Genesis 3:22
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:
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Revelation 13:14
And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
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חָיָה
châyâh · khaw-yaw'
111 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: Genesis 12:13Strong's last: Zechariah 13:3
Open full H2421 profile →ζάω
záō · dzah'-o
53 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: Matthew 4:4Strong's last: Revelation 13:14
Open full G2198 profile →חַי
chay · khah'-ee
44 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 45:3Strong's last: Zephaniah 2:9
Open full H2416 profile →חָיַי
châyay · khaw-yah'-ee
14 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: Genesis 3:22Strong's last: Ezekiel 47:9
Open full H2425 profile →חֲיָא
chăyâʼ · khah-yaw'
5 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to live
Strong's KJV usage: live, keep alive.
Strong's first: Daniel 2:4Strong's last: Daniel 6:21
Open full H2418 profile →ἀναστρέφω
anastréphō · an-as-tref'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
to overturn; also to return; by implication, to busy oneself, i.e. remain, live
Strong's KJV usage: :--abide, behave self, have conversation, live, overthrow, pass, return, be used.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Hebrews 13:18Strong's last: 2 Peter 2:18
Open full G390 profile →יוֹם
yôwm · yome
2 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: Job 27:6Strong's last: Psalms 116:2
Open full H3117 profile →βιόω
bióō · bee-o'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to spend existence
Strong's KJV usage: :--live.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Peter 4:2Strong's last: 1 Peter 4:2
Open full G980 profile →ἐσθίω
esthíō · es-thee'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form68 total Strong's occurrences
used only in certain tenses, the rest being supplied by G5315; to eat (usually literal)
Strong's KJV usage: :--devour, eat, live.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 9:13Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 9:13
Open full G2068 profile →ζωογονέω
zōogonéō · dzo-og-on-eh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to engender alive, i.e. (by analogy) to rescue (passively, be saved) from death
Strong's KJV usage: :--live, preserve.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 7:19Strong's last: Acts 7:19
Open full G2225 profile →σύν
sýn · soon
1 times translated as this KJV form124 total Strong's occurrences
with or together (but much closer than G3326 or G3844), i.e. by association, companionship, process, resemblance, possession, instrumentality, addition, etc.
Strong's KJV usage: :--beside, with.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 13:4Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 13:4
Open full G4862 profile →ὑπάρχω
hypárchō · hoop-ar'-kho
1 times translated as this KJV form46 total Strong's occurrences
to begin under (quietly), i.e. come into existence (be present or at hand); expletively, to exist (as copula or subordinate to an adjective, participle, adverb or preposition, or as an auxiliary to a principal (verb)
Strong's KJV usage: :--after, behave, live.
Strong's first: Luke 7:25Strong's last: Luke 7:25
Open full G5225 profile →שָׁנֶה
shâneh · shaw-neh'
1 times translated as this KJV form804 total Strong's occurrences
a year (as a revolution of time)
Strong's KJV usage: whole age, × long, old, year(× -ly).
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 19:34Strong's last: 2 Samuel 19:34
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H2421
Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
H2416
Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
H2421
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
H2425
That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
H2421
Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
H2421
All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
H2421
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
H2421
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
H2416
These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
H2421
That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
H2425
And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;
H2425
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
H2416
And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
H2421
In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
H2421
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
H2416
And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
H2416
For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
H2421
Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
English meaning and historical usage.
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live
LIVE, verb intransitive liv.
1. To abide; to dwell; to have settled residence in any place. Where do you live? I live in London. He lives in Philadelphia. He lives in a large house on Second street. The Swiss live on mountains. The Bedouin Arabs live in the dessert.
2. To continue; to be permanent; not to perish.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
3. To be animated; to have the vital principle; to have the bodily functions in operation, or in a capacity to operate, as respiration, circulation of blood, secretions, etc.; applied to animals.
I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? Genesis 45:3.
4. To have the principles of vegetable life; to be in a state in which the organs do or may perform their functions in the circulation of sap and in growth; applied to plants. This tree will not live unless watered; it will not live through the winter.
5. To pass life or time in a particular manner, with regard to habits or condition. In what manner does your son live? Does he live according to the dictates of reason and the precepts of religion?
If we act by several broken views, we shall live and die in misery.
6. To continue in life. The way to live long is to be temperate.
7. To live emphatically; to enjoy life; to be in a state of happiness.
What greater curse could envious fortune give, than just to die, when I began to live?
8. To feed; to subsist; to be nourished and supported in life; as, horses live on grass or grain; fowls live on seeds or insects; some kinds of fish live on others; carnivorous animals live on flesh.
9. To subsist; to be maintained in life; to be supported. Many of the clergy are obliged to live on small salaries. All men in health may live by industry with economy, yet some men live by robbery.
10. To remain undestroyed; to float; not to sink or founder. It must be a good ship that lives at sea in a hurricane.
Nor can our shaken vessels live at sea.
11. To exist; to have being.
As I live saith the Lord - Ezekiel 18:3.
12. In Scripture, to be exempt from death, temporal or spiritual.
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. Leviticus 18:5.
13. To recover from sickness; to have life prolonged.
Thy son liveth. John 4:1.
14. To be inwardly quickened, nourished and actuated by divine influence or faith. Galatians 2:14.
15. To be greatly refreshed, comforted and animated.
For now we live if ye stand fast in the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 3:8.
16. To appear as in life or reality; to be manifest in real character.
And all the writer lives in every line.
1. To live with, to dwell or to be a lodger with.
2. To cohabit; to have intercourse, as male and female.
LIVE, verb transitive liv.
1. To continue in constantly or habitually; as, to live a life of ease.
2. To act habitually in conformity to.
It is not enough to say prayers, unless they live them too.
LIVE, adjective
1. Having life; having respiration and other organic functions in operation, or in a capacity to operate; not dead; as a live ox.
2. Having vegetable life; as a live plant.
3. Containing fire; ignited; not extinct; as a live coal.
4. Vivid, as color.
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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