'Alive' in the Bible

All the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship;All those who go down to the dust (the dead) will bow before Him,Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.

O Lord, You have brought my life up from Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead);You have kept me alive, so that I would not go down to the pit (grave).

To rescue their lives from deathAnd keep them alive in famine.

The Lord will protect him and keep him alive;And he will be called blessed in the land;You do not hand him over to the desire of his enemies.

Let death come deceitfully upon them;Let them go down alive to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),For evil [of every kind] is in their dwelling and in their hearts, in their midst.

And even when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not abandon me,Until I declare Your [mighty] strength to this generation,Your power to all who are to come.

Then they would have [quickly] swallowed us alive,When their wrath was kindled against us;