Strong G979βίος
life
- Transliteration
- bios
- Pronunciation
- bee'-os
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
A primary word;
life that is (literally) the present state of existence; by implication the means of livelihood: - good life living.
life that is (literally) the present state of existence; by implication the means of livelihood: - good life living.
Detailed definition
βίος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX chiefly for יָמִים;]
1. period or course of life, life: Luk.8:14, 1Ti.2:2, 2Ti.2:4, 1Jn.2:16.
2. living, livelihood, means (in Pro.31:14 for לֶחֶם; see DCG, ii, 39a): Mrk.12:44, Luk.8:43 15:12, 30 21:4, 1Jn.3:17.†
SYN.: ζωή, is life intensive, "vita quâ, vivimus," the vital principle; βίος, life extensive, "vita quam vivimus," (1) the period of life, (2) the means by which it is sustained. Hence, in cl., ζ., being confined to the physical life common to men and animals, is the inferior word (cf. zoology, biography). In NT, ζωή is elevated into the ethical and spiritual sphere (cf. Tr., Syn., §xxvii). (AS)
[in LXX chiefly for יָמִים;]
1. period or course of life, life: Luk.8:14, 1Ti.2:2, 2Ti.2:4, 1Jn.2:16.
2. living, livelihood, means (in Pro.31:14 for לֶחֶם; see DCG, ii, 39a): Mrk.12:44, Luk.8:43 15:12, 30 21:4, 1Jn.3:17.†
SYN.: ζωή, is life intensive, "vita quâ, vivimus," the vital principle; βίος, life extensive, "vita quam vivimus," (1) the period of life, (2) the means by which it is sustained. Hence, in cl., ζ., being confined to the physical life common to men and animals, is the inferior word (cf. zoology, biography). In NT, ζωή is elevated into the ethical and spiritual sphere (cf. Tr., Syn., §xxvii). (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G979 appears in 11 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- life5
- live4
- of2
- good1
- living1
First verses
- Mark 12:44For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
- Luke 8:14And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
- Luke 8:43And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
- Luke 15:12And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
- Luke 15:30But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
- Luke 21:4For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.
- 1 Timothy 2:2For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
- 2 Timothy 2:4No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
- 1 Peter 4:3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
- 1 John 2:16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
- 1 John 3:17But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
βίος[ῐ], ὁ,
life, i. e. not animal life (ζωή), but mode of life [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (compare (εἰ χρόνον τις λέγοι ψυχῆς ἐν κινήσει μετα βατικῇ ἐξ ἄλλου εἰς ἄλλον βίον ζωὴν εἶναι 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 3.7.11))], manner of living (mostly therefore of men, see [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Ammonius Epigrammaticus p.32 V.)]; but also of animals, διεχώριζον ζῴων τε βίον δένδρων τε φύσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Epicrates Comicus 11.14, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.11.6, etc.; also ζῆν φυτοῦ βίον 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 736b13); ζώεις δ᾽ ἀγαθὸν βίον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.491; ἐμὸν βίον ἀμφιπολεύειν 18.254; αἰῶνα βίοιο 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 161; τὸν μακρὸν τείνειν βίον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 537 (Lyric poetry); ὁ καθ᾽ ἡμέραν β. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1364; βίον διαγαγεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 439; τελεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1114; διατελεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.45)]; διέρχεσθαι βίου τέλος uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 4(3).5; τελευτᾶν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.84; ὑπ᾽ ἄλλου τελευτῆσαι β. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 870e; ἐπειδὰν τοῦ ἀνθρωπίνου βίου τελευτήσω 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.7.17; τέρμα βίου περᾶν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1530; ὁδὸς βίου 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.5, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.21; διὰ βίου 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1272a37)]; proverbial, ὁ ἐπὶ Κρόνου βίος 'the Golden Age', [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ath.” 16.7; so Ταρτησσοῦ β. 4th c.AD: Himerius Sophista “Eclogae” 10.11; β. ζωῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epinomis” 982a (compare βιοτή); ζῆν θαλάττιον β. 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 100; ἀμέριμνον ζῆν β. 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 92.8; λαγὼ β. ζῆν δεδιὼς καὶ τρέμων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.263; σκληρὸς τῷ β. 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Γεωργός” 66)]: rarely in plural, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 116.6 and 11, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 855)]; τίνες καὶ πόσοι εἰσὶ β.; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 733d, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1095b15, “Pol.” 1256a20.)]
