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Lexicon :: Strong's G979 - bios

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βίος
Transliteration
bios (Key)
Pronunciation
bee'-os
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A primary word
mGNT
10x in 2 unique form(s) TR
11x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
23x in 4 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:832,290

Trench's Synonyms: xxvii. ζωή, βίος.

Strong’s Definitions

βίος bíos, bee'-os; a primary word; life, i.e. (literally) the present state of existence; by implication, the means of livelihood:—good, life, living.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's G979 in the following manner: life (5x), living (5x), good (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's G979 in the following manner: life (5x), living (5x), good (1x).

  1. life

    1. life extensively

      1. the period or course of life

    2. that by which life is sustained, resources, wealth, goods

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
βίος bíos, bee'-os; a primary word; life, i.e. (literally) the present state of existence; by implication, the means of livelihood:—good, life, living.
STRONGS G979:
βίος, -ου, ὁ, [from Homer down];
a. life extensively, i. e. the period or course of life [see below and Trench, § xxvii.]: Luke 8:14; 1 Timothy 2:2; 2 Timothy 2:4; 1 John 2:16; 1 Peter 4:3 [Rec.].
b. (as often in Greek writings from Hesiod, Works, 230, 575; Herodotus, Xenophon) that by which life is sustained, resources, wealth [A. V. living]: Mark 12:44; Luke 8:43 [WH omits; Tr marginal reading brackets the clause]; Luke 15:12, 30; Luke 21:4; 1 John 3:17 [goods]. (For לֶחֶם in Proverbs 31:14 (Prov. 29:32).)
[Synonyms: βίος, ζωή: ζ. existence (having death as its antithesis); β. the period, means, manner, of existence. Hence the former is more naturally used of animals, the latter of men; cf. zoology, biography. N. T. usage exalts ζωή, and so tends to debase βίος. But see Bp. Lightfoot Ign. ad Romans 7.]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Proverbs
31:14
Mark
12:44
Luke
8:14; 8:43; 15:12; 15:30; 21:4
1 Timothy
2:2
2 Timothy
2:4
1 Peter
4:3
1 John
2:16; 3:17

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G979 matches the Greek βίος (bios),
which occurs 11 times in 11 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 12:44

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:44 - for all, out of their abundance, put in, but she, out of her want, all that she had put in -- all her living.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:14 - 'And that which fell to the thorns: These are they who have heard, and going forth, through anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, are choked, and bear not to completion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:43 - and a woman, having an issue of blood for twelve years, who, having spent on physicians all her living, was not able to be healed by any,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:12 - and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to me, and he divided to them the living.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:30 - but when thy son -- this one who did devour thy living with harlots -- came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:4 - for all these out of their superabundance did cast into the gifts to God, but this one out of her want, all the living that she had, did cast in.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 2:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 2:2 - for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 2:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 2:4 - no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:3 - for sufficient to us is the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Jo 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:16 - because all that is in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Jo 3:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 3:17 - and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him?
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