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Vocabulary form:

zavw

Definition:

I live

Erasmian:

Modern:

Frequency:

140

GK:

2409

Root:

Forms:

zhvsw or zhvsomai, e[zhsa, -, -, -

Cognates:

Zoology is the study of life. Klein argues that this is from the modern Greek zw/ologiva, which in turn is based on zw:/on + logiva.

Mnemonic Singing:

May the mind of Christ my Savior
live in me from day to day.

Biblical Concordance

Matthew 4:4	But he replied, “Man does (zēsetai \| ζήσεται \| fut mid ind 3 sg) not live (zēsetai \| ζήσεται \| fut mid ind 3 sg) on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”
Matthew 9:18	As he was saying these things a ruler came and bowed down before him, saying, “My daughter has just died; but come, lay your hand on her and she will live (zēsetai \| ζήσεται \| fut mid ind 3 sg) again.”
Matthew 16:16	And Simon Peter answered, saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living (zōntos \| ζῶντος \| pres act ptcp gen sg masc) God.”
Matthew 22:32	‘I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.” (zōntōn \| ζώντων \| pres act ptcp gen pl masc)
Matthew 26:63	But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to him, “I put you under oath by the living (zōntos \| ζῶντος \| pres act ptcp gen sg masc) God, tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God.”
Matthew 27:63	They said, “Sir, we remember that while (zōn \| ζῶν \| pres act ptcp nom sg masc) he (zōn \| ζῶν \| pres act ptcp nom sg masc) was (zōn \| ζῶν \| pres act ptcp nom sg masc) still alive (zōn \| ζῶν \| pres act ptcp nom sg masc) that impostor said, ‘After three days I will be raised.’
Mark 5:23	and begged him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter “My is about to die. is about Come and place your hands on her so she will be healed and live.” (zēsē \| ζήσῃ \| aor act subj 3 sg)
Mark 12:27	He is not God of the dead, but of the living (zōntōn \| ζώντων \| pres act ptcp gen pl masc). You are greatly mistaken!”
Mark 16:11	And when they heard that he was alive (zē \| ζῇ \| pres act ind 3 sg) and had been seen by her, they refused to believe it.
Luke 2:36	Now there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived (zēsasa \| ζήσασα \| aor act ptcp nom sg fem) with her husband seven years from her virginity,
Luke 4:4	And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall (zēsetai \| ζήσεται \| fut mid ind 3 sg) not live (zēsetai \| ζήσεται \| fut mid ind 3 sg) by bread alone.’”
Luke 10:28	Jesus said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” (zēsē \| ζήσῃ \| fut mid ind 2 sg)
Luke 15:13	Not many days later, the younger son gathered up everything and left for a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his property by living (zōn \| ζῶν \| pres act ptcp nom sg masc) recklessly.
Luke 15:32	We had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours, was dead and has come alive (ezēsen \| ἔζησεν \| aor act ind 3 sg); he was lost and has been found.’”
Luke 20:38	He is not God of the dead, but of the living! (zōntōn \| ζώντων \| pres act ptcp gen pl masc) For to him they (zōsin \| ζῶσιν \| pres act ind 3 pl) are (zōsin \| ζῶσιν \| pres act ind 3 pl) all alive.” (zōsin \| ζῶσιν \| pres act ind 3 pl)
Luke 24:5	The women were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living (zōnta \| ζῶντα \| pres act ptcp acc sg masc) among the dead?
Luke 24:23	and not finding his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive (zēn \| ζῆν \| pres act inf ).
John 4:10	Jesus answered her, saying, “If you had known the gift of God and who it was that said to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living (zōn \| ζῶν \| pres act ptcp acc sg neut) water.”
John 4:11	The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket and the well is deep. How then are you going to draw the living (zōn \| ζῶν \| pres act ptcp acc sg neut) water?
John 4:50	Jesus replied “Go, your son lives.” (zē \| ζῇ \| pres act ind 3 sg) The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he set off for home.
John 4:51	While he was still on his way down his servants met him and told him that his son was living (zē \| ζῇ \| pres act ind 3 sg).
John 4:53	Then the father realized that was at that very hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son lives,” (zē \| ζῇ \| pres act ind 3 sg) and he became a believer, as did his entire household.
John 5:25	“I tell you the solemn truth, the hour is coming and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live (zēsousin \| ζήσουσιν \| fut act ind 3 pl).
John 6:51	I am the living (zōn \| ζῶν \| pres act ptcp nom sg masc) bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live (zēsei \| ζήσει \| fut act ind 3 sg) forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh — given on behalf of the world.”
