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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Life

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

450exact KJV occurrences 264Old Testament 186New Testament 49books containing the word 21mapped Strong's IDs 444occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 1:20

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 22:19

And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where life appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 3229 verses Exodus 76 verses Leviticus 53 verses Numbers 11 verses Deuteronomy 1713 verses Joshua 33 verses Judges 44 verses Ruth 11 verses 1 Samuel 1412 verses 2 Samuel 77 verses 1 Kings 2015 verses 2 Kings 1410 verses 2 Chronicles 21 verses Ezra 11 verses Nehemiah 11 verses Esther 33 verses Job 1919 verses Psalms 2626 verses Proverbs 3838 verses Ecclesiastes 1210 verses Isaiah 66 verses Jeremiah 1817 verses Lamentations 33 verses Ezekiel 55 verses Daniel 11 verses Jonah 33 verses Malachi 11 verses Matthew 1512 verses Mark 87 verses Luke 1513 verses John 4438 verses Acts 1212 verses Romans 1616 verses 1 Corinthians 55 verses 2 Corinthians 87 verses Galatians 33 verses Ephesians 11 verses Philippians 44 verses Colossians 22 verses 1 Timothy 55 verses 2 Timothy 44 verses Titus 22 verses Hebrews 33 verses James 22 verses 1 Peter 33 verses 2 Peter 11 verses 1 John 1512 verses Jude 11 verses Revelation 1717 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH2416
חַי

chay · khah'-ee

144 times translated as this KJV form498 total Strong's occurrences

a n-m n-f

alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively

Strong's KJV usage: age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, merry, multitude, (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 1:20Strong's last: Malachi 2:5

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HebrewH5315
נֶפֶשׁ

nephesh · neh'-fesh

100 times translated as this KJV form738 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)

Strong's KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, × dead(-ly), desire, × (dis-) contented, × fish, ghost, greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, × jeopardy of) life (× in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, slay, soul, tablet, they, thing, (× she) will, × would have it.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 9:4Strong's last: Jonah 4:3

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GreekG5590
ψυχή

psychḗ · psoo-khay'

34 times translated as this KJV form112 total Strong's occurrences

breath, i.e. (by implication) spirit, abstractly or concretely (the animal sentient principle only; thus distinguished on the one hand from G4151, which is the rational and immortal soul; and on the other from G2222, which is mere vitality, even of plants: these terms thus exactly correspond respectively to the Hebrew H5315, H7307 and H2416)

Strong's KJV usage: :--heart (+ -ily), life, mind, soul, + us, + you.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Matthew 2:20Strong's last: Revelation 8:9

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HebrewH2421
חָיָה

châyâh · khaw-yaw'

9 times translated as this KJV form270 total Strong's occurrences

v

to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive

Strong's KJV usage: keep (leave, make) alive, × certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, (× God) save (alive, life, lives), × surely, be whole.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 2 Kings 8:1Strong's last: Ezekiel 13:22

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HebrewH3117
יוֹם

yôwm · yome

4 times translated as this KJV form2,209 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)

Strong's KJV usage: age, always, chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), elder, × end, evening, (for) ever(-lasting, -more), × full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, old, outlived, perpetually, presently, remaineth, × required, season, × since, space, then, (process of) time, as at other times, in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), × whole ( age), (full) year(-ly), younger.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 1 Kings 3:11Strong's last: Psalms 91:16

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GreekG982
βιωτικός

biōtikós · bee-o-tee-kos'

3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

relating to the present existence

Strong's KJV usage: :--of (pertaining to, things that pertain to) this life.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Luke 21:34Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 6:4

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GreekG72
ἀγωγή

agōgḗ · ag-o-gay'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

a bringing up, i.e. mode of living

Strong's KJV usage: :--manner of life.

Strong's first: 2 Timothy 3:10Strong's last: 2 Timothy 3:10

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GreekG575
ἀπό

apó · apo'

1 times translated as this KJV form641 total Strong's occurrences

"off," i.e. away (from something near), in various senses (of place, time, or relation; literal or figurative)

Strong's KJV usage: :--(X here-)after, ago, at, because of, before, by (the space of), for(-th), from, in, (out) of, off, (up-)on(-ce), since, with.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Revelation 17:8Strong's last: Revelation 17:8

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GreekG846
αὐτός

autós · ow-tos'

1 times translated as this KJV form5,718 total Strong's occurrences

the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the compound G1438) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons

Strong's KJV usage: :--her, it(-self), one, the other, (mine) own, said, (self-), the) same, ((him-, my-, thy- )self, (your-)selves, she, that, their(-s), them(-selves), there(-at, - by, -in, -into, -of, -on, -with), they, (these) things, this (man), those, together, very, which.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Luke 17:33Strong's last: Luke 17:33

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GreekG981
βίωσις

bíōsis · bee'-o-sis

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

living (properly, the act, by implication, the mode)

Strong's KJV usage: :--manner of life.

