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βιωτικός

relating to life

G982 Strong's Greek
biōtikós Transliteration
/bee-o-tee-kos'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 3 appearances

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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.

The Greek adjective βιωτικος centers on the idea of “relating to life.” It is rare — just 3 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. 1 Corinthians dominates its distribution — 2 of 3 verses. First canonically at Luke 21:34, it enters the text early. Related forms include βιοω and βιωσις. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
of this life
Modern gloss
relating to life
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G982 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 →

3
distinct verses
The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
2 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
Luke 21:34
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Luke 21:34.
1 Corinthians 6:4
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 1 Corinthians 6:4.
#2,203
by frequency
Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 1 · 33%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 2 · 67%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 3 distinct verses.

  • Pauline corpus 2 verses · 67%
  • Gospels 1 verse · 33%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 33%

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 1×, Things pertaining to this life 1×, Things that pertain to this life 1×
  • American Standard Version: Life 1×, Things pertaining to this life 1×, Things that pertain to this life 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Everyday matters 1×, Life 1×, Things of this life 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: About things of this life 1×, Everyday 1×, Matters of this life 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G982 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Life” 1×
  • “Things pertaining to this life” 1×
  • “Things that pertain to this life” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G982 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Life” 1×
  • “Things pertaining to this life” 1×
  • “Things that pertain to this life” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G982 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Everyday matters” 1×
  • “Life” 1×
  • “Things of this life” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G982 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “About things of this life” 1×
  • “Everyday” 1×
  • “Matters of this life” 1×

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.

  1. pertaining to life and the affairs of this life

Word origin

Derived from βιοω (bióō) (G980) — to live.

Part of speech: Adjective

From a derivative of G980 ; relating to the present existence : - of (pertaining to things that pertain to) this life.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 3 distinct written forms G982 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
βιωτικά biōtiká Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 1 Corinthians 6:3 1
βιωτικαῖς biōtikaîs Adjective, Dative, Plural, Feminine Luke 21:34 1
βιωτικὰ biōtikà Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 1 Corinthians 6:4 1

Same root — word family

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