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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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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53 verses
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11 verses
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1713 verses
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33 verses
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44 verses
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11 verses
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1412 verses
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77 verses
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2015 verses
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11 verses
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33 verses
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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.
חַי
chay · khah'-ee
144 times translated as this KJV form498 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Strong's first: Genesis 1:20Strong's last: Malachi 2:5
Open full H2416 profile →ζωή
zōḗ · dzo-ay'
131 times translated as this KJV form138 total Strong's occurrences
life (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--life(-time).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 7:14Strong's last: Revelation 22:19
Open full G2222 profile →נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh · neh'-fesh
100 times translated as this KJV form738 total Strong's occurrences
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
Open full H5315 profile →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
Open full G5590 profile →חָיָה
châyâh · khaw-yaw'
9 times translated as this KJV form270 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Strong's first: 2 Kings 8:1Strong's last: Ezekiel 13:22
Open full H2421 profile →βίος
bíos · bee'-os
5 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
life, i.e. (literally) the present state of existence; by implication, the means of livelihood
Strong's KJV usage: :--good, life, living.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 8:14Strong's last: 1 John 2:16
Open full G979 profile →יוֹם
yôwm · yome
4 times translated as this KJV form2,209 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 3:11Strong's last: Psalms 91:16
Open full H3117 profile →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
Open full G982 profile →ζωοποιέω
zōopoiéō · dzo-op-oy-eh'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
to (re-)vitalize (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--make alive, give life, quicken.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 3:6Strong's last: Galatians 3:21
Open full G2227 profile →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
Open full G72 profile →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.
Strong's first: Revelation 17:8Strong's last: Revelation 17:8
Open full G575 profile →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.
Strong's first: Luke 17:33Strong's last: Luke 17:33
Open full G846 profile →ἄψυχος
ápsychos · ap'-soo-khos
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
lifeless, i.e. inanimate (mechanical)
Strong's KJV usage: :--without life.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 14:7Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 14:7
Open full G895 profile →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
Open full G981 profile →ζάω
záō · dzah'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form151 total Strong's occurrences
to live (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--life(-time), (a-)live(-ly), quick.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 1:8Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 1:8
Open full G2198 profile →οὐδείς
oudeís · oo-dice'
1 times translated as this KJV form231 total Strong's occurrences
not even one (man, woman or thing), i.e. none, nobody, nothing
Strong's KJV usage: :--any (man), aught, man, neither any (thing), never (man), no (man), none (+ of these things), not (any, at all, -thing), nought.
Strong's first: Acts 27:22Strong's last: Acts 27:22
Open full G3762 profile →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
Open full G4151 profile →חַי
chay · khah'-ee
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
alive; also (as noun in plural) life
Strong's KJV usage: life, that liveth, living.
Strong's first: Ezra 6:10Strong's last: Ezra 6:10
Open full H2417 profile →חָיַי
châyay · khaw-yah'-ee
1 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
to live; causatively to revive
Strong's KJV usage: live, save life.
Strong's first: Nehemiah 6:11Strong's last: Nehemiah 6:11
Open full H2425 profile →מִחְיָה
michyâh · mikh-yaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
preservation of life; hence, sustenance; also the live flesh, i.e. the quick
Strong's KJV usage: preserve life, quick, recover selves, reviving, sustenance, victuals.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 45:5Strong's last: Genesis 45:5
Open full H4241 profile →עֶצֶם
ʻetsem · eh'tsem
1 times translated as this KJV form126 total Strong's occurrences
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
Strong's KJV usage: body, bone, × life, (self-) same, strength, × very.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 7:15Strong's last: Job 7:15
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G5590
Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.
G5590
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
G5590
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
G2222
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
G5590
He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
G5590
He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
G5590
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
G5590
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
G2222
Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
G2222
And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
G2222
And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
G2222
And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
G2222
And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
G5590
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
G2222
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
English meaning and historical usage.
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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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