2 in Poets sometimes ={ζωή}, βίον ἐκπνέων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1517 (Lyric poetry); ἀποψύχειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1031; φείδεσθαι βίου [prev. author] “Ph.” 749; νοσφίζειν τινὰ βίου [prev. work] 1427, etc.)]
3 lifetime, ἐς τὸν ἅπαντα ἀνθρώπων β. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.109; τῶν ἐπὶ τοῦ σοῦ β. γεγονότων λόγων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 242a, compare “PMagd.” 18.7 (3rd c.BC), etc.)]
II livelihood, means of living (in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus βίοτος), βίος ἐπηετανός 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 31, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.10)]; τὸν βίον κτᾶσθαι, ποιεῖσθαι, ἔχειν ἀπό τινος, to make one's living off, to live by a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.106, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.5, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 6.11; ἀπεστέρηκας τὸν βίον τὰ τόξ᾽ ἑλών 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 931, compare 933, 1282; κτᾶσθαι πλοῦτον καὶ βίον τέκνοις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 450; πλείον᾽ ἐκμοχθεῖν β. [prev. work] 451)]; β. πολύς[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 861; ὀλίγος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 751; βίον κεκτημένος 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 99.4)]; ὁ ῐδιος β. private property, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“AJA” 17.29 (1st c.BC),compare “SIG” 762.40, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de vita Pythagorica” 30.170)]; β. Δημήτριος, = corn, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 44.)]
III the world we live in, 'the world', οἱ ἀπὸ τοῦ β., opposed to the philosophers, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 11.49; simply ὁ βίος [prev. author] “P.” 1.211)]; ὁ β. ὁ κοινός[Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. work] 237; μυθικὰς ὑποθέσεις ὧν μεστὸς ὁ β. ἐστί 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.226)]; ἐκκαθαίρειν τὸν β., of Hercules, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DDeor.” 13.1; τὸν βίον μιμούμενοι, of comic poets, Scholia Heph. p.115C.)]; also, 'the public', ἵνα ὁ β. εἰδῇ τίνα δεῖ μετακαλεῖσθαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.4.)]
IV settled life, almost, = abode, ἐν τῇ Θρᾳκίᾳ νήσῳ βίους ἱδρύσαντο [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 1.68, compare 72.)]
V a life, biography, as those of [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus, “Thes.” 1, compare 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.180.)]
VI caste, διεῖλε τὸ πλῆθος εἰς τέτταρας β. [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.7.1.)]
VII wine made from partly dried unripe grapes, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 14.77.)]
VIII Astrology texts, the second region, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Paulus Alexandrinus Astrologus “L.” 2.)] (Cf. Sanskrit jīv´s 'alive', j[imacracute]vati 'live', Latin uīvus, etc.)