John 6:57	As the living (zōn \| ζῶν \| pres act ptcp nom sg masc) Father sent me, and I live (zō \| ζῶ \| pres act ind 1 sg) because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live (zēsei \| ζήσει \| fut act ind 3 sg) because of me.
John 6:58	This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like that which your fathers ate and died. The one who feeds on this bread will live (zēsei \| ζήσει \| fut act ind 3 sg) forever.”
John 7:38	The one who believes in me, as the scripture says, “Out of his heart will flow rivers of living (zōntos \| ζῶντος \| pres act ptcp gen sg neut) water.’”
John 11:25	Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even though he die, yet will he live (zēsetai \| ζήσεται \| fut mid ind 3 sg),
John 11:26	and everyone who lives (zōn \| ζῶν \| pres act ptcp nom sg masc) and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
John 14:19	In a little while the world will see me no longer, but you will see me; because I live (zō \| ζῶ \| pres act ind 1 sg), you too will live (zēsete \| ζήσετε \| fut act ind 2 pl).
Acts 1:3	to whom also he presented himself alive (zōnta \| ζῶντα \| pres act ptcp acc sg masc) after his passion by many proofs, being seen by them over a period of forty days and telling them what concerns the kingdom of God.
Acts 7:38	He is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, and he received living (zōnta \| ζῶντα \| pres act ptcp acc pl neut) oracles to give to us.
Acts 9:41	And he gave her his hand and raised her up; then he called the saints and widows and presented her alive (zōsan \| ζῶσαν \| pres act ptcp acc sg fem).
Acts 10:42	And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God to be judge of the living (zōntōn \| ζώντων \| pres act ptcp gen pl masc) and the dead.
Acts 14:15	saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? For we too are men subject to the same frailties as you, bringing you good news to turn away from these vain things to the living (zōnta \| ζῶντα \| pres act ptcp acc sg masc) God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,
Acts 17:28	‘For in him we live (zōmen \| ζῶμεν \| pres act ind 1 pl) and move about and exist,’ as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’
Acts 20:12	And they took the boy home alive (zōnta \| ζῶντα \| pres act ptcp acc sg masc) and were encouraged not a little.
Acts 22:22	They listened to him until this word, but then they raised their voices saying, saying “Away with such a fellow from the earth, for it is not right for him to live!” (zēn \| ζῆν \| pres act inf )
Acts 25:19	but had certain questions about their own religion to put to him and about a certain Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul claimed to be alive (zēn \| ζῆν \| pres act inf ).
Acts 25:24	And Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all men present with us, you see this man about whom the whole Jewish people petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out that he ought not to live (zēn \| ζῆν \| pres act inf ) any longer.
Acts 26:5	for they have known from the first, if they are willing to go on record, that I (ezēsa \| ἔζησα \| aor act ind 1 sg) lived (ezēsa \| ἔζησα \| aor act ind 1 sg) as a Pharisee according to the strictest party of our religious system.
Acts 28:4	When the native people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “Certainly this man is a murderer, and though he has escaped from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live.” (zēn \| ζῆν \| pres act inf )
Romans 1:17	For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The righteous by faith will live.” (zēsetai \| ζήσεται \| fut mid ind 3 sg)
Romans 6:2	By no means! How can (zēsomen \| ζήσομεν \| fut act ind 1 pl) we who died to sin go on living (zēsomen \| ζήσομεν \| fut act ind 1 pl) in it?
Romans 6:10	For the death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives (zē \| ζῇ \| pres act ind 3 sg), he lives (zē \| ζῇ \| pres act ind 3 sg) to God.
Romans 6:11	So you too consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive (zōntas \| ζῶντας \| pres act ptcp acc pl masc) to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:13	Do not continue to present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive (zōntas \| ζῶντας \| pres act ptcp acc pl masc) from the dead, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
Romans 7:1	Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is binding on a person only so long as he lives (zē \| ζῇ \| pres act ind 3 sg)?
Romans 7:2	Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living (zōnti \| ζῶντι \| pres act ptcp dat sg masc); but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
Romans 7:3	Accordingly, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive (zōntos \| ζῶντος \| pres act ptcp gen sg masc), she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

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