'Alive' in the Bible
Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.
Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?"
They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"
He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"
They said, "Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive." They bowed the head, and did homage.
God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
They told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." His heart fainted, for he didn't believe them.
Israel said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."
Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.