Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

ζωή

Vocabulary form: 
zwhv, -h:V, hJ
Definition: 

life

Frequency: 
135
GK: 
2437
Root: 
zwh
Cognates: 

Zoology is the study of animal life.

Mnemonics: 

Zoe loved life.

Mnemonic Singing: 

Take my life and let it be,
consecrated Lord to thee.

Biblical Concordance

Matthew 7:14 How narrow is the gate and difficult the way that leads to life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem), and few are those who find it!
Matthew 18:8 “If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem) crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into eternal fire.
Matthew 18:9 And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem) with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.
Matthew 19:16 A young man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do so that I may have eternal life?” (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem)
Matthew 19:17 And Jesus replied “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you want to enter life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem), keep the commandments.”
Matthew 19:29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for my name’s sake will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem).
Matthew 25:46 And these will depart to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem)
Mark 9:43 And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem) crippled than having two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.
Mark 9:45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem) lame than having two feet to be cast into hell.
Mark 10:17 And as he was going out on the road, a man ran up, and kneeling before him, asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem)
Mark 10:30 who will not receive one hundredfold now in this present time — houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, with persecutions — and in the coming age, eternal life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem).
Luke 10:25 Once a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem)
Luke 12:15 And he said to them, “Watch out and be on guard against all types of greed, because one’s life (zōē | ζωή | nom sg fem) does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
Luke 16:25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you received your good things during your lifetime (zōē | ζωῇ | dat sg fem), and Lazarus correspondingly received bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.
Luke 18:18 Now a certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem)
Luke 18:30 who will not receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life.” (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem)
John 1:4 In him was life (zōē | ζωή | nom sg fem), and that life (zōē | ζωή | nom sg fem) was the light of men.
John 3:15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem).
John 3:16 “For this is how God loved the world: he gave his one and only Son that everyone who believes in him should not perish but have eternal life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem).
John 3:36 The one who believes in the Son has eternal life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem); but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem), but the wrath of God remains on him.
John 4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water gushing up to eternal life.” (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem)
John 4:36 The reaper is already receiving wages and gathering a crop for eternal life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem), so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
John 5:24 I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem) and will not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem).
John 5:26 For as the Father has life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem) in himself, so also has he granted the Son to have life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem) in himself;
John 5:29 and will come out — those who have done good, to a resurrection unto life (zōēs | ζωῆς | gen sg fem), and those who have practiced evil, to a resurrection unto condemnation.
John 5:39 “You study the Scriptures because you think that by them you will have eternal life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem); and it is they that bear witness about me,
John 5:40 but you refuse to come to me that you may have life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem).
John 6:27 Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that lasts for eternal life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem), which the Son of Man will give you; for on him God the Father has set his seal.”
John 6:33 For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem) to the world.”
John 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life (zōēs | ζωῆς | gen sg fem); the one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty again.
John 6:40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who considers the Son and comes to believe in him should have eternal life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem), and I will raise him up on the last day.”
John 6:47 I tell you the solemn truth, the one who believes has eternal life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem).
John 6:48 I am the bread of life (zōēs | ζωῆς | gen sg fem).
John 6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh — given on behalf of the world.”
John 6:53 Jesus therefore said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will have no life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem) in you.
John 6:54 The one who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem), and I will raise him up on the last day;
John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life (zōē | ζωή | nom sg fem).
John 6:68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life (zōēs | ζωῆς | gen sg fem),
John 8:12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” (zōēs | ζωῆς | gen sg fem)
John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy; I have come that they may have life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem), and have it abundantly.
John 10:28 and I give them eternal life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem). They will never perish, and no one will ever snatch them out of my hand.
John 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life (zōē | ζωή | nom sg fem). The one who believes in me, even though he die, yet will he live,
John 12:25 The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world preserves it for eternal life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem).
John 12:50 And I know that his command is eternal life (zōē | ζωή | nom sg fem). So whatever I say, I speak just as the Father has told me.”
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life (zōē | ζωή | nom sg fem). No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 17:2 since you have given him authority over all flesh, that he should give eternal life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem) to those you have given to him.
John 17:3 And this is eternal life (zōē | ζωή | nom sg fem), that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you sent.
John 20:31 but these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life (zōēn | ζωήν | acc sg fem) in his name.
Acts 2:28 You have made known to me the paths of life (zōēs | ζωῆς | gen sg fem); you will make me full of joy with your presence.’
Acts 3:15 and you killed the Originator of life (zōēs | ζωῆς | gen sg fem), whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

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