LXX Concordance for ζωὴν

“And now don't be grieved or angry with yourselves for selling me here, because God sent me ahead of you to preserve life.

and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.

“See, today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and adversity.

“I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,

so that they can offer sacrifices of pleasing aroma to the God of the heavens and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

“You gave me life and faithful love,

and your care has guarded my life.

“It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,

gloomy and chaotic,

where even the light is like[fn] the darkness.”

He asked you for life, and you gave it to him —

length of days forever and ever.

Who is someone who desires life,

loving a long life to enjoy what is good?

He keeps us alive[fn]

and does not allow our feet to slip.

It is like the dew of Hermon[fn]

falling on the mountains of Zion.

For there the LORD has appointed the blessing —

life forevermore.

The LORD will not let the righteous go hungry,

but he denies the wicked what they crave.

The reward of the righteous is life;

the wages of the wicked is punishment.

The highway of the upright avoids evil;

the one who guards his way protects his life.

The fear of the LORD leads to life;

one will sleep at night[fn] without danger.

The one who pursues righteousness and faithful love

will find life, righteousness, and honor.

there will be enough goat's milk for your food —

food for your household

and nourishment for your female servants.

Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting[fn] life, which has been given to you under the sun, all your fleeting days. For that is your portion in life and in your struggle under the sun.

Whoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem will be called holy ​— ​all in Jerusalem written in the book of life[fn] ​— ​

The dead do not live;

departed spirits do not rise up.

Indeed, you have punished and destroyed them;

you have wiped out all memory of them.

For the High and Exalted One,

who lives forever, whose name is holy, says this:

“I live in a high and holy place,

and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit,

to revive the spirit of the lowly

and revive the heart of the oppressed.

Many who sleep in the dust

of the earth will awake,

some to eternal life,

and some to disgrace and eternal contempt.