ζωοποιέω
zōopoiéō · G2227 · Greek · 11 occurrences
Meanings
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to give life to, to make live
To cause to live
ExamplesJohn 5:21 “For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.
John 6:63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh provides no benefit; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life.
Romans 4:17 (as it is written: “I HAVE MADE YOU A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, that is, God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that do not exist.
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
11 occurrences in 8 groups
- Not stated (participle) 4
- ἐγείρωto raise, to get up 1
- πᾶςall, every, each 1
- πνεῦμαspirit 1
- σπείρωto sow 1
- υἱόςson 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
3 occurrences in 5 groups
- ἐγείρωto raise, to get up 1
- ζωοποιέωto give life to 1
- θέλωto want, to wish, to desire 1
- νεκρόςdead, the dead 1
- σῶμαbody 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- διάthrough+ πνεῦμαspirit 1
With adverbsAdverbs
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- οὕτωso, thus, in this way 2
- καίand 1
- οὐnot 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- θεόςGod 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ζωοποιέωto give life to 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πνεῦμαspirit 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- To give life to, to make live23.92
- In Romans 8:11, Paul writes that the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead “will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you,” using this verb for God's act of granting life.
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ζοωποιῶ; future ζοωποιήσω; 1 aorist infinitive ζωποιησαι; passive, present ζοωποιοῦμαι; 1…
1. to produce alive, beget or bear living young (Aristotle, Theophrastus).
2. to cause to live, make alive, give life: τά πάντα, of God, 1 Tim 6:18 R G (cf. Neh 9:6; 2 Kgs 5:7; Diogn., epistle 5 [ET] at the end); by spiritual power to arouse and invigorate, 2 Cor 3:6; Gal 3:21; to give ζωή αἰώνιος (in the Johannine sense), Jn 6:63; of the dead, to reanimate, restore to life: 1 Cor 15:45; τινα, Jn 5:21; Rom 4:17; Rom 8:11; passive 1 Cor 15:22; equivalent to to give increase of life: thus of physical life, πρῶτον τό παιδίον μέλιτι, εἶτα γάλακτι ζοωποιειται, the Epistle of Barnabas 6, 17 [ET]; of the spirit, ζοωποιηθεις πνεύματι, quickened as respects the spirit, endued with new and greater powers of life, 1 Pet 3:18, on which cf. Lechler, Das apost. u. nachapost. Zeitalter, p. 182 edition 2; (Zezschwitz, De Christi ad inferos descensu (Lipsius 1857), p. 20). metaphorically (Geoponica 9, 11, 7) of seeds quickening into life, i. e. germinating, springing up, growing: 1 Cor 15:36. (Compare: συζοωποιέω.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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