ζωή
life
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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- 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.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 60 times (44%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 47 times (35%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 24 times (18%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 4 times (3%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 135 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2222 appears — 127 distinct verses across 22 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 7 verses
- Matthew 7:14 ζωήν n acc sg fem How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.
- Matthew 18:8 ζωὴν n acc sg fem If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.
- Matthew 18:9 ζωὴν n acc sg fem If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.
- Matthew 19:16 ζωὴν n acc sg fem Behold, one came to him and said, "Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?"
- Matthew 19:17 ζωὴν n acc sg fem He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
- Matthew 19:29 ζωὴν n acc sg fem Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
- Matthew 25:46 ζωὴν n acc sg fem These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
Mark 4 verses
- Mark 9:43 ζωὴν n acc sg fem If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,
- Mark 9:45 ζωὴν n acc sg fem If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched--
- Mark 10:17 ζωὴν n acc sg fem As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"
- Mark 10:30 ζωὴν n acc sg fem but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
Luke 5 verses
- Luke 10:25 ζωὴν n acc sg fem Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
- Luke 12:15 ζωὴ n nom sg fem He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."
- Luke 16:25 ζωῇ n dat sg fem "But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in like manner, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
- Luke 18:18 ζωὴν n acc sg fem A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
- Luke 18:30 ζωὴν n acc sg fem who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life."
John 32 verses
- John 1:4 ζωὴ ζωὴ n nom sg fem n nom sg fem In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
- John 3:15 ζωὴν n acc sg fem that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
- John 3:16 ζωὴν n acc sg fem For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
- John 3:36 ζωὴν ζωήν n acc sg fem n acc sg fem One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
- John 4:14 ζωὴν n acc sg fem but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."
- John 4:36 ζωὴν n acc sg fem He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
- John 5:24 ζωὴν ζωήν n acc sg fem n acc sg fem "Most assuredly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
- John 5:26 ζωὴν ζωὴν n acc sg fem n acc sg fem For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
- John 5:29 ζωῆς n gen sg fem and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.
- John 5:39 ζωὴν n acc sg fem "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
- John 5:40 ζωὴν n acc sg fem Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
- John 6:27 ζωὴν n acc sg fem Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."
- John 6:33 ζωὴν n acc sg fem For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."
- John 6:35 ζωῆς n gen sg fem Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
- John 6:40 ζωὴν n acc sg fem This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."
- John 6:47 ζωὴν n acc sg fem Most assuredly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.
- John 6:48 ζωῆς n gen sg fem I am the bread of life.
- John 6:51 ζωῆς n gen sg fem 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 6:53 ζωὴν n acc sg fem Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.
- John 6:54 ζωὴν n acc sg fem He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
- John 6:63 ζωή n nom sg fem It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
- John 6:68 ζωῆς n gen sg fem Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
- John 8:12 ζωῆς n gen sg fem Again, therefore, Jesus 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."
- John 10:10 ζωὴν n acc sg fem The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
- John 10:28 ζωὴν n acc sg fem I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
- John 11:25 ζωή n nom sg fem Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet will he live.
- John 12:25 ζωὴν n acc sg fem He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
- John 12:50 ζωὴ n nom sg fem I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak."
- John 14:6 ζωή n nom sg fem Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
- John 17:2 ζωὴν n acc sg fem even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
- John 17:3 ζωή n nom sg fem This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
- John 20:31 ζωὴν n acc sg fem but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
Acts 8 verses
- Acts 2:28 ζωῆς n gen sg fem You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.'
- Acts 3:15 ζωῆς n gen sg fem and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
- Acts 5:20 ζωῆς n gen sg fem "Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life."
- Acts 8:33 ζωὴ n nom sg fem In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth."
- Acts 11:18 ζωὴν n acc sg fem When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!"
- Acts 13:46 ζωῆς n gen sg fem Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
- Acts 13:48 ζωὴν n acc sg fem As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
- Acts 17:25 ζωὴν n acc sg fem neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.
Romans 14 verses
- Romans 2:7 ζωὴν n acc sg fem to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruptibility, eternal life;
- Romans 5:10 ζωῇ n dat sg fem For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
- Romans 5:17 ζωῇ n dat sg fem For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
- Romans 5:18 ζωῆς n gen sg fem So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
- Romans 5:21 ζωὴν n acc sg fem that as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Romans 6:4 ζωῆς n gen sg fem We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
- Romans 6:22 ζωὴν n acc sg fem But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
- Romans 6:23 ζωὴ n nom sg fem For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 7:10 ζωὴν n acc sg fem The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
- Romans 8:2 ζωῆς n gen sg fem For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
- Romans 8:6 ζωὴ n nom sg fem For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
- Romans 8:10 ζωὴ n nom sg fem If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
- Romans 8:38 ζωὴ n nom sg fem For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
- Romans 11:15 ζωὴ n nom sg fem For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
1 Corinthians 2 verses
2 Corinthians 5 verses
- 2 Corinthians 2:16 ζωῆς ζωήν n gen sg fem n acc sg fem to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
- 2 Corinthians 4:10 ζωὴ n nom sg fem always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
- 2 Corinthians 4:11 ζωὴ n nom sg fem 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 4:12 ζωὴ n nom sg fem So then death works in us, but life in you.
