βίος bios

Greek word for “life” · Strong’s G979 · used 10 times in 10 verses

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Meaning

βίος, -ου, ὁ; 1. period or course of life, life:.;

How it is translated

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

• life 4
• livelihood 2
• living 2
• property 1
• goods 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Luke 8 (2), Luke 15 (2), Mark 12 (1), Luke 21 (1), 1 Timothy 2 (1), 2 Timothy 2 (1), 1 John 2 (1), 1 John 3 (1)

Forms

• βίον 7
• βίου 3

Words used with it

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

• περισσεύω perisseuō “to exceed” 2
• ὅλος holos “all” 2
• βάλλω ballō “to throw” 2
• κόσμος kosmos “world” 2
• οὐδείς oudeis “none” 2
• πατήρ patēr “father” 2

Key verses

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

• Mark 12:44 — For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
• Luke 8:14 — And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no…
• Luke 8:43 — And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
• Luke 15:12 — And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
• Luke 15:30 — But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
• Luke 21:4 — For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.
• 1 Timothy 2:2 — For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
• 2 Timothy 2:4 — No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
• 1 John 2:16 — For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
• 1 John 3:17 — But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

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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.