ζάω
to live
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms 37 distinct
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 13 times (9%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 13 times (9%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive 12 times (9%)
- Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 9 times (6%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 9 times (6%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine 7 times (5%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 7 times (5%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 6 times (4%)
+29 more forms (64 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 140 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2198 appears — 124 distinct verses across 20 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 6 verses
- Matthew 4:4 ζήσεται fut mid.dep ind 3sg But he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'"
- Matthew 9:18 ζήσεται fut mid.dep ind 3sg While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."
- Matthew 16:16 ζῶντος pres act ptcp gen sg masc Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
- Matthew 22:32 ζώντων pres act ptcp gen pl masc 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?' God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."
- Matthew 26:63 ζῶντος pres act ptcp gen sg masc But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, "I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God."
- Matthew 27:63 ζῶν pres act ptcp nom sg masc saying, "Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: 'After three days I will rise again.'
Mark 3 verses
- Mark 5:23 ζήσῃ aor act subj 3sg and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live."
- Mark 12:27 ζώντων pres act ptcp gen pl masc He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken."
- Mark 16:11 ζῇ pres act ind 3sg When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.
Luke 8 verses
- Luke 2:36 Ζήσασα aor act ptcp nom sg fem There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,
- Luke 4:4 ζήσεται fut mid.dep ind 3sg Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.'"
- Luke 10:28 ζήσῃ fut mid.dep ind 2sg He said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live."
- Luke 15:13 ζῶν pres act ptcp nom sg masc Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
- Luke 15:32 ἔζησεν aor act ind 3sg But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'"
- Luke 20:38 ζώντων ζῶσιν pres act ptcp gen pl masc pres act ind 3pl Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him."
- Luke 24:5 ζῶντα pres act ptcp acc sg masc Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?
- Luke 24:23 ζῆν pres act inf and when they didn't find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.
John 13 verses
- John 4:10 ζῶν pres act ptcp acc sg neut Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
- John 4:11 ζῶν pres act ptcp acc sg neut The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?
- John 4:50 ζῇ pres act ind 3sg Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
- John 4:51 ζῇ pres act ind 3sg As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying "Your child lives!"
- John 4:53 ζῇ pres act ind 3sg So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole house.
- John 5:25 ζήσουσιν fut act ind 3pl Most assuredly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live.
- John 6:51 ζῶν ζήσει pres act ptcp nom sg masc fut act ind 3sg I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."
- John 6:57 ζῶν ζῶ ζήσει pres act ptcp nom sg masc pres act ind 1sg fut act ind 3sg As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
- John 6:58 ζήσει fut act ind 3sg This is the bread which came down out of heaven-- not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."
- John 7:38 ζῶντος pres act ptcp gen sg neut He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."
- John 11:25 ζήσεται fut mid.dep ind 3sg Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet will he live.
- John 11:26 ζῶν pres act ptcp nom sg masc Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
- John 14:19 ζῶ ζήσετε pres act ind 1sg fut act ind 2pl Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
Acts 12 verses
- Acts 1:3 ζῶντα pres act ptcp acc sg masc To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God's Kingdom.
- Acts 7:38 ζῶντα pres act ptcp acc pl neut This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us,
- Acts 9:41 ζῶσαν pres act ptcp acc sg fem He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.
- Acts 10:42 ζώντων pres act ptcp gen pl masc He charged us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.
- Acts 14:15 ζῶντα pres act ptcp acc sg masc "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;
- Acts 17:28 ζῶμεν pres act ind 1pl 'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'
- Acts 20:12 ζῶντα pres act ptcp acc sg masc They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.
- Acts 22:22 ζῆν pres act inf They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn't fit to live!"
- Acts 25:19 ζῆν pres act inf but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
- Acts 25:24 ζῆν pres act inf Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
- Acts 26:5 ἔζησα aor act ind 1sg having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
- Acts 28:4 ζῆν pres act inf When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live."
Romans 18 verses
- Romans 1:17 ζήσεται fut mid.dep ind 3sg For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."
- Romans 6:2 ζήσομεν fut act ind 1pl May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
- Romans 6:10 ζῇ ζῇ pres act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
- Romans 6:11 ζῶντας pres act ptcp acc pl masc Thus also consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 6:13 ζῶντας pres act ptcp acc pl masc Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
- Romans 7:1 ζῇ pres act ind 3sg Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
- Romans 7:2 ζῶντι pres act ptcp dat sg masc For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
- Romans 7:3 ζῶντος pres act ptcp gen sg masc So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
- Romans 7:9 ἔζων impf act ind 1sg I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
- Romans 8:12 ζῆν pres act inf So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
- Romans 8:13 ζῆτε ζήσεσθε pres act ind 2pl fut mid.dep ind 2pl For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
- Romans 9:26 ζῶντος pres act ptcp gen sg masc "It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"
- Romans 10:5 ζήσεται fut mid.dep ind 3sg For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."
