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lives

Meaning of “lives”

Sense 1: States or periods of living. Sense 2: Remains alive or conducts one's life.

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28 occurrences25 verses15 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 9:5

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Genesis 9:5
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Genesis 9:5 · retained source text

And surely your blood of your liues will I require: at the hand of euery beast will I require it, & at the hand of man, at the hand of euery mans brother will I require the life of man.

Genesis 45:7
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Genesis 45:7 · retained source text

And God sent me before you, to preserue you a posteritie in the earth, and to saue your liues by a great deliuerance.

1611 marginal noteHebr. to put for you a remnant.

Genesis 47:25
And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Genesis 47:25 · retained source text

And they said, Thou hast saued our liues: let vs find grace in the sight of my LORD, and we will be Pharaohs seruants.

Exodus 1:14
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Exodus 1:14 · retained source text

And they made their liues bitter, with hard bondage, in morter and in bricke, and in all maner of seruice in the fielde: all their seruice wherein they made them serue, was with rigour.

Joshua 2:13
And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Joshua 2:13 · retained source text

And that ye will saue aliue my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they haue, and deliuer our liues from death.

Joshua 9:24
And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the Lord thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Joshua 9:24 · retained source text

And they answered Ioshua, and said, Because it was certainely told thy seruants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his seruant Moses to giue you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our liues because of you, and haue done this thing.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 7.1.

Judges 5:18
Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Judges 5:18 · retained source text

Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that ieoparded their liues vnto the death, in the high places of the field.

1611 marginal noteHeb. exposed to reproch.

Judges 18:25
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
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.

2 Samuel 1:23
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 2 Samuel 1:23 · retained source text

Saul and Ionathan were louely and pleasant in their liues, and in their death they were not diuided: they were swifter then Eagles, they were stronger then Lions.

1611 marginal noteOr, sweet.

2 Samuel 19:5
And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;
3 word occurrences in this verse
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1611 witness · 2 Samuel 19:5 · retained source text

And Ioab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy seruants, which this day haue saued thy life, and the liues of thy sonnes, & of thy daughters, and the liues of thy wiues, and the liues of thy concubines,

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