229 occurrences

'Lives' in the Bible

And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfSweet OdoursCurses, DivineCovenant, God's with Noahevil, origins ofEarth, Promises AboutBeing Born In SinAromasHeart, DivineMind, The HumanSin, Universality OfSmellsAltarsBeing Evil From YouthGod KillingThoughts Of The WickedSoliloquyGod CursingGod Killing All PeopleRefreshing GodThe Hearts Incination To Evil

When they had brought them outside, they said, "Run for your lives! Don't look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!"

Verse ConceptsEscapingFuturedoubt, results ofExamples Of EscapingHesitationLooking BackwardEscaping To MountainsOutside The CityLooking Back

You will be tested in this way: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not depart from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest Child

One of you must go and get your brother, while the rest of you remain in prison. In this way your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If not, then, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!"

Verse ConceptsPrisonersSpyingPeople Sending People

God sent me ahead of you to preserve you on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Verse ConceptsRemnantRescueEscaping EvilSurvivors Of IsraelIndividuals Saving OthersIdentityTaking Care Of The Earthdeliverance

They replied, "You have saved our lives! You are showing us favor, and we will be Pharaoh's slaves."

Verse ConceptsSubjectionKept Alive By MenGroups Of SlavesIndividuals Saving Others

They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.

Verse ConceptsBricksOppression, Examples OfTroubling Groups Of PeopleBitternessSuccess And Hard Work

"When a foreigner lives with you and wants to observe the Passover to the Lord, all his males must be circumcised, and then he may approach and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the land -- but no uncircumcised person may eat of it.

Verse ConceptsForeignersExclusivenessUncircumcisionForeigners Permitted At The FeastsCircumcisionStrangers in israelAliens

The same law will apply to the person who is native-born and to the foreigner who lives among you."

Verse ConceptsForeignersForeigners Included In The LawStrangers in israelAliens

"This is what the Lord has commanded: 'Each person is to gather from it what he can eat, an omer per person according to the number of your people; each one will pick it up for whoever lives in his tent.'"

Verse ConceptsTentsGathering FoodAccording To People

The rich are not to increase it, and the poor are not to pay less than the half shekel when giving the offering of the Lord, to make atonement for your lives.

Verse ConceptsEquality In PaymentCoinageBeing PoorValuation Of PeopleTax To Be PaidWealthy People

You are to receive the atonement money from the Israelites and give it for the service of the tent of meeting. It will be a memorial for the Israelites before the Lord, to make atonement for your lives."

Verse ConceptsMemorialReminders

Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: No person among you is to eat blood, and no resident foreigner who lives among you is to eat blood.

Verse ConceptsForbidden Food

If a resident foreigner lives among you and wants to keep the Passover to the Lord, he must do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its custom. You must have the same statute for the resident foreigner and for the one who was born in the land.'"

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In OtOrdinancesPassoverAliens, Believers DutyStrangersForeigners Permitted At The FeastsForeigners Included In The Law

One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.'"

Verse ConceptsForeignersForeigners Included In The Law

And the whole community of the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them will be forgiven, since all the people were involved in the unintentional offense.

Verse ConceptsForeigners Included In The Law

You must have one law for the person who sins unintentionally, both for the native-born among the Israelites and for the resident foreigner who lives among them.

Verse ConceptsClosing UpForeigners Included In The LawUnintentionalStrangers in israel

As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, they must be made into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the Lord and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites."

Verse ConceptsSetting Up The Bronze AltarThings As Signs

The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer must wash his clothes and be ceremonially unclean until evening. This will be a permanent ordinance both for the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them.

Verse ConceptsAshesRitual WashingStrangersClean ClothesPeople Being PollutedUnclean Until EveningForeigners Included In The Law

For from the top of the rocks I see them; from the hills I watch them. Indeed, a nation that lives alone, and it will not be reckoned among the nations.

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessSeparation From Evil PeopleA Solitary People

but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the foreigner who lives with you, so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have rest.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyWork, And RestStrangersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekForeigners Included In The LawDay 7No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Men And Women

and that you may so revere the Lord your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments that I am giving you -- you, your children, and your grandchildren -- all your lives, to prolong your days.

Verse ConceptsFutureFear Of The LordHow To Live Longstatues

It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out.

Verse ConceptsLearningStudentsKings, How They Should ActReading The ScripturesFear God!Keep The Commandments!Reading The Bible

They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman's father, for the man who made the accusation ruined the reputation of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.

Verse ConceptsCoinageAvoid DivorceFine As Penalty

The man who has raped her must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife because he has violated her; he may never divorce her as long as he lives.

