KJV dictionary & concordance

life

Meaning of “life”

The state of living; the period or manner of one's existence.

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450 occurrences409 verses49 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 1:20

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Deuteronomy 30:20

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That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 30:20 · retained source text

That thou maiest loue the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voyce, and that thou mayest cleaue vnto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy dayes, that thou mayest dwell in the land, which the LORD sware vnto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Iacob, to giue them.

Deuteronomy 32:47

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For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 32:47 · retained source text

For it is not a vaine thing for you: because it is your life, and through this thing yee shall prolong your dayes, in the land whither yee goe ouer Iordan to possesse it.

Joshua 1:5

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There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

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1611 witness · Joshua 1:5 · retained source text

There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the dayes of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not faile thee, nor forsake thee.

1611 marginal noteHeb. 13.6.

Joshua 2:14

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And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the Lord hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.

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1611 witness · Joshua 2:14 · retained source text

And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if yee vtter not this our businesse. And it shall bee when the LORD hath giuen vs the land, that wee will deale kindely and truely with thee.

1611 marginal noteHebr. in stead of you to die.

Joshua 4:14

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¶ On that day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

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1611 witness · Joshua 4:14 · retained source text

¶ On that day the LORD magnified Ioshua in the sight of all Israel, and they feared him, as they feared Moses all the dayes of his life.

Judges 9:17

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(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

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1611 witness · Judges 9:17 · retained source text

(For my father fought for you, and aduentured his life farre, and deliuered you out of the hand of Midian:

1611 marginal noteHeb. cast his life.

Judges 12:3

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And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the Lord delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

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1611 witness · Judges 12:3 · retained source text

And when I sawe that ye deliuered me not, I put my life in my handes, and passed ouer against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliuered them into my hand: Wherfore then are ye come vp vnto me this day, to fight against me?

Judges 16:30

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And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

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1611 witness · Judges 16:30 · retained source text

And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines: & he bowed himselfe with all his might: and the house fel vpon the lords, and vpon all the people that were therein: so the dead which he slew at his death, were moe, then they which he slew in his life.

1611 marginal noteHebr. my soule.

Judges 18:25

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And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.

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1611 witness · Judges 18:25 · retained source text

And the children of Dan said vnto him, Let not thy voyce bee heard among vs, lest angry fellowes run vpon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the liues of thy houshold.

1611 marginal noteHeb. bitter of soule.

Ruth 4:15

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And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.

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1611 witness · Ruth 4:15 · retained source text

And he shalbe vnto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law which loueth thee, which is better to thee then seuen sonnes, hath borne him.

1611 marginal noteHebr. to nourish.

1611 marginal noteHeb. thy gray haires.

