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zōē G2222

ζωή (zōē) means “life” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

ζωή Greek · G2222 135 tagged occurrences in 127 verses

Pronunciation guide: dzo-ay' Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G2222

ζωή · zōē · life

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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Dodson Greek Lexicon

life, both of physical (present) and of spiritual (particularly future) existence.

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How translators render G2222

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
life 96
of life 29
and life 1
is alive 1
is life 1
life is at work 1
lifetime 1
living 1
new life 1
of living 1
that brings life 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
life 92
of life 31
the life 8
of 3
lifetime 1
of an 1
of the life 1
that 1

Verses containing G2222

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  1. Matthew 7:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

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  2. Matthew 18:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  3. Matthew 18:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  4. Matthew 19:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Just then a man came up to Jesus and inquired, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to obtain eternal life?”

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  5. Matthew 19:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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.”

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  6. Matthew 19:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  7. Matthew 25:46 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

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  8. Mark 9:43 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  9. Mark 9:45 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  10. Mark 10:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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?”

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  11. Mark 10:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  12. Luke 10:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

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  13. Luke 12:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  14. Luke 16:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  15. Luke 18:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then a certain ruler asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

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  16. Luke 18:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    will fail to receive many times more in this age—and in the age to come, eternal life.”

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  17. John 1:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

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  18. John 3:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.

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  19. John 3:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  20. John 3:36 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”

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  21. John 4:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  22. John 4:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

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  23. John 5:24 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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.

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  24. John 5:26 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.

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  25. John 5:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

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  26. John 5:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,

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  27. John 5:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.

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  28. John 6:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  29. John 6:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

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  30. John 6:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.

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  31. John 6:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  32. John 6:47 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.

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  33. John 6:48 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I am the bread of life.

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  34. John 6:51 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  35. John 6:53 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  36. John 6:54 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

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  37. John 6:63 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

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  38. John 6:68 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

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  39. John 8:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  40. John 10:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  41. John 10:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.

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  42. John 11:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.

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  43. John 12:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

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  44. John 12:50 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”

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  45. John 14:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

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  46. John 17:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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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  47. John 17:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

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  48. John 20:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.

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  49. Acts 2:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’

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  50. Acts 3:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of this fact.

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