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Lexicon :: Strong's G2222 - zōē

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ζωή
Transliteration
zōē (Key)
Pronunciation
dzo-ay'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:832,290

Trench's Synonyms: xxvii. ζωή, βίος.

Strong’s Definitions

ζωή zōḗ, dzo-ay'; from G2198; life (literally or figuratively):—life(-time). Compare G5590.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 134x

The KJV translates Strong's G2222 in the following manner: life (133x), lifetime (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 134x
The KJV translates Strong's G2222 in the following manner: life (133x), lifetime (1x).
  1. life

    1. the state of one who is possessed of vitality or is animate

    2. every living soul

  2. life

    1. of the absolute fulness of life, both essential and ethical, which belongs to God, and through him both to the hypostatic "logos" and to Christ in whom the "logos" put on human nature

    2. life real and genuine, a life active and vigorous, devoted to God, blessed, in the portion even in this world of those who put their trust in Christ, but after the resurrection to be consummated by new accessions (among them a more perfect body), and to last for ever.

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ζωή zōḗ, dzo-ay'; from G2198; life (literally or figuratively):—life(-time). Compare G5590.
STRONGS G2222:
ζωή, ζωῆς, (from ζάω, ζῶ), the Sept. chiefly for חַיִּים; life;
1. universally, life, i. e. the state of one who is possessed of vitality or is animate: 1 Peter 3:10 (on which see ἀγαπάω); Hebrews 7:3, 16; αὐτός ( Θεός) διδούς πᾶσιν ζωήν καί πνοήν, Acts 17:25; πνεῦμα ζωῆς ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ, the vital spirit, the breath of (i. e. imparting) life, Revelation 11:11 (Ezekiel 37:5); πᾶσα ψυχή ζωῆς, genitive of possess, every living soul, Revelation 16:3 G L T Tr text WH; spoken of earthly life: ζωή τίνος, Luke 12:15; Acts 8:33 (see αἴρω, 3 h.); James 4:14; ἐν τῇ ζωή σου, whilst thou wast living on earth, Luke 16:25 (ἐν τῇ ζωή αὐτοῦ, Sir. 30:5 Sir. 50:1); ἐν τῇ ζωή ταύτῃ, 1 Corinthians 15:19; πᾶσαι αἱ ἡμέραι τῆς ζωῆς τίνος, Luke 1:75 Rec. (Genesis 3:14; Psalm 127:5 (Ps. 128:5); Sir. 22:12 (10)). ἐπαγγελία ζωῆς τῆς νῦν καί τῆς μελλούσης, a promise looking to the present and the future life, 1 Timothy 4:8; ζωή and θάνατος are contrasted in Romans 8:38; 1 Corinthians 3:22; Philippians 1:20; of a life preserved in the midst of perils, with a suggestion of vigor, 2 Corinthians 4:12 (the life of Paul is meant here, which exerts a saving power on the Corinthians by his discharge of his apostolic duties); of the life of persons raised from the dead: ἐν καινότητι ζωῆς, figuratively spoken of a new mode of life, dedicated to God, Romans 6:4; of the life of Jesus after his resurrection, Acts 2:28; Romans 5:10; of the same, with the added notion of vigor, 2 Corinthians 4:10f.
2. used emphatically,
a. of the absolute fullness of life, both essential and ethical, which belongs to God, and through him both to the hypostatic λόγος and to Christ in whom the λόγος put on human nature: ὥσπερ πατήρ ἔχει ζωήν ἐν ἑαυτῷ, οὕτως ἔδωκεν καί τῷ υἱῷ ζωήν ἔχειν ἐν ἑαυτῷ, John 5:26; ἐν αὐτῷ (namely, τῷ λόγῳ) ζωή ἦν καί ζωή ἦν τό φῶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων, in him life was (comprehended), and the life (transfused from the Logos into created natures) was the light (i. e. the intelligence) of men (because the life of men is self-conscious, and thus a fountain of intelligence springs up), John 1:4; λόγος τῆς ζωῆς, the Logos having life in itself and communicating it to others, 1 John 1:1; ζωή ἐφανερώθη, was manifested in Christ, clothed in flesh, 1 John 1:2. From this divine fountain of life flows forth that life which is next to be defined: viz.
