Cloud of WitnessesBeta
3 witnesses

Strong’s G2198 · Greek

ζάω

záō · dzah'-o

Origin a primary verb;

Meaning to live (literally or figuratively)

In the King James Version life(-time), (a-)live(-ly), quick.

In 127 verses of the King James Version

1–50 of 127

  1. Matthew 4:4But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
  2. Matthew 9:18While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
  3. Matthew 16:16And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
  4. Matthew 22:32I 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.
  5. Matthew 26:63But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
  6. Matthew 27:63Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
  7. Mark 5:23And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.
  8. Mark 12:27He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
  9. Mark 16:11And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.
  10. Luke 2:36And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
  11. Luke 4:4And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
  12. Luke 10:28And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
  13. Luke 15:13And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
  14. Luke 20:38For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
  15. Luke 24:5And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
  16. Luke 24:23And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
  17. John 4:10Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
  18. John 4:11The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
  19. John 4:50Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
  20. John 4:51And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.
  21. John 4:53So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.
  22. John 5:25Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
  23. John 6:51I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
  24. John 6:57As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
  25. John 6:58This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
  26. John 6:69And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
  27. John 7:38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
  28. John 11:25Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
  29. John 11:26And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
  30. John 14:19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
  31. Acts 1:3To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
  32. Acts 7:38This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
  33. Acts 9:41And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.
  34. Acts 10:42And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
  35. Acts 14:15And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
  36. Acts 17:28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
  37. Acts 20:12And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.
  38. Acts 22:22And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
  39. Acts 25:19But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
  40. Acts 25:24And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
  41. Acts 26:5Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
  42. Acts 28:4And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
  43. Romans 1:17For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
  44. Romans 6:2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
  45. Romans 6:10For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
  46. Romans 6:11Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  47. Romans 6:13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
  48. Romans 7:1Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
  49. Romans 7:2For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
  50. Romans 7:3So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

ζάω (G2198) · Strong’s · Cloud of Witnesses