22 occurrences

'Life' in the Bible

You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; [your] lovers despise you, they seek your life.

Verse ConceptsCrimsonAdornment, Of WomenGoldCosmeticsRed ClothesUseless LabourAttempting To KillWearing Jewelleryloversmakeup

Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them, says Yahweh of Armies.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentDespair, Description OfHope, Results Of Its AbsenceDesire For DeathSurvivors Of The NationsSurvivors ThreatenedFamily LoveLove And FamilyFamily Death

Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, You shall not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, that you not die by our hand;

Verse ConceptsKilling ProphetsProphecy MuzzledAttempting To Kill Specific People

I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, Need For God'sPlansAnimals Eating PeopleEating CorpsesKilling Israelites

I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them.

Verse ConceptsBad ChildrenCannibalismAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

Afterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life: and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofdefeatMercy, HumanNot SparingGod Will Cause DefeatPeople Without Mercy

To this people you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

Verse ConceptsHell, As Incentive To ActionSpiritually DeadLife And DeathLife After Death

He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out, and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey.

Verse ConceptsKeeping Oneself AliveDeath Of Other GroupsSurrender

and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleTo Be Given Into One's Hands

I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth.

Verse ConceptsUnburied BodiesAnimals Eating PeopleEating CorpsesGod Will Cause Defeat

Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, who have gone away from you.

Verse ConceptsGod Will Cause Defeat

Thus says Yahweh, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey, and he shall live.

Verse ConceptsKeeping Oneself AliveFamine Killing

So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of LifeOaths, HumanSecrecyGod Giving LifeKilling Prophets

For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but your life shall be for a prey to you; because you have put your trust in me, says Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsThe Effects Of FaithTrusting God And Not Worrying

and said to him, Do you know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn't believe them.

Verse ConceptsNot Believing PeopleAttempting To Kill Specific People

Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?

Verse ConceptsJews, ThePrivacySurvivors DestroyedInformation In Secret

Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.

Do you seek great things for yourself? Don't seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh; but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.

Verse ConceptsAmbition, negative aspects ofSearchingSelfishnessSeeking For Abstract ThingsGreat ThingsGod Will Bring HarmBeing Yourself

I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life; and I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger, says Yahweh; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them;

Verse Conceptsend

Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.

Verse ConceptsReturn From BabylonRetributionWagesEvil AssociationsGod Executes VengeanceThe judgment of babylonRevenge

and changed his prison garments. [Jehoiachin] ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:

Verse ConceptsLifelongDistinctive Clothing

and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

Verse ConceptsLifelongOnce A DayNutrition

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
βιωτικός 
Biotikos 
Usage: 2

גּאוּת 
Ge'uwth 
Usage: 8

גּוה 
Gevah 
pride , lifting up
Usage: 3

דּלה 
Dalah 
draw , enough , lifted me
Usage: 5

חי 
Chay 
Usage: 502

חי 
Chay (Aramaic) 
Usage: 7

חיה 
Chayah 
Usage: 264

חיי 
Chayay 
Usage: 15

מחיה 
Michyah 
Usage: 8

מעל 
Mo`al 
lifting up
Usage: 1

מרא 
Mara' 
Usage: 1

משׂאת 
Mas'eth 
Usage: 16

נוּס 
Nuwc 
Usage: 160

נוּף 
Nuwph 
Usage: 37

נטל 
N@tal (Aramaic) 
lifted up
Usage: 2

נסס 
Nacac 
lifted up as an ensign
Usage: 1

נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

נתק 
Nathaq 
Usage: 27

עפל 
`aphal 
Usage: 2

עצם 
`etsem 
Usage: 126

צהל 
Tsahal 
Usage: 9

ראם 
Ra'am 
lifted up
Usage: 1

רוּם 
Ruwm (Aramaic) 
lift up , extol , set up
Usage: 4

רמם 
Ramam 
exalted , lifted up , get up , mount up
Usage: 5

רממת 
Romemuth 
lifting up
Usage: 1

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ἀγωγή 
Agoge 
Usage: 1

αἴρω 
Airo 
take up , take away , take , away with , lift up , bear ,
Usage: 52

ἀνακύπτω 
Anakupto 
lift up self , look up
Usage: 3

ἀνάστασις 
Anastasis 
Usage: 34

ἀνορθόω 
Anorthoo 
make straight , set up , lift up
Usage: 3

ἄψυχος 
Apsuchos 
Usage: 1

βίος 
Bios 
Usage: 6

Βίωσις 
Biosis 
Usage: 0

διάγω 
Diago 
lead a life 99 , living
Usage: 2

ἐπαίρω 
Epairo 
lift up , exalt self , take up , hoisted up
Usage: 14

ζωή 
Zoe 
Usage: 88

ζωοποιέω 
Zoopoieo 
Usage: 9

τυφόω 
Tuphoo 
be proud , be lifted up with pride , highminded
Usage: 3

ὑψόω 
Hupsoo 
exalt , lift up
Usage: 8

ψυχή 
Psuche 
soul , life , mind , heart , heartily Trans , not tr
Usage: 62