'Alive' in the Bible

"Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the cattle, and the donkeys, and the camels, and the clothing; and he returned, and came to Achish.

David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, "Lest they should tell of us, saying, 'So did David, and so has been his way all the while he has lived in the country of the Philistines.'"