b. life real and genuine, vita quae sola vita nominanda (Cicero, de sen. 21, 77), a life active and vigorous, devoted to God, blessed, the portion even in this world of those who put their trust in Christ, but after the resurrection to be consummated by new accessions (among them a more perfect body), and to last forever (the writers of the O. T. have anticipated the conception, in their way, by employing חַיִּים to denote a happy life and every kind of blessing: Deuteronomy 30:15, 19; Malachi 2:5; Psalm 33:13 (Ps. 34:13) 13; Proverbs 8:35; Proverbs 12:28, etc.): John 6:51, 63; John 14:6; Romans 7:10; Romans 8:6, 10; 2 Corinthians 2:16; Philippians 2:16; (Colossians 3:4); 2 Peter 1:3; 1 John 5:11, 16, 20; with the addition of τοῦ Θεοῦ, supplied by God (Winer's Grammar, 186 (175)), Ephesians 4:18; ἐν Χριστῷ, to be obtained in fellowship with Christ, 2 Timothy 1:1; μεταβεβηκέναι ἐκ τοῦ θανάτου εἰς ζωήν, John 5:24; 1 John 3:14; ὄψεσθαί τήν ζωήν, John 3:36; ἔχειν ζωήν, John 5:40; John 10:10; 1 John 5:12; with ἐν ἑαυτῷ (or ἑαυτοῖς) added, John 5:26; (John 6:53); διδόναι, John 6:33; χάρις ζωῆς, the grace of God evident in the life obtained, 1 Peter 3:7; τό πνεῦμα τῆς ζωῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, the Spirit, the repository and imparter of life, and which is received by those united to Christ, Romans 8:2; ἄρτος τῆς ζωῆς (see ἄρτος, at the end), John 6:35, 48; τό φῶς τῆς ζοης, the light illumined by which one arrives at life, John 8:12. more fully ζωή αἰώνιος and ζωή αἰώνιος ((cf. Buttmann, 90 (79)); see below): John 4:36; (John 12:50); John 17:3; 1 John 1:2; 1 John 2:25; (ῤήματα ζωῆς αἰωνίου, John 6:68); εἰς ζωήν αἰώνιον, unto the attainment of eternal life (cf. εἰς, B. II. 3 c. δ., p. 185a), John 4:14; John 6:27; διδόναι ζωήν αἰώνιον, John 10:28; John 17:2; 1 John 5:11; ἔχειν ζωήν αἰώνιον, John 3:15 (and John 3:16) (opposed to ἀπολλυσθαι), John 3:36; John 5:24, 39; John 6:40, 47, 54; John 20:31 L brackets; 1 John 5:13; οὐκ ἔχειν ζωήν αἰώνιον ἐν ἑαυτῷ, 1 John 3:15; (in Enoch 15:4,6 the wicked angels are said before their fall to have been spiritual and partakers of eternal and immortal life). ζωή and ζωή, without epithet, are used of the blessing of real life after the resurrection, in Matthew 7:14; John 11:25; Acts 3:15; Acts 5:20; Acts 11:18; Romans 5:17, 18 (on which see δικαίωσις, at the end); 2 Corinthians 5:4; Colossians 3:3; 2 Timothy 1:10; Titus 1:2; Titus 3:7; ζωή ἐκ νεκρῶν, life breaking forth from the abode of the dead, Romans 11:15; εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τήν ζωήν, Matthew 18:8; Matthew 19:17; Mark 9:43, 45; ἀνάστασις ζωῆς equivalent to εἰς ζωήν (2 Macc. 7:14), John 5:29 (on the genitive, cf. Winer's Grammar, 188 (177)); στέφανος τῆς ζωῆς equivalent to ζωή ὡς στέφανος, James 1:12; Revelation 2:10; ξύλον τῆς ζωῆς, the tree whose fruit gives and maintains eternal life, Revelation 2:7; Revelation 22:2, 14, 19 (G L T Tr WH) (cf. Genesis 2:9; Proverbs 3:18; δένδρον ζωῆς, Proverbs 11:30; Proverbs 13:12); cf. Bleek, Vorless. üb. d. Apokalypse, p. 174f; ὕδωρ ζωῆς, water the use of which serves to maintain eternal life, Revelation 21:6; Revelation 22:1, 17; in the same sense ζωῆς πηγαί ὑδάτων, Revelation 7:17 G L T Tr WH; βίβλος and τό βιβλίον τῆς ζωῆς, the book in which the names of those are recorded to whom eternal