Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Read in context →DEEP KJV WORD STUDY
Liveth
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.
Revelation 15:7
And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
Read in context →1 Samuel
18 occurrences in 16 verses.
Browse those occurrences →Where liveth appears.
This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.
Genesis
11 verses
Deuteronomy
11 verses
Judges
11 verses
Ruth
11 verses
1 Samuel
1816 verses
2 Samuel
98 verses
1 Kings
99 verses
2 Kings
117 verses
2 Chronicles
11 verses
Job
22 verses
Psalms
22 verses
Jeremiah
99 verses
Ezekiel
11 verses
Daniel
22 verses
Hosea
11 verses
Amos
21 verses
John
44 verses
Romans
65 verses
1 Corinthians
11 verses
2 Corinthians
11 verses
Galatians
11 verses
1 Timothy
21 verses
Hebrews
33 verses
1 Peter
11 verses
Revelation
66 verses
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
66 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 9:3Strong's last: Amos 8:14
Open full H2416 profile →ζάω
záō · dzah'-o
24 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: John 4:50Strong's last: Revelation 15:7
Open full G2198 profile →חָיַי
châyay · khaw-yah'-ee
2 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: Deuteronomy 5:24Strong's last: 1 Samuel 20:31
Open full H2425 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: Daniel 4:34Strong's last: Daniel 4:34
Open full H2417 profile →חָיָה
châyâh · khaw-yaw'
1 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: Psalms 89:48Strong's last: Psalms 89:48
Open full H2421 profile →יוֹם
yôwm · yome
1 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 Samuel 1:28Strong's last: 1 Samuel 1:28
Open full H3117 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
Read the word in context.
18 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
H2416
And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.
H3117
Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.
H2416
For, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.
H2416
And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
H2416
And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.
H2416
And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.
H2416
And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
H2416
And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
H2416
And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt; as the LORD liveth.
H2425
For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.
H2416
And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast.
H2416
Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
H2416
Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
H2416
For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
H2416
David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.
H2416
This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.
H2416
And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.
H2416
Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.
English meaning and historical usage.
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
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.
Know what each layer is—and what it is not.
Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.