Strong’s G981 · Greek

βίωσις
bíōsis

Definition

living (properly, the act, by implication, the mode)

Etymology

from G980 (βιόω);

Where the KJV renders it

  • manner of life

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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