ζωή, -ῆς, ἡ (ζάω), [in LXX chiefly for חַיִּים ;] life (in Hom., Hdt., = βίος, which see; later, existence, vita quâ vivimus, as distinct from βίος, vita quam vivimus; opposite to θάνατος); 1. of natural life: Luk.16:25, Act.8:33, 1Co.15:19, 1Ti.4:8, Heb.7:3, Jas.4:14; πνεῦμα ζωῆς, Rev.11:11; ψυχὴ ζωῆς ( Gen.1:30), Rev.16:3; of the life of one risen from the dead, Rom.5:10, Heb.7:16. 2. Of the life of the kingdom of God, the present life of grace and the life of glory which is to follow (Dalman, Words, 156ff.; Westc, Epp. Jo., 214ff.; Cremer, 272ff.): Jhn.6:51, 53 Rom.7:10 8:6, 10 Php.2:16, Col.3:4, 2Pe.1:3; αἰώνος (reff. supr.; DCG, i, 538a, ii, 30f.), Jhn.4:36 12:50 17:3, 1Jn.1:2, al.; τ. φῶς τῆς ζ., Jhn.8:12; ὁ Λόγος τ. ζ., 1Jn.1:1; ὁ ἄρτος τ. ζ., Jo 6:35, 48; δικαίωσις ζωῆς, Rom.5:18; μετάνοια εἰς ζ., Act.11:18; ἐν αὐτῷ ζ. ἦν, Jhn.1:4; ζ. ἡ ἐν. Χ. Ἰ., 2Ti.1:1; τὰ πρὸς ζωήν, 2Pe.1:3, al.; στέφανος τῆς ζ., Jas.1:12, Rev.2:10; χάρις ζωῆς (genitive expl.), 1Pe.3:7; ζ. καὶ εἰρήνη, Rom.8:6; ζ. καὶ ἀφθαρσία, 2Ti.1:10; ἀνάστασις ζωῆς, Jhn.5:29; βίβλος ζωῆς, Php.4:3, Rev.3:5; ξύλον ζωῆς, Rev.2:7; ὕδωρ ζωῆς, Rev.22:17; meton., of that which has life: τ. πνεῦμα, Rom.8:10; ῥήματα, Jhn.6:63; of one who gives life, Jhn.11:25 14:6, 1Jn.1:2; ἡ ἐντολή, Jhn.12:50. SYN.: see: βίος. (AS)
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G2222 — ζωή
zōē · life · Greek
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Matthew 7:14 · ζωήν,how strait is the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!Matthew 18:8 · ζωὴν‘And if thy hand or thy foot doth cause thee to stumble, cut them off and cast from thee; it is good for thee to enter into the life lame or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be cast to the fire the age-during.Matthew 18:9 · ζωὴν‘And if thine eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee; it is good for thee one-eyed to enter into the life, rather than having two eyes to be cast to the gehenna of the fire.Matthew 19:16 · ζωὴνAnd lo, one having come near, said to him, ‘Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have life age-during?’Matthew 19:17 · ζωὴνAnd he said to him, ‘Why me dost thou call good? no one is good except One—God; but if thou dost will to enter into the life, keep the commands.’Matthew 19:29 · ζωὴνand every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name’s sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;Matthew 25:46 · ζωὴνAnd these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.’Mark 9:43 · ζωὴν‘And if thy hand may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee maimed to enter into the life, than having the two hands, to go away to the gehenna, to the fire—the unquenchable—Mark 9:45 · ζωὴν‘And if thy foot may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into the life lame, than having the two feet to be cast to the gehenna, to the fire—the unquenchable—Mark 10:17 · ζωὴνAnd as he is going forth into the way, one having run and having kneeled to him, was questioning him, ‘Good teacher, what may I do, that life age-during I may inherit?’Mark 10:30 · ζωὴνwho may not receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and fields, with persecutions, and in the age that is coming, life age-during;Luke 10:25 · ζωὴνAnd lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, ‘Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?’Luke 12:15 · ζωὴAnd he said unto them, ‘Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one’s goods is his life.’Luke 16:25 · ζωῇ‘And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive—thou—thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;Luke 18:18 · ζωὴνAnd a certain ruler questioned him, saying, ‘Good teacher, what having done—shall I inherit life age-during?’Luke 18:30 · ζωὴνwho may not receive back manifold more in this time, and in the coming age, life age-during.’John 1:4 · ζωὴ · ζωὴIn him was life, and the life was the light of men,John 3:15 · ζωὴνthat every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during,John 3:16 · ζωὴνfor God did so love the world, that His Son—the only begotten—He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.John 3:36 · ζωὴν · ζωήν,he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.’John 4:14 · ζωὴνbut whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst—to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.’John 4:36 · ζωὴν‘And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;John 5:24 · ζωὴν · ζωήν.¶‘Verily, verily, I say to you—He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.John 5:26 · ζωὴν · ζωὴνfor, as the Father hath life in himself, so He gave also to the Son to have life in himself,John 5:29 · ζωῆς,and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment.John 5:39 · ζωὴν‘Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;John 5:40 · ζωὴνand ye do not will to come unto me, that ye may have life;John 6:27 · ζωὴνwork not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal—even God.’John 6:33 · ζωὴνfor the bread of God is that which is coming down out of the heaven, and giving life to the world.’John 6:35 · ζωῆς·And Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst—at any time;John 6:40 · ζωὴνand this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.’John 6:47 · ζωὴν‘Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is believing in me, hath life age-during;John 6:48 · ζωῆς.I am the bread of the life;John 6:51 · ζωῆς.¶‘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 6:53 · ζωὴνJesus, therefore, said to them, ‘Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves;John 6:54 · ζωὴνhe who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day;John 6:63 · ζωήthe spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;John 6:68 · ζωῆςSimon Peter, therefore, answered him, ‘Sir, unto whom shall we go? thou hast sayings of life age-during;John 8:12 · ζωῆς.