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2.
(
&
, 979) (cf. Eng. words beginning with
), is used in three respects (a) of
“the period or duration of life,” e.g., in the
KJV
of 1 Pet. 4:3, “the time past of our life”
(the
RV
follows the mss. which omit “of our life”); Luke 8:14; 2 Tim. 2:4; (b) of “the
manner of life, life in regard to its moral conduct,” 1 Tim. 2:2; 1 John 2:16; (c) of “the
means of life, livelihood, maintenance, living,” Mark 12:44; Luke 8:43; 15:12, 30; 21:4;
1 John 3:17, “goods,”
RV
(
KJV
, “good”). See
GOODS
.¶
Note:
“While
is ‘life’ intensive …
is ‘life’ extensive.… In
, used as
manner of ‘life,’ there is an ethical sense often inhering which, in classical Greek at least,
does not possess.” In Scripture
is “the nobler word, expressing as it continually
does, all of highest and best which the saints possess in God” (Trench,
- !
Sec.xxvii).
3.
$
(
)
, 5590), besides its meanings, “heart, mind, soul,” denotes “life” in
two chief respects, (a) “breath of life, the natural life,” e.g., Matt. 2:20; 6:25; Mark 10:45;
Luke 12:22; Acts 20:10; Rev. 8:9; 12:11 (cf. Lev. 17:11; Esth. 8:11); (b) “the seat of
personality,” e.g., Luke 9:24, explained in v. 25 as “own self” See list under
SOUL
. See
also
HEART
,
MIND
.
Notes:
(1) “Speaking generally,
$
, is the individual life, the living being,
whereas
, is the life of that being, cf. Ps. 66:9, ‘God … which holdeth our soul
(
$
in life (
),’ and John 10:10, ‘I came that they may have life (
),’ with v. 11,
‘The Good Shepherd layeth down His life (
$
) for the sheep.’”† (2) In Rev. 13:15,
KJV
,
$
, “breath,” is translated “life” (
RV
, “breath”). (3) In 2 Cor. 1:8, “we
despaired even of life,” the verb
, “to live,” is used in the infinitive mood, as a noun,
and translated “life” (lit., “living”). In Heb. 2:15 the infinitive mood of the same verb is
translated “lifetime.”
4.
(
&
, 981), from
, “to spend one’s life, to live,” denotes “a manner of
life,” Acts 26:4.¶
5.
(
)
, 72), “a manner of life,” 2 Tim. 3:10; see
CONDUCT
.
6.
(
$ )
, 391), “behavior, conduct,” is translated “manner of life”
(
KJV
“conversation”) in the
RV
of Gal. 1:13; 1 Tim. 4:12; 1 Pet. 1:18; 3:16; “living,” in 1
Pet. 1:15. See
BEHAVIOR
.
B. Adjectives.
1.
(
, 982), “pertaining to life” (
), is translated “of this life,” in
Luke 21:34, with reference to cares; in 1 Cor. 6:3 “(things) that pertain to this life,” and
v. 4, “(things) pertaining to this life,” i.e., matters of this world, concerning which
Christians at Corinth were engaged in public lawsuits one with another; such matters
were to be regarded as relatively unimportant in view of the great tribunals to come under
the jurisdiction of saints hereafter. Moulton and Milligan (
F !
) illustrate the word
from phrases in the papyri, e.g., “business (documents)”; “business concerning my
livelihood”; “(stories) of ordinary life.”¶
† From
Notes on Thessalonians,
by Hogg and Vine, p. 325.