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Noun bios (livelihood, existence) in the Bible
(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Mark
| 12: 44 | For all of them have contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, her whole livelihood (bios)." |
Luke
| 8: 14 | As for what fell among the thorns, these are the ones who hear; but as they go on their way, they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of existence (bios), and their fruit does not mature. |
| 8: 43 | Now there was a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years; and though she had spent her whole livelihood (bios) on physicians, no one could cure her. |
| 15: 12 | The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.' So he divided his livelihood (bios) between them. |
| 15: 30 | But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your livelihood (bios) with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!' |
| 21: 4 | for all of them have contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in all her livelihood (bios)." |
1 John
| 2: 16 | for all that is in the world - the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in livelihood (bios) - comes not from the Father but from the world. |
| 3: 17 | How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's livelihood (bios) and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? |
1 Timothy
| 2: 2 | for kings and all who are in high positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable existence (bios) in all godliness and dignity. |
2 Timothy
| 2: 4 | No one serving in the army gets entangled in everyday livelihood (bios); the soldier's aim is to please the enlisting officer. |
Proverbs (LXX)
| 3: 2 | for length of existence (bios, Heb.: yôm = day), and years of life, and peace, shall they add to thee. |
| 3: 16 | For length of existence (bios, Heb.: yôm = day) and years of life are in her right hand; and in her left hand are wealth and glory: |
| 4: 10 | Hear, my son, and receive my words; and the years of thy life shall be increased, that the paths of the livelihood (bios, Heb.: ḥay = living) may become many for you. |
| 5: 9 | lest thou give away thy life to others, and thy livelihood (bios, Heb.: šāne = years) to the merciless: |
| 16: 17 | The paths of life turn aside from evil; and the ways of righteousness are length of existence (bios, Heb.: nepeš = self). He that receives instruction shall be in prosperity; and he that regards reproofs shall be made wise. He that keeps his ways, preserves his own soul; and he that loves his life will spare his mouth. |
| 31: 3 | Give not thy wealth to women, nor thy mind and existence (bios, Heb.: derek = voie) to remorse. |
| 31: 12 | For she employs all her livelihood (bios, Heb.: ḥay = living) for her husbands good. |
| 31: 14 | She is like a ship trading from a distance: so she procures her livelihood (bios, Heb.: leḥem = pain). |
Job (LXX)
| 7: 1 | Is not the existence (bios, Heb. ʾĕnôš = human being) of man upon earth a state of trial? and his existence as that of a hireling by the day? |
| 7: 6 | And my existence (bios, Heb. yôm = day) is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope. |
| 7: 16 | For I shall not live for ever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my existence (bios, Heb. yôm = day) is vain. |
| 8: 9 | (for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our existence (bios, Heb. yôm = day) upon the earth is a shadow:) |
| 9: 25 | But my existence (bios, Heb. yôm = day) is swifter than a post: my days have fled away, and they knew it not. |
| 10: 5 | Or is thy existence (bios, Heb. yôm = day) human, or thy years the years of a man, |
| 10: 20 | Is not the time of my existence (bios, Heb. yôm = day) short? suffer me to rest a little, |
| 12: 12 | In length of time is wisdom, and in long existence (bios, Heb. yôm = day) knowledge. |
| 14: 5 | if even his existence (bios, Heb. yôm = day) should be but one day upon the earth: and his months are numbered by him: thou hast appointed him for a time, and he shall by no means exceed it. |
| 14: 6 | Depart from him, that he may be quiet, and take pleasure in his existence (bios, Heb. yôm = day), though as a hireling. |
| 14: 14 | For if a man should die, shall he live again, having accomplished the days of his existence (bios, Heb. yôm = day)? I will wait till I exist again? |
| 15: 20 | All the existence (bios, Heb. yôm = day) of the ungodly is spent in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered. |
| 21: 13 | And they spend their existence (bios, Heb. yôm = day) in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave. |
Song of Solomon (LXX)