Verse ConceptsAvoid DivorceMarriage Between Man And WomanSex Before Marriagemarraigepremaritalvirginity

As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahNot Knowing PeopleThose OppressedAbuseoppression

Israel lives in safety, the fountain of Jacob is quite secure, in a land of grain and new wine; indeed, its heavens rain down dew.

Verse ConceptsdrinkingGrainWine

that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and rescue us from death."

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenDeath Of A Family MemberDeath Of A MotherDeath Of A FatherFamily DeathProtecting Your Family

Yet Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, her father's family, and all who belonged to her. She lives in Israel to this very day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy on Jericho.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsSpyingPeople Hiding PeopleWhere People Live To This Daywhores

They said to Joshua, "It was carefully reported to your subjects how the Lord your God commanded Moses his servant to assign you the whole land and to destroy all who live in the land from before you. Because of you we were terrified we would lose our lives, so we did this thing.

Verse ConceptsAnxiety, Examples Of

But if your own land is impure, cross over to the Lord's own land, where the Lord himself lives, and settle down among us. But don't rebel against the Lord or us by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the Lord our God.

Verse ConceptsFellowship, In The GospelRebellion Against God, Nature OfThe Altar Of The LordBuilding AltarsGod Living In The TabernacleUnclean Things

The men of Zebulun were not concerned about their lives; Naphtali charged on to the battlefields.

Verse ConceptsCourage, Examples OfLife DespisedRisking

Do this: exterminate every male, as well as every woman who has had sexual relations with a male. But spare the lives of any virgins." So they did as instructed.

Remain here tonight. Then in the morning, if he agrees to marry you, fine, let him do so. But if he does not want to do so, I promise, as surely as the Lord lives, to marry you. Sleep here until morning."

Verse ConceptsSexual Chastity Examples Of

For as surely as the Lord, the deliverer of Israel, lives, even if it turns out to be my own son Jonathan, he will certainly die!" But no one from the army said anything.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Being SilentKilling Will HappenOthers Not Answering

But the army said to Saul, "Should Jonathan, who won this great victory in Israel, die? May it never be! As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of his head will fall to the ground! For it is with the help of God that he has acted today." So the army rescued Jonathan from death.

Verse ConceptsHairsHeadsPublic OpinionFar Be It!Hairs ProtectedIndividuals Saving Others

Saul accepted Jonathan's advice and took an oath, "As surely as the Lord lives, he will not be put to death."

Taking an oath, David again said, "Your father is very much aware of the fact that I have found favor with you, and he has thought, 'Don't let Jonathan know about this, or he will be upset.' But as surely as the Lord lives and you live, there is about one step between me and death!"

Verse ConceptsLife, Brevity OfThe Frailty Of ManThose Who Did Not TellDeath Of A Father

When I send a boy after them, I will say, "Go and find the arrows." If I say to the boy, 'Look, the arrows are on this side of you; get them,' then come back. For as surely as the Lord lives, you will be safe and there will no problem.

Verse ConceptsSeeking For Concrete Things

My lord should not pay attention to this wicked man Nabal. He simply lives up to his name! His name means 'fool,' and he is indeed foolish! But I, your servant, did not see the servants my lord sent.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfFoolish PeoplePeople With Apt Names

"Now, my lord, as surely as the Lord lives and as surely as you live, it is the Lord who has kept you from shedding blood and taking matters into your own hands. Now may your enemies and those who seek to harm my lord be like Nabal.

Verse ConceptsSheddingRestraints From KillingNot Avenging

When someone sets out to chase you and to take your life, the life of my lord will be wrapped securely in the bag of the living by the Lord your God. But he will sling away the lives of your enemies from the sling's pocket!

Verse ConceptsSlingsThrowing Stones

Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives -- he who has prevented me from harming you -- if you had not come so quickly to meet me, by morning's light not even one male belonging to Nabal would have remained alive!"

Verse ConceptsUrinatingDeath Of All Males

David went on to say, "As the Lord lives, the Lord himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.

Verse ConceptsHow Death Is InevitableGod KillingGod Killing Individualsnatural Death

This failure on your part isn't good! As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord's chosen one, are as good as dead! Now look where the king's spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!"

Verse ConceptsDrinking WaterThe Lord's Anointed

But Saul swore an oath to her by the Lord, "As surely as the Lord lives, you will not incur guilt in this matter!"

So Achish summoned David and said to him, "As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you serving with me in the army. I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion of the leaders, you are not reliable.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfGoing Out And Coming In

Saul and Jonathan were greatly loved during their lives, and not even in their deaths were they separated. They were swifter than eagles, stronger than lions.

Verse ConceptsFriendshipEaglesCompanionshipFast RunnersStrong Individuals

Joab replied, "As surely as God lives, if you had not said this, it would have been morning before the people would have abandoned pursuit of their brothers!"

