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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H2416
Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
H2421
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
H2421
And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.
H2421
And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
G2198
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
G2198
While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
G2198
And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.
G2198
And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
G5225
But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
G2198
And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
G2198
For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
G2198
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
G2198
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
G2198
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
G2198
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
G2198
This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
G2198
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
G2198
Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
G2198
Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
G2225
The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
G2198
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
G2198
And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
G2198
And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
G2198
And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
G2198
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
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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