- Romans 12:1 ζῶσαν pres act ptcp acc sg fem Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
- Romans 14:7 ζῇ pres act ind 3sg For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
- Romans 14:8 ζῶμεν ζῶμεν ζῶμεν pres act subj 1pl pres act ind 1pl pres act subj 1pl For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.
- Romans 14:9 ἔζησεν ζώντων aor act ind 3sg pres act ptcp gen pl masc For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
- Romans 14:11 ζῶ pres act ind 1sg For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"
1 Corinthians 3 verses
- 1 Corinthians 7:39 ζῇ pres act ind 3sg A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.
- 1 Corinthians 9:14 ζῆν pres act inf Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Gospel should live from the Gospel.
- 1 Corinthians 15:45 ζῶσαν pres act ptcp acc sg fem So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
2 Corinthians 7 verses
- 2 Corinthians 1:8 ζῆν pres act inf For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
- 2 Corinthians 3:3 ζῶντος pres act ptcp gen sg masc being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
- 2 Corinthians 4:11 ζῶντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
- 2 Corinthians 5:15 ζῶντες ζῶσιν pres act ptcp nom pl masc pres act subj 3pl He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
- 2 Corinthians 6:9 ζῶμεν pres act ind 1pl as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;
- 2 Corinthians 6:16 ζῶντος pres act ptcp gen sg masc What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
- 2 Corinthians 13:4 ζῇ ζήσομεν pres act ind 3sg fut act ind 1pl For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
Galatians 6 verses
- Galatians 2:14 ζῇς pres act ind 2sg But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
- Galatians 2:19 ζήσω aor act subj 1sg For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
- Galatians 2:20 ζῶ ζῇ ζῶ ζῶ pres act ind 1sg pres act ind 3sg pres act ind 1sg pres act ind 1sg I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
- Galatians 3:11 ζήσεται fut mid.dep ind 3sg Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."
- Galatians 3:12 ζήσεται fut mid.dep ind 3sg The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."
- Galatians 5:25 ζῶμεν pres act ind 1pl If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.
Philippians 2 verses
Colossians 2 verses
1 Thessalonians 5 verses
- 1 Thessalonians 1:9 ζῶντι pres act ptcp dat sg masc For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
- 1 Thessalonians 3:8 ζῶμεν pres act ind 1pl For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:15 ζῶντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:17 ζῶντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:10 ζήσωμεν aor act subj 1pl who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
1 Timothy 3 verses
- 1 Timothy 3:15 ζῶντος pres act ptcp gen sg masc but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
- 1 Timothy 4:10 ζῶντι pres act ptcp dat sg masc For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
- 1 Timothy 5:6 ζῶσα pres act ptcp nom sg fem But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
2 Timothy 2 verses
Titus 1 verse
Hebrews 12 verses
- Hebrews 2:15 ζῆν pres act inf and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
- Hebrews 3:12 ζῶντος pres act ptcp gen sg masc Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
- Hebrews 4:12 ζῶν pres act ptcp nom sg masc For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
- Hebrews 7:8 ζῇ pres act ind 3sg Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.
- Hebrews 7:25 ζῶν pres act ptcp nom sg masc Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.
- Hebrews 9:14 ζῶντι pres act ptcp dat sg masc how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
- Hebrews 9:17 ζῇ pres act ind 3sg For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.
- Hebrews 10:20 ζῶσαν pres act ptcp acc sg fem by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
- Hebrews 10:31 ζῶντος pres act ptcp gen sg masc It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
- Hebrews 10:38 ζήσεται fut mid.dep ind 3sg But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."
- Hebrews 12:9 ζήσομεν fut act ind 1pl Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
- Hebrews 12:22 ζῶντος pres act ptcp gen sg masc But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,
James 1 verse
1 Peter 7 verses
- 1 Peter 1:3 ζῶσαν pres act ptcp acc sg fem Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
- 1 Peter 1:23 ζῶντος pres act ptcp gen sg masc having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
- 1 Peter 2:4 ζῶντα pres act ptcp acc sg masc coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.
- 1 Peter 2:5 ζῶντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
- 1 Peter 2:24 ζήσωμεν aor act subj 1pl who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
- 1 Peter 4:5 ζῶντας pres act ptcp acc pl masc who will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
- 1 Peter 4:6 ζῶσι pres act subj 3pl For to this end was the Gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.
1 John 1 verse
Revelation 12 verses
- Revelation 1:18 ζῶν ζῶν pres act ptcp nom sg masc pres act ptcp nom sg masc and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
- Revelation 2:8 ἔζησεν aor act ind 3sg "To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: "The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:
- Revelation 3:1 ζῇς pres act ind 2sg "And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: "I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
- Revelation 4:9 ζῶντι pres act ptcp dat sg masc When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever,
- Revelation 4:10 ζῶντι pres act ptcp dat sg masc the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,
- Revelation 7:2 ζῶντος pres act ptcp gen sg masc I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea,
- Revelation 10:6 ζῶντι pres act ptcp dat sg masc and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,
- Revelation 13:14 ἔζησεν aor act ind 3sg He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.
