Word study · Greek
ζωή
zōēG2222life
Used 135 times in the tagged text.
What it means
- of natural life
- Of the life of the kingdom of God, the present life of grace and the life of glory whic…
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- 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)
Same idea, other words · Life
Life in Scripture is more than being alive. In John's Gospel 'life' becomes a name for what Christ gives.
Where it appears
- Matthew7
- Mark4
- Luke5
- John36
- Acts8
- Romans14
- 1 Corinthians2
- 2 Corinthians6
- Galatians1
- Ephesians1
- Philippians3
- Colossians2
- 1 Timothy4
- 2 Timothy2
- Titus2
- Hebrews2
- James2
- 1 Peter2
- 2 Peter1
- 1 John13
- Jude1
- Revelation17
Every use · 1–50 of 135 · BSB
But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.
If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands and two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire.
And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
Just then a man came up to Jesus and inquired, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to obtain eternal life?”
“Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.
As Jesus started on His way, a man ran up and knelt before Him. “Good Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.
One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
Then a certain ruler asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
will fail to receive many times more in this age—and in the age to come, eternal life.”
In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.
For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.
and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.
Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”
For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.
For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.
I am the bread of life.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.
Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.
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