βιόω
bióō · G980 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to live, daily life, life, existence
To conduct oneself, with focus upon everyday activity
Examples1 Peter 4:2 so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human lusts, but for the will of God.
How it’s used In 4 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- σάρξflesh, body, physical body 1
- χρόνοςtime 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μηκέτιno longer 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 2
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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Near synonyms 2 words
- ζάω záō · G2198 · to be alive, to live, to come back to life
- The most common Greek verb for 'to live,' closely overlapping with βιόω in the sense of spending one's existence or being alive. Both express the action of living, though ζάω is far more frequent and has broader usage, while βιόω (occurring only once) emphasizes the conduct or spending of one's life.
- διάγω diágō · G1236 · to live, to conduct oneself, to behave
- A verb meaning to pass or spend time, to live or conduct one's life. Like βιόω, it emphasizes the manner or process of spending one's existence, though διάγω more specifically focuses on the passing of time and lifestyle.
Contrasting words 1 word
- ἀποθνήσκω apothnḗskō · G599 · to die, death, to face death
- The standard Greek verb for 'to die,' the direct lexical opposite of βιόω 'to live/spend existence.' These verbs represent the fundamental opposition between living and dying.
In the other Testament 1 word
- חָיָה châyâh · H2421 · to be alive, to become alive, to live
- The standard Hebrew verb for 'to live' or 'to be alive,' corresponding to the Greek βιόω in contexts expressing the act of living or spending one's life. Both verbs denote the basic action of being alive and conducting one's existence.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To live, daily life, life, existence41.18
- Used of conducting one's remaining earthly life, as of living the rest of one's time in the flesh no longer for human desires but for God's will in 1 Peter 4:2.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βίῳ: 1 aorist infinitive βιῶσαι; for which in Attic the 2 aorist infinitive βιωναι is…
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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