Complete reference index — all 409 verses

Genesis 1:20 Genesis 1:30 Genesis 2:7 Genesis 2:9 Genesis 3:14 Genesis 3:17 Genesis 3:22 Genesis 3:24 Genesis 6:17 Genesis 7:11 Genesis 7:15 Genesis 7:22 Genesis 9:4 Genesis 9:5 Genesis 18:10 Genesis 18:14 Genesis 19:17 Genesis 19:19 Genesis 23:1 Genesis 25:7 Genesis 25:17 Genesis 27:46 Genesis 32:30 Genesis 42:15 Genesis 42:16 Genesis 44:30 Genesis 45:5 Genesis 47:9 Genesis 48:15 Exodus 4:19 Exodus 6:16 Exodus 6:18 Exodus 6:20 Exodus 21:23 Exodus 21:30 Leviticus 17:11 Leviticus 17:14 Leviticus 18:18 Numbers 35:31 Deuteronomy 4:9 Deuteronomy 6:2 Deuteronomy 12:23 Deuteronomy 16:3 Deuteronomy 17:19 Deuteronomy 19:21 Deuteronomy 20:19 Deuteronomy 24:6 Deuteronomy 28:66 Deuteronomy 30:15 Deuteronomy 30:19 Deuteronomy 30:20 Deuteronomy 32:47 Joshua 1:5 Joshua 2:14 Joshua 4:14 Judges 9:17 Judges 12:3 Judges 16:30 Judges 18:25 Ruth 4:15 1 Samuel 1:11 1 Samuel 7:15 1 Samuel 18:18 1 Samuel 19:5 1 Samuel 19:11 1 Samuel 20:1 1 Samuel 22:23 1 Samuel 23:15 1 Samuel 25:29 1 Samuel 26:24 1 Samuel 28:9 1 Samuel 28:21 2 Samuel 1:9 2 Samuel 4:8 2 Samuel 14:7 2 Samuel 15:21 2 Samuel 16:11 2 Samuel 18:13 2 Samuel 19:5 1 Kings 1:12 1 Kings 2:23 1 Kings 3:11 1 Kings 4:21 1 Kings 11:34 1 Kings 15:5 1 Kings 15:6 1 Kings 19:2 1 Kings 19:3 1 Kings 19:4 1 Kings 19:10 1 Kings 19:14 1 Kings 20:31 1 Kings 20:39 1 Kings 20:42 2 Kings 1:13 2 Kings 1:14 2 Kings 4:16 2 Kings 4:17 2 Kings 7:7 2 Kings 8:1 2 Kings 8:5 2 Kings 10:24 2 Kings 25:29 2 Kings 25:30 2 Chronicles 1:11 Ezra 6:10 Nehemiah 6:11 Esther 7:3 Esther 7:7 Esther 8:11 Job 2:4 Job 2:6 Job 3:20 Job 6:11 Job 7:7 Job 7:15 Job 9:21 Job 10:1 Job 10:12 Job 13:14 Job 24:22 Job 31:39 Job 33:4 Job 33:18 Job 33:20 Job 33:22 Job 33:28 Job 36:6 Job 36:14 Psalms 7:5 Psalms 16:11 Psalms 17:14 Psalms 21:4 Psalms 23:6 Psalms 26:9 Psalms 27:1 Psalms 27:4 Psalms 30:5 Psalms 31:10 Psalms 31:13 Psalms 34:12 Psalms 36:9 Psalms 38:12 Psalms 42:8 Psalms 61:6 Psalms 63:3 Psalms 64:1 Psalms 66:9 Psalms 78:50 Psalms 88:3 Psalms 91:16 Psalms 103:4 Psalms 128:5 Psalms 133:3 Psalms 143:3 Proverbs 1:19 Proverbs 2:19 Proverbs 3:2 Proverbs 3:18 Proverbs 3:22 Proverbs 4:10 Proverbs 4:13 Proverbs 4:22 Proverbs 4:23 Proverbs 5:6 Proverbs 6:23 Proverbs 6:26 Proverbs 7:23 Proverbs 8:35 Proverbs 9:11 Proverbs 10:11 Proverbs 10:16 Proverbs 10:17 Proverbs 11:19 Proverbs 11:30 Proverbs 12:10 Proverbs 12:28 Proverbs 13:3 Proverbs 13:8 Proverbs 13:12 Proverbs 13:14 Proverbs 14:27 Proverbs 14:30 Proverbs 15:4 Proverbs 15:24 Proverbs 15:31 Proverbs 16:15 Proverbs 16:22 Proverbs 18:21 Proverbs 19:23 Proverbs 21:21 Proverbs 22:4 Proverbs 31:12 Ecclesiastes 2:3 Ecclesiastes 2:17 Ecclesiastes 3:12 Ecclesiastes 5:18 Ecclesiastes 5:20 Ecclesiastes 6:12 Ecclesiastes 7:12 Ecclesiastes 7:15 Ecclesiastes 8:15 Ecclesiastes 9:9 Isaiah 