◄ 979. bios ►
Strong's Lexicon bios: Life, livelihood, manner of life Original Word: βίος Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: bios Pronunciation: bee'-os Phonetic Spelling: (bee'-os) Definition: Life, livelihood, manner of life Meaning: (a) life, (b) manner of life; livelihood. HELPS Word-studies 979 bíos – properly, God's gift of physical life, animating all creation "to live and move and have its being" (cf. Ac 17:28); (figuratively) the way a person invests (or spends) the gift of physical life. 979 (bios) is "the period or duration of earthly life . . . in a secondary sense, the means by which life is sustained; and thirdly, the manner in which that life is spent" (R. Trench). [979 (bíos) is the root of the English term "biography," i.e. the record (account) of how we invested (or spent!) our physical lives.] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin a prim. word Definition life, living NASB Translation everyday life (1), goods (1), life (3), live (2), wealth (2). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 979: βίος βίος, βίου, 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 ().) [SYNONYMS: βίος, ζωή: ζωή existence (having death as its antithesis); βίος 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 Lightfoot, Ignatius ad Rom. 7 [ET].] Strong's Exhaustive Concordance life, living. A primary word; life, i.e. (literally) the present state of existence; by implication, the means of livelihood -- good, life, living. Forms and Transliterations βιον βίον βίος βιότητος βιου βίου βίω πλούτον bion bíon biou bíou Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's Concordance Mark 12:44 N-AMS GRK: ὅλον τὸν βίον αὐτῆς NAS: she owned, all she had to live on. KJV: [even] all her living. INT: all the livelihood of her Luke 8:14 N-GMS GRK: ἡδονῶν τοῦ βίου πορευόμενοι συμπνίγονται NAS: and pleasures of [this] life, and bring KJV: pleasures of [this] life, and INT: pleasures of life moving along are choked Luke 8:43 Noun-AMS GRK: ὅλον τὸν βίον οὐκ ἴσχυσεν INT: all her living neither could Luke 15:12 N-AMS GRK: αὐτοῖς τὸν βίον NAS: he divided his wealth between KJV: he divided unto them [his] living. INT: between them the property Luke 15:30 N-AMS GRK: σου τὸν βίον μετὰ πορνῶν NAS: who has devoured your wealth with prostitutes, KJV: hath devoured thy living with harlots, INT: your living with prostitutes Luke 21:4 N-AMS GRK: πάντα τὸν βίον ὃν εἶχεν NAS: in all that she had to live on. KJV: in all the living that INT: all the livelihood which she had 1 Timothy 2:2 N-AMS GRK: καὶ ἡσύχιον βίον διάγωμεν ἐν NAS: and quiet life in all KJV: and peaceable life in all INT: and quiet life we might lead in 2 Timothy 2:4 N-GMS GRK: ταῖς τοῦ βίου πραγματείαις ἵνα NAS: himself in the affairs of everyday life, so KJV: with the affairs of [this] life; that INT: with the of this life affairs that 1 John 2:16 N-GMS GRK: ἀλαζονεία τοῦ βίου οὐκ ἔστιν NAS: and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, KJV: and the pride of life, is not INT: vaunting of the of life not is 1 John 3:17 N-AMS GRK: ἔχῃ τὸν βίον τοῦ κόσμου NAS: the world's goods, and sees KJV: hath this world's good, and seeth INT: might have the goods of the world Strong's Greek 979 10 Occurrences βίον — 7 Occ. βίου — 3 Occ.