ζωή
zōē
life
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredBased on the lexicon data, the word "zōē" (Greek: ζωή) holds a significant meaning as "life." This concept of life appears 136 times in the Bible, indicating its importance and widespread usage across various passages. The frequency of its appearance underscores its relevance to many aspects of human existence, from birth and death to faith and relationships. The extensive use of "zōē" in the Bible highlights its connection to the human experience, emphasizing life as a fundamental aspect of our lives. Without further context, it's difficult to determine the extent of "zōē"'s range of usage, but its presence in a variety of situations suggests that it encompasses various shades and dimensions of life, including emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being.
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Occurrences in Scripture
136 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.
Matthew 18:8If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.
Matthew 18:9If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.
Matthew 19:16Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”
Matthew 19:17He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
Matthew 19:29Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
Matthew 25:46These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Mark 9:43If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,
Mark 9:45If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched—
Mark 10:17As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”
Mark 10:30but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
Luke 1:75in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
Luke 10:25Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
Luke 12:15He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
Luke 16:25“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.
Luke 18:18A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
Luke 18:30who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”
John 1:4In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
John 1:4In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
John 3:15that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
John 3:36One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
John 3:36One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
John 4:36He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
John 5:24“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
John 5:24“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
John 5:26For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
John 5:26For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
John 5:39“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
John 5:40Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
John 6:27Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
John 6:33For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”
John 6:35Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
John 6:40This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
John 6:47Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.
John 6:48I am the bread of life.
John 6:51I 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 6:53Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves.
John 6:54He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:63It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
John 6:68Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
John 8:12Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 10:10The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
John 10:28I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
John 12:25He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
John 12:50I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.”
John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
John 17:2even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.