Gloss
to be alive, to live a life; in the NT this can also refer to the resurrection life, Jesus Christ is then the Living One
Forms of the word
Dictionary
ζάω
Greek transliteration
zaō
Simplified transliteration
zao
Principal Parts
ζήσω <ε>ορ</ε> ζήσομαι, ἔζησα, -, -, -
Numbers
Strong's number
2198
GK Number
2409
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
140
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
v-1d(1a)
Definition
Greek-English Concordance for ζάω
| 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. |
