Greek noun (neuter) · G2226
ζῶον
zoondzo'-on
living thing
23 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: zōon
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2226is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2226
a live thing, i.e. an animal
The King James renders it: beast.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
zoon is rendered "living thing". It stands 23 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Twenty of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Hebrews 13:11Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.
Hebrews 13:11ζῴων
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twenty of the word's twenty-three uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- living creatures13
- living creature7
- animals2
- of animals1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 23, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ζῷα8
- ζῴων8
- ζῷον4
- ζῴου3
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter plural8N-GPN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter plural8N-NPN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular4N-NSN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular3N-GSN
Hebrews
one use
Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.
- ζῴωνzoonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of animals
2 Peter
one use
These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.
- ζῷαzoanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: animals
Jude
one use
These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.
- ζῷαzoanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: animals
Revelation
twenty uses
And before the throne was something like a sea of glass, as clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, covered with eyes in front and back.
- ζῷαzoanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: living creatures
The first living creature was like a lion, the second like a calf, the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight.
- ζῷονzoonnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: living creature
- ζῷονzoonnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: living creature
- ζῷονzoonnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: living creature
- ζῷονzoonnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: living creature
And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
- ζῷαzoanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: living creatures
And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the One seated on the throne who lives forever and ever,
- ζῷαzoanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: living creatures
Then I saw a Lamb who appeared to have been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
- ζῴωνzoonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: living creatures
When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
- ζῷαzoanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: living creatures
Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels and living creatures and elders encircling the throne, and their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands.
- ζῴωνzoonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: living creatures
And the four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped.
- ζῷαzoanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: living creatures
Then I watched as the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say in a thunderous voice, “Come!”
- ζῴωνzoonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: living creatures
And when the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!”
- ζῴουzoounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: living creature
And when the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” Then I looked and saw a black horse, and its rider held in his hand a pair of scales.
- ζῴουzoounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: living creature
And I heard what sounded like a voice from among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine.”
- ζῴωνzoonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: living creatures
And when the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!”
- ζῴουzoounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: living creature
And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. And they fell facedown before the throne and worshiped God,
- ζῴωνzoonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: living creatures
And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
- ζῴωνzoonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: living creatures
Then one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
- ζῴωνzoonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: living creatures
And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying: “Amen, Hallelujah!”
- ζῷαzoanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: living creatures
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.