David replied to Recab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, "As surely as the Lord lives, who has delivered my life from all adversity,

Then David became very angry at this man. He said to Nathan, "As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

Verse ConceptsAnger, HumanDeath As PunishmentAngry People

She replied, "In that case, let the king invoke the name of the Lord your God so that the avenger of blood may not kill! Then they will not destroy my son!" He replied, "As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of your son's head will fall to the ground."

Verse ConceptsAvenger of bloodHairsHairs ProtectedMan Avenging

But Ittai replied to the king, "As surely as the Lord lives and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king is, whether dead or alive, there I will be as well!"

Verse ConceptsLoyaltyServants, GoodFriendship, Examples OfCompanionshipLife And Death

So Joab visited the king at his home. He said, "Today you have embarrassed all your servants who have saved your life this day, as well as the lives of your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your concubines.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesIndividuals Saving Others

Then David went to his palace in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

Verse ConceptsHousesWidowsAbsence Of SexTen PeopleIndividuals going homeActual Widows

and said, "O Lord, I will not do this! It is equivalent to the blood of the men who risked their lives by going." So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors.

Verse ConceptsPeople Consuming BloodRiskingrisk

The king swore an oath: "As certainly as the Lord lives (he who has rescued me from every danger),

Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David's throne, and established a dynasty for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!"

Verse ConceptsSolomon, Character Of

Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he lives in thick darkness.

Verse ConceptsGod's Dwelling

Jeroboam told his wife, "Disguise yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam's wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there.

Verse ConceptsdisguisesChanging Yourself

Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command."

Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfBaal Worship, HistoryElijah, Prophecies OfElijah, Life Ofdrought, physicaldewLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityPrayerfulnessRainWeather, As God's JudgmentMiracles Of ElijahCrowsImmigrants

"Get up, go to Zarephath in Sidonian territory, and live there. I have already told a widow who lives there to provide for you."

Verse Conceptsdrought, physicalMission, Of IsraelWork, Divine And HumanDivine DirectionWidows

She said, "As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I'm going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation."

Verse ConceptsFlourLonelinessOlive OilSmall Things God UsesBarrelsResigned To DeathFirewoodDyingcooking

As certainly as the Lord your God lives, my master has sent to every nation and kingdom in an effort to find you. When they say, 'He's not here,' he makes them swear an oath that they could not find you.

Verse ConceptsNowhere To Be FoundThose Looking For People

But Elijah said, "As certainly as the Lord who rules over all lives (whom I serve), I will make an appearance before him today."

Verse ConceptsBoldness Examples OfTodayPeople Made Known

His advisers said to him, "Look, we have heard that the kings of the Israelite dynasty are kind. Allow us to put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and surrender to the king of Israel. Maybe he will spare our lives."

Verse ConceptsRopesSackcloth And AshesPeople Showing Mercyhumor

"Get up, go down and meet King Ahab of Israel who lives in Samaria. He is at the vineyard of Naboth; he has gone down there to take possession of it.

Verse ConceptsDivine DirectionList Of Kings Of IsraelTaking Possessions

But Micaiah said, "As certainly as the Lord lives, I will say what the Lord tells me to say."

Verse ConceptsForeknowledgeCourage, Examples OfSpeaking The Word God Gives

The king sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. He begged for mercy, "Prophet, please have respect for my life and for the lives of these fifty servants of yours.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsKneelingBeggingFiftiesKept Alive By MenThird PersonMan Of God

Elijah told Elisha, "Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel." But Elisha said, "As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel.

Verse ConceptsGood FriendsBest friendIntimacyFriendship, Examples OfCompanionshipMotionlessnessStaying Put

Elijah said to him, "Elisha, stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho." But he replied, "As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So they went to Jericho.

Verse ConceptsCompanionship

Elijah said to him, "Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan." But he replied, "As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So they traveled on together.

Verse ConceptsCompanionshipGoing TogetherMotionlessnessStaying Put

Elisha said, "As certainly as the Lord who rules over all lives (whom I serve), if I did not respect King Jehoshaphat of Judah, I would not pay attention to you or acknowledge you.

Verse ConceptsRespect, For Human BeingsCourage, Examples Of

The mother of the child said, "As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So Elisha got up and followed her back.

Verse ConceptsBeing A MotherCompanionshipMothers Love For Her Children

But Elisha replied, "As certainly as the Lord lives (whom I serve), I will take nothing from you." Naaman insisted that he take it, but he refused.

Verse ConceptsFraudNot GivingNot Receiving

Gehazi, the prophet Elisha's servant, thought, "Look, my master did not accept what this Syrian Naaman offered him. As certainly as the Lord lives, I will run after him and accept something from him."

Verse ConceptsLove, Abuse OfIndividuals RunningExemptGreedservanthood

One of his advisers said, "No, my master, O king. The prophet Elisha who lives in Israel keeps telling the king of Israel the things you say in your bedroom."

