have known thy works, and that thou hast the name that thou dost live, and thou art dead;Revelation 4:9 · ζῶντιand when the living creatures do give glory, and honour, and thanks, to Him who is sitting upon the throne, who is living to the ages of the ages,Revelation 4:10 · ζῶντιfall down do the twenty and four elders before Him who is sitting upon the throne, and bow before Him who is living to the ages of the ages, and they cast their crowns before the throne, saying,Revelation 7:2 · ζῶντος.and I saw another messenger going up from the rising of the sun, having a seal of the living God, and he did cry with a great voice to the four messengers, to whom it was given to injure the land and the sea, saying,Revelation 10:6 · ζῶντιand did swear in Him who doth live to the ages of the ages, who did create the heaven and the things in it, and the land and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it—that time shall not be yet,Revelation 13:14 · ἔζησεν.and it leadeth astray those dwelling on the land, because of the signs that were given it to do before the beast, saying to those dwelling upon the land to make an image to the beast that hath the stroke of the sword and did live,Revelation 15:7 · ζῶντοςand one of the four living creatures did give to the seven messengers seven golden vials, full of the wrath of God, who is living to the ages of the ages;Revelation 19:20 · ζῶντεςand the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who did receive the mark of the beast, and those who did bow before his image; living they were cast—the two—to the lake of the fire, that is burning with brimstone;Revelation 20:4 · ἔζησανAnd I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand years;Revelation 20:5 · ἔζησανand the rest of the dead did not live again till the thousand years may be finished; this is the first rising again.