'Alive' in the Bible

and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death."

But Rahab the prostitute, her father's household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.

"Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.