ζάω zaō

Greek word for “to live” · Strong’s G2198 · used 140 times in 124 verses

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Meaning

ζάω, -ῶ; 1. prop., to live, be alive (see Syn., see word βίος; in cl.

How it is translated

Glosses given for zaō in context, with how often each is used:

• living 55
• live 23
• will live 18
• may live 9
• lives 8
• alive 7
• living? 2
• shall live 2
• lived 2
• having lived 1
• live! 1
• lived as 1

Where it is used

Also in 8 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

John 4 (5), Romans 6 (4), Romans 7 (4), Romans 14 (4), John 6 (3), Galatians 2 (3), Hebrews 10 (3), 1 Peter 2 (3), Luke 15 (2), Luke 24 (2)

Forms

• ζῶντος 14
• ζῇ 13
• ζῆν 12
• ζῶν 11
• ζήσεται 9
• ζῶμεν 7
• ζῶντι 7
• ζῶντες 7
• ζῶντα 6
• ζῶ 6

Words used with it

Words that share verses with zaō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• νεκρός nekros “dead” 20
• ἀποθνήσκω apothnēskō “to die” 19
• αἰών aiōn “an age” 9
• σάρξ sarx “flesh” 9
• ἐάν ean “if” 10
• νόμος nomos “law” 8
• γράφω graphō “to write” 8
• ὑπέρ huper “above/for” 7
• υἱός uhios “son” 9
• πνεῦμα pneuma “spirit/breath” 9
• δίδωμι didōmi “to give” 9
• ἄγγελος angelos “angel” 7

Key verses

The verses using zaō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• John 11:25 — Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
• Acts 14:15 — And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the…
• Romans 12:1 — I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable…
• 2 Corinthians 6:16 — And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I…
• Galatians 2:20 — I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son…
• Hebrews 4:12 — For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints…
• Hebrews 7:25 — Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
• Hebrews 9:14 — How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the…
• 1 Peter 1:3 — Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of…
• 1 Peter 2:5 — Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
• 1 Peter 2:24 — Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
• Revelation 19:20 — And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.