ζωή | Bill Mounce

Vocabulary Form

ζωή, -ῆς, ἡ

Definition

life

Erasmian

Modern

Root

ζωη

Frequency

135

2437

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.

Song

Verse

“I am the resurrection and the ζωή.” (John 11:25)

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.