Verse ConceptsBedroomsNamed Prophets Of The LordPrivate Roomssecretssyriatraitors

So they got up and fled at dusk, leaving behind their tents, horses, and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.

Verse ConceptsPeoples Who FledLoss Of Donkeys

So now, bring to me all the prophets of Baal, as well as all his servants and priests. None of them must be absent, for I am offering a great sacrifice to Baal. Any of them who fail to appear will lose their lives." But Jehu was tricking them so he could destroy the servants of Baal.

Verse ConceptsFollowers Of BaalProphets Of Other Gods

They went inside to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside. He had told them, "If any of the men inside get away, you will pay with your lives!"

Verse ConceptsEquality Of PunishmentThe Number EightyEighties

and said, "God forbid that I should do this! Should I drink the blood of these men who risked their lives?" Because they risked their lives to bring it to him, he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors.

Verse ConceptsCrude LanguagePeople Consuming Bloodrisk

Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he lives in thick darkness.

But Micaiah said, "As certainly as the Lord lives, I will say what my God tells me to say!"

He prayed: "O Lord God of our ancestors, you are the God who lives in heaven and rules over all the kingdoms of the nations. You possess strength and power; no one can stand against you.

Verse ConceptsChallengesGod, Majesty OfGod, Sovereignty OfGovernmentKingsKingdomsAuthority, Belonging To GodDads

he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Houses

"As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter --

Verse ConceptsTasteIs God Unjust?Bitterness

It lives on a rock and spends the night there, on a rocky crag and a fortress.

Verse Conceptssoaring

Whoever lives a blameless life, does what is right, and speaks honestly.

Verse ConceptsWalkingCharacter Of SaintsUprightnessSpeaking TruthTelling The Truth

He does not charge interest when he lends his money. He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. The one who lives like this will never be upended.

Verse ConceptsCreditAcceptance Of BribesInterestLendingMoney, Stewardship OfImmovable SaintsNot MovedAvoiding BribesBriberyMoney Blessingslent

All of the thriving people of the earth will join the celebration and worship; all those who are descending into the grave will bow before him, including those who cannot preserve their lives.

Verse ConceptsBanquets, Events CelebratedKneelingMortalityGod Opposes The Prouddust

From the place where he lives he looks carefully at all the earth's inhabitants.

Verse ConceptsGod, The CreatorGod Seeing All People

by saving their lives from death and sustaining them during times of famine.

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By GodNot DyingHelp In ShortageDeath PreventedThe Soulsoul

You ascend on high, you have taken many captives. You receive tribute from men, including even sinful rebels. Indeed the Lord God lives there!

Verse ConceptsGiftsGiving To GodChrist, The Head Of The ChurchGift Of The Holy SpiritCaptivity, MetaphoricallyMessianic PropheciesSubject To Christrebellion

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
εἰρηνεύω 
Eireneuo 
Usage: 3

ζάω 
Zao 
live , be alive , alive , quick , lively , not tr , , vr live
Usage: 115

ארך 
'arak 
Usage: 34

חי 
Chay 
Usage: 502

חי 
Chay (Aramaic) 
Usage: 7

חיה חיא 
Chaya' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 6

חיה 
Chayah 
Usage: 264

חיה 
Chayeh 
Usage: 1

חיּוּת 
Chayuwth 
Usage: 1

חיי 
Chayay 
Usage: 15

חצה 
Chatsah 
Usage: 15

יקוּם 
Y@quwm 
Usage: 3

כּבד 
Kabed 
Usage: 14

רצפּה 
Ritspah 
Usage: 8

שׁנה שׁנה 
Shaneh (in pl. only), 
year , not translated , yearly , yearly + , year , live , old ,
Usage: 811

ἀναζάω 
Anazao 
Usage: 3

ἀναστρέφω 
Anastrepho 
Usage: 11

ἀσεβέω 
Asebeo 
Usage: 2

βίος 
Bios 
Usage: 6

βιόω 
Bioo 
Usage: 1

διάγω 
Diago 
lead a life 99 , living
Usage: 2

ἐσθίω 
Esthio 
Usage: 52

ζωογονέω 
Zoogoneo 
Usage: 1

μακροχρόνιος 
Makrochronios 
Usage: 1

πολιτεύομαι 
Politeuomai 
Usage: 2

σπαταλάω 
Spatalao 
live in pleasure , be wanton
Usage: 2

στρηνιάω 
Streniao 
Usage: 2

συζάω 
Suzao 
live with
Usage: 3

τρυφάω 
Truphao 
Usage: 1

ὑπάρχω 
Huparcho 
be , have , live , after , not tr
Usage: 41

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