life has been decreed: Philippians 4:3; Revelation 3:5; Revelation 13:8; Revelation 17:8; Revelation 20:12, 15; Revelation 21:27; (Revelation 22:19 Rec.; cf. Lightfoot on Philippians, the passage cited), more fully ὄντως (Rec. αἰώνιος) ζωή, 1 Timothy 6:19; ζωή αἰώνιος (cf. above) (Justin Martyr, de resurr. i., p. 588 c. λόγος... διδούς ἡμῖν ἐν ἑαυτῷ τήν ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀνάστασιν καί τήν μετά ταῦτα ζωήν αἰώνιον), Matthew 25:46 (opposed to κόλασις αἰώνιος); Acts 13:46, 48; Romans 2:7; Romans 6:22; Galatians 6:8; 1 Timothy 6:12; after ἐν τῷ αἰῶνι τῷ ἐρχομένῳ, Mark 10:30; Luke 18:30; ἔχειν ζωήν αἰώνιον Matthew 19:16; κληρονομεῖν, Matthew 19:29; Mark 10:17; Luke 10:25; Luke 18:18; εἰς ζωήν αἰώνιον, unto the attainment of life eternal, John 12:25; Romans 5:21; 1 Timothy 1:16; Jude 1:21 (Daniel 12:2; 4 Macc. 15:2; ἀενναος ζωή, 2 Macc. 7:36; ἀΐδιος ζωή, Ignatius ad Eph. 19 [ET]). Cf. Köstlin, Lehrbegriff des Ev. Johann. etc., pp. 234ff, 338ff; Reuss, Johann. Theologie (in Beiträge zu d. theol. Wissenschaften, vol. i.), p. 76ff (cf. his Hist. de la Theol. Chret., book vii., chapter xiv.); Lipsius, Paulin. Rechtfertigungslehre, pp. 152ff 185f; Güder in Herzog viii. 254 (2nd edition, 509ff); B. B. Brückner, De notione vocis ζωή in N. T. Lipsius 1858; Huther, d. Bedeut. d. Begriffe ζωή u. πιστεύειν im N. T., in the Jahrbb. f. deutsche Theol. 1872, p. 1ff (For the relations of the term to heathen conceptions cf. G. Teichmüller, Aristotle, Forsch. iii., p. 127ff) Some, as Bretschneider, Wahl, Wilke, especially Käuffer (in his book De biblica ζωῆς αἰωνίου notione. Dresd. 1838); Westcott, Epp. of St. John, p. 204 sqq., maintain that ζωή αἰώνιος everywhere even in John's writings refers to life after the resurrection; but in this way they are compelled not only to assume a prophetic use of the perfect in the saying ἐκ τοῦ θανάτου μεταβεβηκέναι εἰς τήν ζωήν (John 5:24; 1 John 3:14), but also to interpret the common phrase ἔχει ζωήν αἰώνιον as meaning he has eternal life as his certain portion though as yet only in hope, as well as to explain ζωήν αἰώνιον οὐκ ἔχειν ἐν ἑαυτῷ μένουσαν (1 John 3:15) of the hope of eternal life. (Synonym: see βίος, at the end.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
2:9; 3:14
Deuteronomy
30:15; 30:19
Psalms
33:13; 34:13; 127:5; 128:5
Proverbs
3:18; 8:35; 11:30; 12:28; 13:12
Ezekiel
37:5
Daniel
4; 12:2
Malachi
2:5
Matthew
7:14; 18:8; 19:16; 19:17; 19:29; 25:46
Mark
9:43; 9:45; 10:17; 10:30
Luke
1:75; 10:25; 12:15; 16:25; 18:18; 18:30
John
1:4; 3:15; 3:16; 3:36; 3:36; 4:14; 4:36; 5:24; 5:24; 5:24; 5:26; 5:26; 5:29; 5:39; 5:40; 6:27; 6:33; 6:35; 6:40; 6:47; 6:48; 6:51; 6:53; 6:54; 6:63; 6:68; 8:12; 10:10; 10:28; 11:25; 12:25; 12:50; 14:6; 17:2; 17:3; 20:31
Acts
2:28; 3:15; 5:20; 8:33; 11:18; 13:46; 13:48; 17:25
Romans
2:7; 5:10; 5:17; 5:18; 5:21; 6:4; 6:22; 7:10; 8:2; 8:6; 8:10; 8:38; 11:15
1 Corinthians
3:22; 15:19
2 Corinthians
2:16; 4:10; 4:12; 5:4
Galatians
6:8
Ephesians
4:18
Philippians
1:20; 2:16; 4:3
Colossians
3:3; 3:4
1 Timothy
1:16; 4:8; 6:12; 6:19
2 Timothy
1:1; 1:10
Titus
1:2; 3:7
Hebrews
7:3; 7:16
James
1:12; 4:14
1 Peter
3:7; 3:10
2 Peter
1:3
1 John
1:1; 1:2; 1:2; 2:25; 3:14; 3:14; 3:15; 3:15; 5:11; 5:11; 5:12; 5:13; 5:16; 5:20
Jude
1:21
Revelation
2:7; 2:10; 3:5; 7:17; 11:11; 13:8; 16:3; 17:8; 20:12; 20:15; 21:6; 21:27; 22:1; 22:2; 22:14; 22:17; 22:19; 22:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2222 matches the Greek ζωή (zōē),
which occurs 134 times in 126 verses in the TR Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Mat 7:14–Act 2:28)

