Word Summary
bioō: to live
Original Word: βιόωTransliteration: bioō
Phonetic Spelling: (bee-o'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to live
Meaning: to live
Strong's Concordance
live.
From bios; to spend existence -- live.
see GREEK bios
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 980: βιόωβιόω,
βίῳ: 1 aorist infinitive
βιῶσαι; for which in Attic the 2 aorist infinitive
βιωναι is more common, cf.
Winers Grammar, 84 (80); (
Buttmann, 54 (48);
Veitch, or Liddell and Scott, under the word); (
βίος); (from
Homer down);
to spend life, to live:
τόν χρόνον, to pass the time,
1 Peter 4:2; (
Job 29:18;
ἡμέρας,
Xenophon, mem. 4, 8, 2). (Synonym: see
βίος, at the end.)