¶Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, ‘I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.’John 10:10 · ζωὴνThe thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.John 10:28 · ζωὴνand life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish—to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand;John 11:25 · ζωή·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 12:25 · ζωὴνhe who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world—to life age-during shall keep it;John 12:50 · ζωὴand I have known that His command is life age-during; what, therefore, I speak, according as the Father hath said to me, so I speak.’John 14:6 · ζωή.Jesus saith to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;John 17:2 · ζωὴνaccording as Thou didst give to him authority over all flesh, that—all that Thou hast given to him—he may give to them life age-during;John 17:3 · ζωὴand this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send—Jesus Christ;John 20:31 · ζωὴνand these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.’Acts 2:28 · ζωῆς,Thou didst make known to me ways of life, Thou shalt fill me with joy with Thy countenance.Acts 3:15 · ζωῆςand the Prince of the life ye did kill, whom God did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses;Acts 5:20 · ζωῆς‘Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;’Acts 8:33 · ζωὴin his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and his generation—who shall declare? because taken from the earth is his life.’Acts 11:18 · ζωὴνAnd they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, ‘Then, indeed, also to the nations did God give the reformation to life.’Acts 13:46 · ζωῆς,And speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, ‘To you it was necessary that first the word of God be spoken, and seeing ye do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations;Acts 13:48 · ζωὴνAnd the nations hearing were glad, and were glorifying the word of the Lord, and did believe—as many as were appointed to life age-during;Acts 17:25 · ζωὴνneither by the hands of men is He served—needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;Romans 2:7 · ζωὴνto those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility—life age-during;Romans 5:10 · ζωῇfor if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.Romans 5:17 · ζωῇfor if by the offence of the one the death did reign through the one, much more those, who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the one—Jesus Christ.Romans 5:18 · ζωῆς.So, then, as through one offence to all men it is to condemnation, so also through one declaration of ‘Righteous’ it is to all men to justification of life;Romans 5:21 · ζωὴνthat even as the sin did reign in the death, so also the grace may reign, through righteousness, to life age-during, through Jesus Christ our Lord.Romans 6:4 · ζωῆςwe were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.Romans 6:22 · ζωὴνAnd now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit—to sanctification, and the end life age-during;Romans 6:23 · ζωὴfor the wages of the sin is death, and the gift of God is life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.Romans 7:10 · ζωὴνand the command that is for life, this was found by me for death;Romans 8:2 · ζωῆςfor the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;Romans 8:6 · ζωὴfor the mind of the flesh is death, and the mind of the Spirit—life and peace;Romans 8:10 · ζωὴand if Christ is in you, the body, indeed, is dead because of sin, and the Spirit is life because of righteousness,Romans 8:38 · ζωὴfor I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,Romans 11:15 · ζωὴfor if the casting away of them is a reconciliation of the world, what the reception—if not life out of the dead?1 Corinthians 3:22 · ζωὴwhether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things about to be—all are yours,1 Corinthians 15:19 · ζωῇif in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.2 Corinthians 2:16 · ζωῆς · ζωήν.to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?2 Corinthians 4:10 · ζωὴat all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested,2 Corinthians 4:11 · ζωὴfor 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 4:12 · ζωὴso that, the death indeed in us doth work, and the life in you.2 Corinthians 5:4 · ζωῆς.¶for we also who are in the tabernacle do groan, being burdened, seeing we wish not to unclothe ourselves, but to clothe ourselves, that the mortal may be swallowed up of the life.Galatians 6:8 · ζωὴνbecause he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;Ephesians 4:18 · ζωῆςbeing darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,Philippians 1:20 · ζωῆςaccording to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death,Philippians 2:16 · ζωῆςthe word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;Philippians 4:3 · ζωῆς.¶and I ask also thee, genuine yoke-fellow, be assisting those women who in the good news did strive along with me, with Clement also, and the others, my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.Colossians 3:3 · ζωὴfor ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;Colossians 3:4 · ζωὴwhen the Christ—our life—may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.1 Timothy 1:16 · ζωὴνbut because of this I found kindness, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern of those about to believe on him to life age-during:1 Timothy 4:8 · ζωῆςfor the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;1 Timothy 6:12 · ζωῆςbe striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.1 Timothy 6:19 · ζωῆς.