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Featured studies
28 results- StudyDavid's Life in the Psalms: the thirteen historical titles · MannaFestThirteen psalms whose titles name an event in David's life, each set beside the chapter in Samuel that tells it, in the order he lived them.
- StudyEternal LifeA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Resurrection and the LifeA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Shepherd's Life — Psalm 23Psalm 23 is built out of a working trade. What a shepherd in Judah did with a rod, a staff, a fold and a water source, verse by verse.
- StudyThe Way, the Truth, and the LifeA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
Verses
517 results- VerseLeviticus 24:18Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.
- VerseJohn 1:4In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
- VerseJohn 6:48I am the bread of life.
- VerseJohn 12:25Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
- VerseExodus 21:23But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life—
People
3 results- PersonSamsonThe Nazirite judge of supernatural strength and unguarded appetites; betrayed by Delilah, blinded at Gaza, he slew more in his death between the pillars than in his life.
- PersonEpaphroditusThe Philippians' messenger and minister to Paul's need — brother, fellow-worker, fellow-soldier — who was sick nigh unto death and gambled his life for the work of Christ (Php…
- PersonEuodiaPhilippian laborer in the gospel, exhorted with Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord (Php 4:2-3) — women who labored with Paul, whose names are in the book of life.
Places
1 resultWords (Strong's)
- WordG2222 ζωή · zōḗ (Greek)life (literally or figuratively). The Greek word stands 135 times in the original text.
- WordG979 βίος · bíos (Greek)life, i.e. (literally) the present state of existence. The Greek word stands 10 times in the original text.
- WordH2416 חַי · chay (Hebrew)alive. The Hebrew word stands 498 times in the original text.
- WordH2417 חַי · chay (Hebrew)alive. The Hebrew word stands 7 times in the original text.
- WordH3117 יוֹם · yôwm (Hebrew)a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used…. The Hebrew word…
Concepts
3 results- ConceptThe Tree of LifeStanding in the middle of Eden and in the middle of the city at the end: guarded in Genesis, given freely in Revelation.
- ConceptSacrificeLife given in place of life: the principle stated in Leviticus 17:11 and carried from Eden's coats of skin to Calvary.
- ConceptThe Image of GodHumanity made in God's likeness: the ground of every human life's worth, damaged at the fall and never revoked.
Themes
14 results- ThemeRedemptionRedemption is the Bible's word for rescue that costs something. Two Hebrew verbs carry the weight: *ga'al*, the act of a near kinsman (*go'el*) who buys back land, a person, or…
- ThemeFaith**Faith across the canon is less a feeling than a transaction: a person trusts what God has said and acts on it before the outcome is visible.** The Old Testament rarely uses…
- ThemeJusticeScripture's justice vocabulary runs on two paired Hebrew terms: *mishpat* (H4941), the right verdict rendered at the city gate — a legal, courtroom word — and *tsedaqah*…
- ThemeWisdomWisdom in Scripture (Hebrew *hokmah*, H2451) is skilled living before God, not accumulated information. Its first appearances are not proverbs but craftsmen: the wise-hearted…
- ThemeWorshipScripture's worship vocabulary carries two roots held together: *shachah* (to bow down, prostrate) and *abad* (to serve, to labor for). *Shachah* is first rendered "worship" at…
Topics
1 resultProphecies
9 results- ProphecyRiver of LifeA river of life will flow from God's throne.
- ProphecyTree of Life RestoredAccess to the Tree of Life will be restored.
- ProphecyTree of Life RestoredThe tree of life, lost in Eden, is restored in the New Jerusalem.
- ProphecyHezekiah's Life Extended 15 YearsIsaiah prophesied King Hezekiah would recover from terminal illness and live exactly 15 more years—a specific numerical prediction.
- ProphecyShow Path of Life Before the FaceDavid's prophetic declaration that God would show him 'the path of life' leading to God's presence and right hand is applied by Peter directly to Christ's resurrection and…
Apologetics
1 resultVoices
8 results- VoiceCosmas IndicopleustesCosmas was an Alexandrian merchant who spent his working life at sea. He sailed the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, traded along the coast of East Africa, and went inland into…
- VoiceFanny CrosbyFanny Crosby lost her sight as a baby to a doctor's botched treatment, and refused for the rest of her life to be pitied for it — she said the first face she ever saw would be…
- VoicePalladius of GalatiaPalladius was born in Galatia, in central Asia Minor, about 363 or 364. In 386 he went to Egypt to see the monks, and the rest of his life came out of that decision. He spent…
- VoiceProcopius of GazaProcopius was born about 465 at Gaza, on the coast of Palestine, and died there about 528. He spent his working life as a teacher of rhetoric, and he was the leading figure in…
- VoiceDidymus the BlindDidymus lost his sight at four years old, before he had learned to read. He never read a page in his life. He learned Scripture by having it read aloud to him, and he learned…
Apocrypha (study resources)
169 results- Study resourceSirach 30:17Death is better than a bitter life or continual sickness.
- Study resourceBaruch 3:9Hear, Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom.
- Study resourceTobit 12:10But they that sin are enemies to their own life.
- Study resource2 Esdras 13:55Thy life hast thou ordered in wisdom, and hast called understanding thy mother.
- Study resourceSirach 11:14Prosperity and adversity, life and death, poverty and riches, come of the Lord.