- 2 Corinthians 5:4 ζωῆς n gen sg fem For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
Galatians 1 verse
Ephesians 1 verse
Philippians 3 verses
- Philippians 1:20 ζωῆς n gen sg fem according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
- Philippians 2:16 ζωῆς n gen sg fem holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.
- Philippians 4:3 ζωῆς n gen sg fem Yes, I beg you also, true yoke-fellow, help these women, for they labored with me in the Gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
Colossians 2 verses
1 Timothy 4 verses
- 1 Timothy 1:16 ζωὴν n acc sg fem However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
- 1 Timothy 4:8 ζωῆς n gen sg fem For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value for all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
- 1 Timothy 6:12 ζωῆς n gen sg fem Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
- 1 Timothy 6:19 ζωῆς n gen sg fem laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.
2 Timothy 2 verses
- 2 Timothy 1:1 ζωῆς n gen sg fem Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
- 2 Timothy 1:10 ζωὴν n acc sg fem but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel.
Titus 2 verses
Hebrews 2 verses
- Hebrews 7:3 ζωῆς n gen sg fem without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.
- Hebrews 7:16 ζωῆς n gen sg fem who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:
James 2 verses
- James 1:12 ζωῆς n gen sg fem Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
- James 4:14 ζωὴ n nom sg fem Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
1 Peter 2 verses
- 1 Peter 3:7 ζωῆς n gen sg fem You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
- 1 Peter 3:10 ζωὴν n acc sg fem For, "He who would love life, And see good days, Let him keep his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking deceit.
2 Peter 1 verse
1 John 10 verses
- 1 John 1:1 ζωῆς n gen sg fem That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life
- 1 John 1:2 ζωὴ ζωὴν n nom sg fem n acc sg fem (and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);
- 1 John 2:25 ζωὴν n acc sg fem This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
- 1 John 3:14 ζωήν n acc sg fem We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.
- 1 John 3:15 ζωὴν n acc sg fem Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
- 1 John 5:11 ζωὴν ζωὴ n acc sg fem n nom sg fem The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
- 1 John 5:12 ζωήν ζωὴν n acc sg fem n acc sg fem He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life.
- 1 John 5:13 ζωὴν n acc sg fem These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
- 1 John 5:16 ζωήν n acc sg fem If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don't say that he should make a request concerning this.
- 1 John 5:20 ζωὴ n nom sg fem We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Jude 1 verse
Revelation 17 verses
- Revelation 2:7 ζωῆς n gen sg fem He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
- Revelation 2:10 ζωῆς n gen sg fem Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
- Revelation 3:5 ζωῆς n gen sg fem He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
- Revelation 7:17 ζωῆς n gen sg fem for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."
- Revelation 11:11 ζωῆς n gen sg fem After the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them.
- Revelation 13:8 ζωῆς n gen sg fem All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
- Revelation 16:3 ζωῆς n gen sg fem The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died.
- Revelation 17:8 ζωῆς n gen sg fem The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.
- Revelation 20:12 ζωῆς n gen sg fem I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
- Revelation 20:15 ζωῆς n gen sg fem If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
- Revelation 21:6 ζωῆς n gen sg fem He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
- Revelation 21:27 ζωῆς n gen sg fem There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
- Revelation 22:1 ζωῆς n gen sg fem He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
- Revelation 22:2 ζωῆς n gen sg fem in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
- Revelation 22:14 ζωῆς n gen sg fem Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
- Revelation 22:17 ζωῆς n gen sg fem The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" He who hears, let him say, "Come!" He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.
- Revelation 22:19 ζωῆς n gen sg fem If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.
About this entry
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At its core, ζωη (zōḗ) means “life.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 7:14. It appears 127 verses across 22 books of the Greek New Testament, among its common vocabulary. The word gravitates to John (25%), then Revelation and Romans. Sharing its root, it stands alongside ζαω and ζωον. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2222 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 →
- 127
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 127 distinct verses.
- 22 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 22 of 27 New Testament books.
