ζάω
zaō (G2198)
to live
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The Greek word ζάω (zaō) means "to live." It is the most frequently occurring verb in the New Testament, appearing 143 times in the Bible. This word's significance lies in its broad application to various aspects of life, including physical existence, spiritual vitality, and social interaction. In its usage, ζάω encompasses both physical and metaphysical dimensions. It can describe the act of breathing (e.g., Acts 9:40), the experience of human life (e.g., Matthew 2:20), and the state of being alive in the spiritual realm (e.g., Colossians 2:13). The word's versatility allows it to be used in a range of contexts, from everyday conversations to theological discussions. The frequency and range of ζάω's usage in the Bible underscore its importance in the Christian narrative. As a fundamental concept, it is woven throughout the text, highlighting the value and significance of life in all its forms.
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But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”
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.”
Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
‘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.”
But 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.”
saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’
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.”
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken.”
When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.
There 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,
Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’ ”
He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”
Not 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.
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.’ ”
Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him.”
Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?
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.
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.”
The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?
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.
As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”
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.
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.
I 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.”
As 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.
This 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.”
We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
To 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.
This 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 revelations to give to us,
He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.
He 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.
“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, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.
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!”
but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
Festus 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.
having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”
For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Also, do not 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.
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?
For 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.
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