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
So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.
H2416
And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
H8141
And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?
H2421
Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
H2416
That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
H2421
So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
H2421
Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
H2421
If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
H2421
Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
H2421
Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
H2421
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
H2416
That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
H2421
And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
H2421
For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.
H2421
And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
H2421
All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
H2421
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
H2421
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
H2421
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
H3117
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
H2421
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
H2421
That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
no direct Strong's tag
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
H2416
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
H2421
The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
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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