ζωοποιέω
to make alive
‘to make alive’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Present-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
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).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms 9 distinct
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 3 times (27%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter 1 time (9%)
+1 more form (1 occurrence)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 11 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2227 appears — 10 distinct verses across 6 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.
John 2 verses
- John 5:21 ζῳοποιεῖ ζῳοποιεῖ pres act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
- John 6:63 ζῳοποιοῦν pres act ptcp nom sg neut It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
Romans 2 verses
- Romans 4:17 ζῳοποιοῦντος pres act ptcp gen sg masc As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
- Romans 8:11 ζῳοποιήσει fut act ind 3sg But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
1 Corinthians 3 verses
- 1 Corinthians 15:22 ζῳοποιηθήσονται fut pass ind 3pl For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
- 1 Corinthians 15:36 ζῳοποιεῖται pres pass ind 3sg You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
- 1 Corinthians 15:45 ζῳοποιοῦν pres act ptcp acc sg neut So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
2 Corinthians 1 verse
Galatians 1 verse
1 Peter 1 verse
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.
ζωοποιεω (zōopoiéō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to make alive.” Where the King James Version says “quickeneth,” newer translations reach for “gives life” (Berean Standard Bible); the renderings breakdown has the detail. The Greek New Testament uses it across 10 verses — uncommon. 1 Corinthians dominates its distribution — 3 of 10 verses. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2227 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 →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #978
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 978 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 3 verses 30%
- John 2 verses 20%
- Romans 2 verses 20%
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 10 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 7 verses · 70%
- Gospels 2 verses · 20%
- Johannine 2 verses · 20%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 10%
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: Quickeneth 5×, Quickened 2×, Shall 2×
- American Standard Version: Giveth life 5×, Shall 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gives life 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Alive 2×, Make alive 2×, Makes alive 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2227 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 G2227 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 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 G2227 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 G2227 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 3 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 produce alive, begat or bear living young
- to cause to live, make alive, give life
- metaph., of seeds quickened into life, i.e. germinating, springing up, growing
Word origin
Derived from ζωον (zōon) (G2226) — animal.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G2227 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ζῳοποιεῖ zōopoieî | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | John 5:21 | 3 |
| ζῳοποιοῦν zōopoioûn | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 15:45 | 2 |
| ζῳοποιήσει zōopoiḗsei | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Romans 8:11 | 1 |
| ζῳοποιεῖται zōopoieîtai | Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Corinthians 15:36 | 1 |
| ζῳοποιηθήσονται zōopoiēthḗsontai | Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | 1 Corinthians 15:22 | 1 |
| ζῳοποιηθεὶς zōopoiētheìs | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Peter 3:18 | 1 |
| ζῳοποιοῦντος zōopoioûntos | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Romans 4:17 | 1 |
| ζῳοποιῆσαι zōopoiē̂sai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Galatians 3:21 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2227, 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 ζωοποιεω appears 8 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 8 verses in 6 books.
- 8
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 8
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Judges 21:14 ζωοποιέω
- 2 Kings 5:7 ζωοποιέω
- Ezra 9:8 ζωοποιέω
- Job 36:6 ζωοποιέω
- Psalms 70:20 ζωοποιέω
- Ecclesiastes 7:12 ζωοποιέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2227) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Judges 21:14 ζωοποιέω Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead: and yet so they weren't enough for them.
- 2 Kings 5:7 ζωοποιέω It happened, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he tore his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man does send to me to recover a man of his leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.
- Ezra 9:8 ζωοποιέω Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
- Ezra 9:9 ζωοποιέω For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins of it, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
- Ezra 19:6 ζωοποιέω
- Job 36:6 ζωοποιέω He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, But gives to the afflicted their right.
- Psalms 70:20 ζωοποιέω
- Ecclesiastes 7:12 ζωοποιέω For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2227) 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.