¶treasuring up to themselves a right foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life age-during.2 Timothy 1:1 · ζωῆςPaul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, according to a promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,2 Timothy 1:10 · ζωὴνand was made manifest now through the manifestation of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who indeed did abolish death, and did enlighten life and immortality through the good news,Titus 1:2 · ζωῆςupon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,Titus 3:7 · ζωῆςthat having been declared righteous by His grace, heirs we may become according to the hope of life age-during.Hebrews 7:3 · ζωῆςwithout father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, and being made like to the Son of God, doth remain a priest continually.Hebrews 7:16 · ζωῆςwho came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,James 1:12 · ζωῆςHappy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.James 4:14 · ζωὴwho do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;1 Peter 3:7 · ζωῆςThe husbands, in like manner, dwelling with them, according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel—to the wife—imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.1 Peter 3:10 · ζωὴνfor ‘he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips—not to speak guile;2 Peter 1:3 · ζωὴνAs all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness,1 John 1:1 · ζωῆς·That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life—1 John 1:2 · ζωὴ · ζωὴνand the Life was manifested, and we have seen, and do testify, and declare to you the Life, the age-during, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us—1 John 2:25 · ζωὴνand this is the promise that He did promise us—the life the age-during.1 John 3:14 · ζωήν,we—we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.1 John 3:15 · ζωὴνEvery one who is hating his brother—a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,1 John 5:11 · ζωὴν · ζωὴand this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this—the life—is in His Son;1 John 5:12 · ζωήν· · ζωὴνhe who is having the Son, hath the life; he who is not having the Son of God—the life he hath not.1 John 5:13 · ζωὴνThese things I did write to you who are believing in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that life ye have age-during, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.1 John 5:16 · ζωήν,If any one may see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give to him life to those sinning not unto death; there is sin to death, not concerning it do I speak that he may beseech;1 John 5:20 · ζωὴand we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!Jude 1:21 · ζωὴνyourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ—to life age-during;Revelation 2:7 · ζωῆςHe who is having an ear—let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming—I will give to him to eat of the tree of life that is in the midst of the paradise of God.Revelation 2:10 · ζωῆς.‘Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.Revelation 3:5 · ζωῆςHe who is overcoming—this one—shall be arrayed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the scroll of the life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before His messengers.Revelation 7:17 · ζωῆςbecause the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and wipe away shall God every tear from their eyes.’Revelation 11:11 · ζωῆςAnd after the three days and a half, a spirit of life from God did enter into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those beholding them,Revelation 13:8 · ζωῆςAnd bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world;Revelation 16:3 · ζωῆςAnd the second messenger did pour out his vial to the sea, and there came blood as of one dead, and every living soul died in the sea.Revelation 17:8 · ζωῆς‘The beast that thou didst see: it was, and it is not; and it is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go away to destruction, and wonder shall those dwelling upon the earth, whose names have not been written upon the scroll of the life from the foundation of the world, beholding the beast that was, and is not, although it is.Revelation 20:12 · ζωῆς.and I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and scrolls were opened, and another scroll was opened, which is that of the life, and the dead were judged out of the things written in the scrolls—according to their works;Revelation 20:15 · ζωῆςand if any one was not found written in the scroll of the life, he was cast to the lake of the fire.Revelation 21:6 · ζωῆςand He said to me, ‘It hath been done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End; I, to him who is thirsting, will give of the fountain of the water of the life freely;Revelation 21:27 · ζωῆςand there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but—those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.Revelation 22:1 · ζωῆς,And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, going forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb:Revelation 22:2 · ζωῆςin the midst of its broad place, and of the river on this side and on that, is a tree of life, yielding twelve fruits, in each several month rendering its fruits, and the leaves of the tree are for the service of the nations;Revelation 22:14 · ζωῆς,‘Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;Revelation 22:17 · ζωῆςAnd the Spirit and the Bride say, Come; and he who is hearing—let him say, Come; and he who is thirsting—let him come; and he who is willing—let him take the water of life freely.Revelation 22:19 · ζωῆςand if any one may take away from the words of the scroll of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the scroll of the life, and out of the holy city, and the things that have been written in this scroll;’