Strong's first: Acts 26:4Strong's last: Acts 26:4

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GreekG4151
πνεῦμα

pneûma · pnyoo'-mah

1 times translated as this KJV form441 total Strong's occurrences

a current of air, i.e. breath (blast) or a breeze; by analogy or figuratively, a spirit, i.e. (human) the rational soul, (by implication) vital principle, mental disposition, etc., or (superhuman) an angel, demon, or (divine) God, Christ's spirit, the Holy Spirit

Strong's KJV usage: :--ghost, life, spirit(-ual, -ually), mind.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Revelation 13:15Strong's last: Revelation 13:15

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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450 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Genesis 1:20
H2416

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

Genesis 1:30
H2416

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

Genesis 2:7
H2416

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 2:9
H2416

And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 3:14
H2416

And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

Genesis 3:17
H2416

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Genesis 3:22
H2416

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Genesis 3:24
H2416

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Genesis 6:17
H2416

And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

Genesis 7:11
H2416

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Genesis 7:15
H2416

And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

Genesis 7:22
H2416

All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

Genesis 9:4
H5315

But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

Genesis 9:5
H5315

And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

Genesis 18:10
H2416

And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

Genesis 18:14
H2416

Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

Genesis 19:17
H5315

And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

Genesis 19:19
H5315

Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

Genesis 23:1
H2416

And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

Genesis 25:7
H2416

And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.

Genesis 25:17
H2416

And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.

Genesis 27:46
H2416

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

Genesis 27:46
H2416

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

Genesis 32:30
H5315

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

Genesis 42:15
H2416

Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

life

LIFE, noun plu lives. [See Live.]

1. In a general sense, that state of animals and plants, or of an organized being, in which its natural functions and motions are performed, or in which its organs are capable of performing their functions. A tree is not destitute of life in winter, when the functions of its organs are suspended; nor man during a swoon or syncope; nor strictly birds, quadrupeds or serpents during their torpitude in winter. They are not strictly dead, till the functions of their organs are incapable of being renewed.

2. In animals, animation; vitality; and in man, that state of being in which the soul and body are united.

He entreated me not to take his life

3. In plants, the state in which they grow or are capable of growth, by means of the circulation of the sap. The life of an oak may be two, three, or four hundred years.

4. The present state of existence; the time from birth to death. The life of man seldom exceeds seventy years.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. 1 Corinthians 15:19.

5. Manner of living; conduct; deportment, in regard to morals.

I will teach my family to lead good lives.

6. Condition; course of living, in regard to happiness and misery. We say, a man's life has been a series of prosperity, or misfortune.

7. Blood, the supposed vehicle of animation.

And the warm life came issuing through the wound.

8. Animals in general; animal being.

Full nature swarms with life

9. System of animal nature.

Lives through all life

10. Spirit; animation; briskness; vivacity; resolution.

They have no notion of life and fire in fancy and words.

11. The living form; real person or state; in opposition to a copy; as, a picture is taken from the life; a description from the life

12. Exact resemblance; with to, before life

His portrait is draw to the life

13. General state of man, or of social manners; as the studies and arts that polish life

14. Condition; rank in society; as high life and low life

15.Common occurrences; course of things; human affairs.

But to know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime wisdom.

16. A person; a living being; usually or always, a human being. How many lives were sacrificed during the revolution?

17. Narrative of a past life; history of the events of life; biographical narration. Johnson wrote the life of Milton, and the lives of other poets.

18. In Scripture, nourishment; support of life

For the tree of the field is man's life Deuteronomy 20:19.

19. The stomach or appetite.

His life abhorreth bread. Job 33:4.

20. The enjoyments or blessings of the present life

Having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. 1 Timothy 4:8.

21. Supreme felicity.

To be spiritually minded is life and peace. Romans 8:2.

22. Eternal happiness in heaven. Romans 5:10.

23. Restoration to life Romans 5:10.

24. The author and giver of supreme felicity.

I am the way, the truth, and the life John 14:6.

25. A quickening, animating and strengthening principle, in a moral sense. John 6:27.

26. The state of being in force, or the term for which an instrument has legal operation; as the life of an execution.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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