'Alive' in the Bible

Jehovah putteth to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

and he catcheth Agag king of Amalek alive, and all the people he hath devoted by the mouth of the sword;

and not only while I am alive dost thou do with me the kindness of Jehovah, and I die not,

and David hath smitten the land, and doth not keep alive man and woman, and hath taken sheep, and oxen, and asses, and camels, and garments, and turneth back, and cometh in unto Achish.

Neither man nor woman doth David keep alive, to bring in word to Gath, saying, 'Lest they declare it against us, saying, Thus hath David done, and thus is his custom all the days that he hath dwelt in the fields of the Philistines.'