| 8: 7 | Much water will not be able to quench love, and rivers shall not drown it; if a man would give all his livelihood (bios, Heb. hôn = wealth) for love, men would utterly despise it. |
1 Esdras (LXX: Esdras A)
| 1: 29 (2 Chr 35, 24) | Then gat he up upon his second chariot; and being brought back to Jerusalem he exchanged his existence (bios, Heb. mût = to die), and was buried in his fathers sepulchre. |
Esdras - Nehemiah (LXX: Esdras B)
| 7: 26 | And whosoever shall not do the law of God, and the law of the king readily, judgment shall be taken upon him, whether for death or for chastisement, or for a fine of his livelihood (bios, Heb. nĕkas = goods, property), or casting into prison. |
Esther (LXX)
| 3: 13b | Ruling over many nations, and having obtained dominion over the whole world, I was minded, (not elated by the confidence of power, but ever conducting myself with great moderation and with gentleness,) to make the existences (bios) of my subjects continually tranquil, desiring both to maintain the kingdom quiet and orderly to its utmost limits, and to restore the peace desired by all men. |
Sirach (LXX)
| 29: 22 | Better is the existence (bios) of a poor man in a mean cottage, than delicate fare in another man's house. |
| 31: 4 | The poor laboureth in the lowering of his livehoold (bios); and when he leaveth off, he is still needy. |
| 38: 19 | In affliction also sorrow remaineth: and the existence (bios) of the poor is the curse of the heart. |
| 40: 29 | The existence (bios) of him that dependeth on another man's table is not to be counted for a existence; for he polluteth himself with other men's meat: but a wise man well nurtured will beware thereof. |
Wisdom (LXX)
| 2: 1 | For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our existence (bios) is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave. |
| 2: 4 | and our name shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall have our works in remembrance, and our existence (bios) shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, that is driven away with the beams of the sun, and overcome with the heat thereof. |
| 2: 15 | He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his existence (bios) is not like other men's, his ways are of another fashion. |
| 4: 9 | But wisdom is the grey hair unto men, and an unspotted existence (bios) is old age. |
| 5: 4 | Fools, we imputed their existence (bios) to madness, their death to dishonor. |
| 7: 6 | For all men have one entrance into existence (bios), and the like going out. |
| 8: 5 | If riches be a possession to be desired in this existence (bios); what is richer than wisdom, that worketh all things? |
| 8: 7 | And if a man love righteousness, his labours are virtues: for she teacheth temperance and prudence, justice and fortitude: which are such things, as men can have nothing more profitable in their existence (bios). |
| 10: 8 | For regarding not wisdom, they gat not only this hurt, that they knew not the things which were good; but also left behind their existence (bios) a memorial of their foolishness: so that in the things wherein they offended they could not so much as be hid. |
| 14: 21 | And this was an occasion to deceive the existence (bios): for men, serving either calamity or tyranny, did ascribe unto stones and stocks the incommunicable name. |
| 14: 24 | they kept neither existences (bios) nor marriages any longer undefiled: but either one slew another traiterously or grieved him by adultery. |
| 15: 9 | Notwithstanding his care is, not that he shall have much labour, nor that his existence (bios) is short: but striveth to excel goldsmiths and silversmiths, and endeavoureth to do like the workers in brass, and counteth it his glory to make counterfeit things. |
| 15: 10 | His heart is ashes, his hope is more vile than earth, and his existence (bios) of less value than clay: |
| 15: 12 | But they counted our existence (bios) a pastime, and our time here a market for gain: for, say they, we must be getting every way, though it be by evil means. |
2 Maccabees (LXX)
| 4: 7 | But after having exchange the existence (bios) of Seleucus, when Antiochus, called Epiphanes, took the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias laboured underhand to be high priest, |
| 5: 5 | Now when there was gone forth a false rumour, as though Antiochus had took aside his existence (bios), Jason took at the least a thousand men, and suddenly made an assault upon the city; and they that were upon the walls being put back, and the city at length taken, Menelaus fled into the castle: |