life, i. e. not animal life (ζωή), but mode of life [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (compare (εἰ χρόνον τις λέγοι ψυχῆς ἐν κινήσει μετα βατικῇ ἐξ ἄλλου εἰς ἄλλον βίον ζωὴν εἶναι 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 3.7.11))], manner of living (mostly therefore of men, see [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Ammonius Epigrammaticus p.32 V.)]; but also of animals, διεχώριζον ζῴων τε βίον δένδρων τε φύσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Epicrates Comicus 11.14, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.11.6, etc.; also ζῆν φυτοῦ βίον 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 736b13); ζώεις δ᾽ ἀγαθὸν βίον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.491; ἐμὸν βίον ἀμφιπολεύειν 18.254; αἰῶνα βίοιο 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 161; τὸν μακρὸν τείνειν βίον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 537 (Lyric poetry); ὁ καθ᾽ ἡμέραν β. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1364; βίον διαγαγεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 439; τελεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1114; διατελεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.45)]; διέρχεσθαι βίου τέλος uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 4(3).5; τελευτᾶν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.84; ὑπ᾽ ἄλλου τελευτῆσαι β. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 870e; ἐπειδὰν τοῦ ἀνθρωπίνου βίου τελευτήσω 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.7.17; τέρμα βίου περᾶν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1530; ὁδὸς βίου 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.5, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.21; διὰ βίου 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1272a37)]; proverbial, ὁ ἐπὶ Κρόνου βίος 'the Golden Age', [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ath.” 16.7; so Ταρτησσοῦ β. 4th c.AD: Himerius Sophista “Eclogae” 10.11; β. ζωῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epinomis” 982a (compare βιοτή); ζῆν θαλάττιον β. 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 100; ἀμέριμνον ζῆν β. 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 92.8; λαγὼ β. ζῆν δεδιὼς καὶ τρέμων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.263; σκληρὸς τῷ β. 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Γεωργός” 66)]: rarely in plural, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 116.6 and 11, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 855)]; τίνες καὶ πόσοι εἰσὶ β.; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 733d, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1095b15, “Pol.” 1256a20.)]
2 in Poets sometimes ={ζωή}, βίον ἐκπνέων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1517 (Lyric poetry); ἀποψύχειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1031; φείδεσθαι βίου [prev. author] “Ph.” 749; νοσφίζειν τινὰ βίου [prev. work] 1427, etc.)]
3 lifetime, ἐς τὸν ἅπαντα ἀνθρώπων β. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.109; τῶν ἐπὶ τοῦ σοῦ β. γεγονότων λόγων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 242a, compare “PMagd.” 18.7 (3rd c.BC), etc.)]
II livelihood, means of living (in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus βίοτος), βίος ἐπηετανός 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 31, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.10)]; τὸν βίον κτᾶσθαι, ποιεῖσθαι, ἔχειν ἀπό τινος, to make one's living off, to live by a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.106, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.5, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 6.11; ἀπεστέρηκας τὸν βίον τὰ τόξ᾽ ἑλών 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 931, compare 933, 1282; κτᾶσθαι πλοῦτον καὶ βίον τέκνοις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 450; πλείον᾽ ἐκμοχθεῖν β. [prev. work] 451)]; β. πολύς[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 861; ὀλίγος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 751; βίον κεκτημένος 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 99.4)]; ὁ ῐδιος β. private property, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“AJA” 17.29 (1st c.BC),compare “SIG” 762.40, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de vita Pythagorica” 30.170)]; β. Δημήτριος, = corn, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 44.)]
III the world we live in, 'the world', οἱ ἀπὸ τοῦ β., opposed to the philosophers, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 11.49; simply ὁ βίος [prev. author] “P.” 1.211)]; ὁ β. ὁ κοινός[Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. work] 237; μυθικὰς ὑποθέσεις ὧν μεστὸς ὁ β. ἐστί 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.226)]; ἐκκαθαίρειν τὸν β., of Hercules, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DDeor.” 13.1; τὸν βίον μιμούμενοι, of comic poets, Scholia Heph. p.115C.)]; also, 'the public', ἵνα ὁ β. εἰδῇ τίνα δεῖ μετακαλεῖσθαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.4.)]
IV settled life, almost, = abode, ἐν τῇ Θρᾳκίᾳ νήσῳ βίους ἱδρύσαντο [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 1.68, compare 72.)]
V a life, biography, as those of [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus, “Thes.” 1, compare 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.180.)]
VI caste, διεῖλε τὸ πλῆθος εἰς τέτταρας β. [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.7.1.)]
VII wine made from partly dried unripe grapes, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 14.77.)]
VIII Astrology texts, the second region, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Paulus Alexandrinus Astrologus “L.” 2.)] (Cf. Sanskrit jīv´s 'alive', j[imacracute]vati 'live', Latin uīvus, etc.)