- Revelation 15:7 ζῶντος pres act ptcp gen sg masc One of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
- Revelation 19:20 ζῶντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
- Revelation 20:4 ἔζησαν aor act ind 3pl I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn't worship the beast nor his image, and didn't receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for the thousand years.
- Revelation 20:5 ἔζησαν aor act ind 3pl The rest of the dead didn't live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“to live” is the headline sense of the Greek verb ζαω (záō). “liveth” is the historic King James Version rendering; modern versions use “living.” See the renderings breakdown. It turns up in 124 verses across 20 books, a common footprint. First canonically at Matthew 4:4, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 6 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 124-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2198 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 124
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 124 distinct verses.
- 20 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 20 of 27 New Testament books.
- #120
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 120 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 124 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 124 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 49 verses · 40%
- Gospels 30 verses · 24%
- Johannine 26 verses · 21%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 20 verses · 16%
- Hebrews 12 verses · 10%
- Revelation 12 verses · 10%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 9 verses · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Living 34×, Live 17×, Liveth 16×
- American Standard Version: Living 37×, Live 21×, Liveth 13×
- Berean Standard Bible: Living 38×, Live 19×, Will live 12×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Living 51×, Live 22×, Lives 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2198 across 147 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 27 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2198 across 146 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 31 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2198 across 140 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 25 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2198 across 150 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 26 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 6 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to live, breathe, be among the living (not lifeless, not dead)
- to have true life and worthy of the name
- active, blessed, endless in the kingdom of God
- to live i.e. pass life, in the manner of the living and acting
- living water, having vital power in itself and exerting the same upon the soul
- metaph. to be in full vigour
Word origin
Origin: a primary verb
A primary verb; to live (literally or figuratively): - life (-time) (a-) live (-ly) quick.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 32 distinct written forms G2198 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2198, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ζαω appears 439 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 404 verses in 31 books.
- 439
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 404
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 31 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 31 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:20 ζάω
- Exodus 4:18 ζάω
- Leviticus 11:10 ζάω
- Numbers 4:19 ζάω
- Deuteronomy 4:1 ζάω
- Joshua 3:10 ζάω
- Judges 8:19 ζάω
- Ruth 2:20 ζάω
- 1 Samuel 1:26 ζάω
- 2 Samuel 1:10 ζάω
- 1 Kings 1:25 ζάω
- 2 Kings 1:2 ζάω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2198) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 404. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:20 ζάω God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."
- Genesis 1:24 ζάω God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind," and it was so.
- Genesis 2:7 ζάω Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Genesis 2:19 ζάω Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
- Genesis 3:20 ζάω The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
- Genesis 3:22 ζάω Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
- Genesis 5:3 ζάω Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
- Genesis 5:5 ζάω All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:6 ζάω Seth lived one hundred five years, and became the father of Enosh.
- Genesis 5:7 ζάω Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:9 ζάω Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.
- Genesis 5:10 ζάω Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:12 ζάω Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.
- Genesis 5:13 ζάω Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of sons and daughters
- Genesis 5:15 ζάω Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Jared.
- Genesis 5:16 ζάω Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:18 ζάω Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, and became the father of Enoch.
- Genesis 5:19 ζάω Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:21 ζάω Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah.
- Genesis 5:25 ζάω Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.
- Genesis 5:26 ζάω Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:27 ζάω All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:28 ζάω Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of a son,
- Genesis 5:30 ζάω Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 8:21 ζάω Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
- Genesis 9:3 ζάω Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
- Genesis 9:10 ζάω and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every animal of the earth with you. Of all that go out of the ark, even every animal of the earth.
- Genesis 9:12 ζάω God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
- Genesis 9:15 ζάω and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- Genesis 9:16 ζάω The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
- Genesis 9:28 ζάω Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
- Genesis 11:11 ζάω Shem lived after he became the father of Arpachshad five hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:12 ζάω Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelah.
- Genesis 11:13 ζάω Arpachshad lived after he became the father of Shelah four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:14 ζάω Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:
- Genesis 11:15 ζάω and Shelah lived after he became the father of Eber four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:16 ζάω Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
- Genesis 11:17 ζάω Eber lived after he became the father of Peleg four hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:18 ζάω Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
- Genesis 11:19 ζάω Peleg lived after he became the father of Reu two hundred nine years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:20 ζάω Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
- Genesis 11:21 ζάω Reu lived after he became the father of Serug two hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:22 ζάω Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
- Genesis 11:23 ζάω Serug lived after he became the father of Nahor two hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:24 ζάω Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
- Genesis 11:25 ζάω Nahor lived after he became the father of Terah one hundred nineteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:26 ζάω Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
- Genesis 12:13 ζάω Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."
- Genesis 17:18 ζάω Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"
- Genesis 19:19 ζάω See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2198) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