| 6: 19 | But he, choosing rather to die gloriously, than an existence (bios) stained with such an abomination, spit it forth, and came of his own accord to the torment. |
| 6: 27 | Wherefore now, manfully changing this existence (bios), I will shew myself such an one as mine age requireth, |
| 9: 28 | Thus the murderer and blasphemer having suffered most grievously, as he entreated other men, so overturned the existence (bios) with a miserable death in a strange country in the mountains. |
| 10: 13 | Whereupon being accused of the king's friends before Eupator, and called traitor at every word, because he had left Cyprus, that Philometor had committed unto him, and departed to Antiochus Epiphanes, and seeing that he was in no honourable place, he was so discouraged, that he poisoned himself and left behind existence (bios). |
| 14: 25 | He prayed him also to take a wife, and to beget children: so he married, was quiet, and took part of this existence (bios). |
3 Maccabees (LXX)
| 4: 4 | They were sent out unanimously by the generals in the several cities, with such stern and pitiless feeling, that the exceptional nature of the infliction moved even some of their enemies. These, influenced by sentiments of common humanity, and reflecting upon the uncertain issue of existence (bios), shed tears at this their miserable expulsion. |
| 4: 6 | Girls who had entered the bridal partnership of existence (bios) (i.e. bridal chamber) quite lately, to enjoy the partnership of marriage, exchanged pleasure for misery; and with dust scattered upon their myrrh anointed heads, were hurried along unveiled, and, in the midst of outlandish insults, set up with one accord a lamentable cry in lieu of the marriage hymn. |
| 5: 49 | thought that they had come to the last moment of their existences (bios), to the end of what they had tremblingly expected. They gave way, therefore, to lamentations and moans: they kissed each other: those nearest of kin to each other hung about one another's necks: fathers about their sons, mothers their daughters: other women held their infants to their breasts, which drew what seemed their last milk. |
| 6: 1 | And Eleazar, an illustrious priest of the country, who had attained to length of days, and whose existence (bios) had been adorned with virtue, caused the presbyters who were about him to cease to cry out to the holy God, and prayed thus: |
| 6: 10 | If our existence (bios) has during our exile been stained with iniquity, deliver us from the hand of the enemy, and destroy us, O Lord, by the death which thou preferrest. |
4 Maccabees (LXX)
| 1: 15 | Reasoning is, then, intellect accompanied by a existence (bios) of rectitude, putting foremost the consideration of wisdom. |
| 4: 1 | For a certain man named Simon, who was in opposition to Onias, who once held the high priesthood for existence (bios), and was an honourable and good man, after that by slandering him in every way, he could not injure him with the people, went away as an exile, with the intention of betraying his country. |
| 5: 36 | Mouth! thou shalt not pollute my old age, nor the full stature of a perfect existence (bios). |
| 6: 18 | For it would be irrational if having lived in accordance with truth up to old age and having maintained in accordance with law the reputation of such an existence (bios), we should now change our course |
| 7: 7 | O harmonizer with the law, and sage devoted to a divine existence (bios)! |
| 7: 15 | O blessed old age, and reverend hoar head, and existence (bios) obedient to the law, which the faithful seal of death perfected. |
| 8: 8 | and, conforming to the Greek mode of existence (bios), alter your rule, and revel in youth's delights. |
| 8: 23 | Why withdraw ourselves from a most sweet existence (bios), and deprive ourselves of this pleasant world? |
| 10: 15 | By the blessed death of my brethren, and the eternal punishment of the tyrant, and the glorious existence (bios) of the pious, I will not repudiate the noble brotherhood. |
| 12: 18 | but on you he will take vengeance both in this present existence (bios) and when you are dead |
| 13: 24 | For being educated in the same law, and practising the same virtues, and reared up in a just course of existence (bios), they increased this harmony with each other. |
| 16: 18 | Remember that through God ye obtained existence (bios), and have enjoyed it. |
| 17: 14 | The tyrant was the opposite; and the world and the existence (bios) men were the spectators. |
| 18: 9 | And these my children, having arrived at maturity, their father died: blessed was he! for having sought out an existence (bios) of fertility in children, he was not grieved with a period of loss of children. |
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