15:4 Isaiah 38:12 Isaiah 38:16 Isaiah 38:20 Isaiah 43:4 Isaiah 57:10 Jeremiah 4:30 Jeremiah 8:3 Jeremiah 11:21 Jeremiah 21:7 Jeremiah 21:8 Jeremiah 21:9 Jeremiah 22:25 Jeremiah 34:20 Jeremiah 34:21 Jeremiah 38:2 Jeremiah 38:16 Jeremiah 39:18 Jeremiah 44:30 Jeremiah 45:5 Jeremiah 49:37 Jeremiah 52:33 Jeremiah 52:34 Lamentations 2:19 Lamentations 3:53 Lamentations 3:58 Ezekiel 3:18 Ezekiel 7:13 Ezekiel 13:22 Ezekiel 32:10 Ezekiel 33:15 Daniel 12:2 Jonah 1:14 Jonah 2:6 Jonah 4:3 Malachi 2:5 Matthew 2:20 Matthew 6:25 Matthew 7:14 Matthew 10:39 Matthew 16:25 Matthew 18:8 Matthew 18:9 Matthew 19:16 Matthew 19:17 Matthew 19:29 Matthew 20:28 Matthew 25:46 Mark 3:4 Mark 8:35 Mark 9:43 Mark 9:45 Mark 10:17 Mark 10:30 Mark 10:45 Luke 1:75 Luke 6:9 Luke 8:14 Luke 9:24 Luke 10:25 Luke 12:15 Luke 12:22 Luke 12:23 Luke 14:26 Luke 17:33 Luke 18:18 Luke 18:30 Luke 21:34 John 1:4 John 3:15 John 3:16 John 3:36 John 4:14 John 4:36 John 5:24 John 5:26 John 5:29 John 5:39 John 5:40 John 6:27 John 6:33 John 6:35 John 6:40 John 6:47 John 6:48 John 6:51 John 6:53 John 6:54 John 6:63 John 6:68 John 8:12 John 10:10 John 10:11 John 10:15 John 10:17 John 10:28 John 11:25 John 12:25 John 12:50 John 13:37 John 13:38 John 14:6 John 15:13 John 17:2 John 17:3 John 20:31 Acts 2:28 Acts 3:15 Acts 5:20 Acts 8:33 Acts 11:18 Acts 13:46 Acts 13:48 Acts 17:25 Acts 20:10 Acts 20:24 Acts 26:4 Acts 27:22 Romans 2:7 Romans 5:10 Romans 5:17 Romans 5:18 Romans 5:21 Romans 6:4 Romans 6:22 Romans 6:23 Romans 7:10 Romans 8:2 Romans 8:6 Romans 8:10 Romans 8:38 Romans 11:3 Romans 11:15 Romans 16:4 1 Corinthians 3:22 1 Corinthians 6:3 1 Corinthians 6:4 1 Corinthians 14:7 1 Corinthians 15:19 2 Corinthians 1:8 2 Corinthians 2:16 2 Corinthians 3:6 2 Corinthians 4:10 2 Corinthians 4:11 2 Corinthians 4:12 2 Corinthians 5:4 Galatians 2:20 Galatians 3:21 Galatians 6:8 Ephesians 4:18 Philippians 1:20 Philippians 2:16 Philippians 2:30 Philippians 4:3 Colossians 3:3 Colossians 3:4 1 Timothy 1:16 1 Timothy 2:2 1 Timothy 4:8 1 Timothy 6:12 1 Timothy 6:19 2 Timothy 1:1 2 Timothy 1:10 2 Timothy 2:4 2 Timothy 3:10 Titus 1:2 Titus 3:7 Hebrews 7:3 Hebrews 7:16 Hebrews 11:35 James 1:12 James 4:14 1 Peter 3:7 1 Peter 3:10 1 Peter 4:3 2 Peter 1:3 1 John 1:1 1 John 1:2 1 John 2:16 1 John 2:25 1 John 3:14 1 John 3:15 1 John 3:16 1 John 5:11 1 John 5:12 1 John 5:13 1 John 5:16 1 John 5:20 Jude 1:21 Revelation 2:7 Revelation 2:10 Revelation 3:5 Revelation 8:9 Revelation 11:11 Revelation 13:8 Revelation 13:15 Revelation 17:8 Revelation 20:12 Revelation 20:15 Revelation 21:6 Revelation 21:27 Revelation 22:1 Revelation 22:2 Revelation 22:14 Revelation 22:17 Revelation 22:19

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Genesis 1:20 Judges 18:25 Job 10:1 Proverbs 12:10 Ezekiel 33:15 John 6:63 Galatians 3:21 Revelation 22:19