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:14 - “For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, G2222 and there are few who find it.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:8 - “If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life G2222 crippled or lame, than [fn]to have two hands or two feet and be cast into the eternal fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:9 - “If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life G2222 with one eye, than [fn]to have two eyes and be cast into the [fn]fiery hell.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:16 - And someone came to Him and said, “Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may obtain eternal life?” G2222
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:17 - And He said to him, “Why are you asking Me about what is good? There is only One who is good; but if you wish to enter into life, G2222 keep the commandments.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:29 - “And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother [fn]or children or farms for My name’s sake, will receive [fn]many times as much, and will inherit eternal life. G2222
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:46 - “These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” G2222
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:43 - “If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life G2222 crippled, than, having your two hands, to go into [fn]hell, into the unquenchable fire,
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:45 - “If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life G2222 lame, than, having your two feet, to be cast into [fn]hell,
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 10:17 - As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up to Him and knelt before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” G2222
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 10:30 - [fn]but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in [fn]the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life. G2222
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:75 - In holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:25 - And a [fn]lawyer stood up and put Him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” G2222
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:15 - Then He said to them, “Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life G2222 consist of his possessions.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:25 - “But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life G2222 you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 18:18 - A ruler questioned Him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” G2222
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 18:30 - who will not receive many times as much at this time and in the age to come, eternal life.” G2222
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:4 - In Him was life, G2222 and the life G2222 was the Light of men.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:15 - so that whoever [fn]believes will in Him have eternal life. G2222
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:16 - “For God so loved the world, that He gave His [fn]only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. G2222
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:36 - “He who believes in the Son has eternal life; G2222 but he who does not [fn]obey the Son will not see life, G2222 but the wrath of God abides on him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:14 - but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” G2222
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:36 - “Already he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for life G2222 eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:24 - “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, G2222 and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. G2222
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:26 - “For just as the Father has life G2222 in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life G2222 in Himself;
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:29 - and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, G2222 those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:39 - [fn]You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; G2222 it is these that testify about Me;
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:40 - and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life. G2222
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:27 - “Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, G2222 which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:33 - “For the bread of God is [fn]that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life G2222 to the world.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:35 - Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; G2222 he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:40 - “For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, G2222 and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:47 - “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life. G2222
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:48 - “I am the bread of life. G2222
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:51 - “I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life G2222 of the world is My flesh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:53 - So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life G2222 in yourselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:54 - “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, G2222 and I will raise him up on the last day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:63 - “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. G2222
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:68 - Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life. G2222
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:12 - Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.” G2222
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:10 - “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, G2222 and [fn]have it abundantly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:28 - and I give eternal life G2222 to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:25 - Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; G2222 he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:25 - “He who loves his [fn]life loses it, and he who hates his [fn]life in this world will keep it to life G2222 eternal.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:50 - “I know that His commandment is eternal life; G2222 therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:6 - Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; G2222 no one comes to the Father but through Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:2 - even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to [fn]all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life. G2222
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:3 - “This is eternal life, G2222 that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 20:31 - but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is [fn]the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life G2222 in His name.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:28 - ‘YOU HAVE MADE KNOWN TO ME THE WAYS OF LIFE G2222;
YOU WILL MAKE ME FULL OF GLADNESS WITH YOUR PRESENCE.’

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