- #124
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 124 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 127 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- John 32 verses 25%
- Revelation 17 verses 13%
- Romans 14 verses 11%
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 127 distinct verses.
- Johannine 59 verses · 46%
- Gospels 48 verses · 38%
- Pauline corpus 36 verses · 28%
- Revelation 17 verses · 13%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 16 verses · 13%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 13 verses · 10%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 2%
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: Life 130×, Is life 2×
- American Standard Version: Life 129×, Is life 2×, Of 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Life 129×, Living 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Life 130×, Of 4×, Is 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2222 across 134 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2222 across 138 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 G2222 across 134 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2222 across 141 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 1 sense 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.
- life
Word origin
Derived from ζαω (záō) (G2198) — to live.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G2222 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ζωὴν zōḕn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 18:8 | 53 |
| ζωῆς zōē̂s | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | John 5:29 | 47 |
| ζωὴ zōḕ | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 12:15 | 20 |
| ζωήν zōḗn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 7:14 | 7 |
| ζωή zōḗ | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | John 6:63 | 4 |
| ζωῇ zōē̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 16:25 | 4 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2222, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ζωη appears 184 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 174 verses in 22 books.
- 184
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 174
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 22 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 22 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:30 ζωή
- Exodus 1:14 ζωή
- Deuteronomy 4:9 ζωή
- Joshua 1:5 ζωή
- Judges 6:4 ζωή
- 1 Samuel 7:15 ζωή
- 2 Samuel 1:23 ζωή
- 1 Kings 2:46 ζωή
- 2 Kings 8:10 ζωή
- Ezra 6:10 ζωή
- Job 3:20 ζωή
- Psalms 7:6 ζωή
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2222) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 174. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:30 ζωή To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food." And it was so.
- Genesis 2:7 ζωή 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 2:9 ζωή Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- Genesis 3:14 ζωή Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:17 ζωή To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:20 ζωή The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
- Genesis 3:22 ζωή 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 3:24 ζωή So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
- Genesis 6:17 ζωή I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
- Genesis 7:11 ζωή In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.
- Genesis 7:15 ζωή They went to Noah into the ark, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.
- Genesis 7:22 ζωή All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
- Genesis 8:13 ζωή It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.
- Genesis 23:1 ζωή Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. These were the years of Sarah's life.
- Genesis 25:7 ζωή These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
- Genesis 25:17 ζωή These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.
- Genesis 27:46 ζωή Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"
- Genesis 45:5 ζωή Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
- Genesis 47:8 ζωή Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?"
- Genesis 47:9 ζωή Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
- Genesis 47:28 ζωή Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.
- Exodus 1:14 ζωή and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
- Exodus 6:16 ζωή These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years.
- Exodus 6:18 ζωή The sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred thirty-three years.
- Exodus 6:20 ζωή Amram took Jochebed his father's sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years.
- Deuteronomy 4:9 ζωή Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children;
- Deuteronomy 6:2 ζωή that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
- Deuteronomy 16:3 ζωή You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shall you eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
- Deuteronomy 17:19 ζωή and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
- Deuteronomy 28:66 ζωή and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.
- Deuteronomy 30:15 ζωή Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;
- Deuteronomy 30:19 ζωή I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
- Deuteronomy 30:20 ζωή to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cleave to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
- Deuteronomy 32:47 ζωή For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.
- Joshua 1:5 ζωή There shall not any man be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you, nor forsake you.
- Joshua 10:40 ζωή So Joshua struck all the land, the hill-country, and the South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.
- Judges 6:4 ζωή and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.
- Judges 16:30 ζωή Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.
- Judges 17:10 ζωή Micah said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten [pieces] of silver by the year, and a suit of clothing, and your food. So the Levite went in.
- 1 Samuel 7:15 ζωή Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
- 1 Samuel 25:29 ζωή Though men be risen up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God; and the souls of your enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.
- 2 Samuel 1:23 ζωή Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, In their death they were not divided: They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger than lions.
- 2 Samuel 15:21 ζωή Ittai answered the king, and said, As Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, even there also will your servant be.
- 2 Samuel 19:35 ζωή I am this day eighty years old: can I discern between good and bad? can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?
- 1 Kings 2:46 ζωή So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 11:34 ζωή However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant's sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;
- 1 Kings 15:5 ζωή because David did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and didn't turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
- 2 Kings 8:10 ζωή Elisha said to him, Go, tell him, You shall surely recover; however Yahweh has shown me that he shall surely die.
- 2 Kings 8:14 ζωή Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to you? He answered, He told me that you would surely recover.
- 2 Kings 25:29 ζωή and changed his prison garments. [Jehoiachin] ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2222) 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.
