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Of this life

βιωτικόςStrong’s G0982

biōtikos

Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament

In short

Biōtikos is the Greek word usually translated “things of this life” and “life”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.

“And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.”
Luke 21:34 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “things of this life” and “life”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • things of this life 2
  • of life 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Corinthians 2
  • Luke 1

2 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
Greek dictionary

βιωτικός biōtikos · of this life

βιωτικός, -ή, -όν (βιός), pertaining to life, hence, worldly (Field, Notes, 171): Luk.21:34, 1Co.6:3, 4.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “life” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

LIFE, noun

plu lives. [See Live.]

  1. In a general sense, that state of animals and plants, or of an organized being, in which its natural functions and motions are performed, or in which its organs are capable of performing their functions.
  2. In animals, animation; vitality; and in man, that state of being in which the soul and body are united.
  3. In plants, the state in which they grow or are capable of growth, by means of the circulation of the sap.
  4. The present state of existence; the time from birth to death.“If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable” 1 Corinthians 15:19
All definitions
  1. Manner of living; conduct; deportment, in regard to morals.
  2. Condition; course of living, in regard to happiness and misery.
  3. Blood, the supposed vehicle of animation.
  4. Animals in general; animal being.
  5. System of animal nature.
  6. Spirit; animation; briskness; vivacity; resolution.
  7. The living form; real person or state; in opposition to a copy; as, a picture is taken from the life; a description from the life
  8. Exact resemblance; with to, before life
  9. General state of man, or of social manners; as the studies and arts that polish life
  10. Condition; rank in society; as high life and low life
  11. Common occurrences; course of things; human affairs.
  12. A person; a living being; usually or always, a human being.
  13. Narrative of a past life; history of the events of life; biographical narration.
  14. In Scripture, nourishment; support of life“For the tree of the field is man's life” Deuteronomy 20:19
  15. The stomach or appetite.“His life abhorreth bread” Job 33:20
  16. The enjoyments or blessings of the present life“Having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come” 1 Timothy 4:8
  17. Supreme felicity.“To be spiritually minded is life and peace” Romans 8:6
  18. Eternal happiness in heaven. Romans 5:10
  19. Restoration to life Romans 5:10
  20. The author and giver of supreme felicity.“I am the way, the truth, and the life” John 14:6
  21. A quickening, animating and strengthening principle, in a moral sense. John 6:27
  22. The state of being in force, or the term for which an instrument has legal operation; as the life of an execution.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.