979 bíos – properly, God's gift of physical life, animating all creation "to live and move and have its being" (cf. Ac 17:28); (figuratively) the way a person invests (or spends) the gift of physical life.

979 (bios) is "the period or duration of earthly life . . . in a secondary sense, the means by which life is sustained; and thirdly, the manner in which that life is spent" (R. Trench).

[979 (bíos) is the root of the English term "biography," i.e. the record (account) of how we invested (or spent!) our physical lives.]

STRONGS NT 979: βίος

βίος, βίου, ὁ (from Homer down);

a. life extensively, i. e. the period or course of life (see below and Trench, § xxvii.): Luke 8:14; 1 Timothy 2:2; 2 Timothy 2:4; 1 John 2:16; 1 Peter 4:3 (Rec.).

b. (as often in Greek writings from Hesiod, Works, 230, 575; Herodotus, Xenophon) that by which life is sustained, resources, wealth (A. V. living): Mark 12:44; Luke 8:43 (WH omits; Tr marginal reading brackets the clause); Luke 15:12, 30; Luke 21:4; 1 John 3:17 (goods). (For לֶחֶם in Proverbs 31:14 ().) [SYNONYMS: βίος, ζωή: ζωή existence (having death as its antithesis); βίος the period, means, manner, of existence. Hence, the former is more naturally used of animals, the latter of men; cf. zoology, biography. N. T. usage exalts ζωή, and so tends to debase βίος. But see Lightfoot, Ignatius ad Rom. 7 [ET].]



life, living.

A primary word; life, i.e. (literally) the present state of existence; by implication, the means of livelihood -- good, life, living.

βιβλίον — 18 Occ.
βιβλίου — 6 Occ.
βίβλῳ — 7 Occ.
ΒΙΒΛΟΣ — 1 Occ.
βίβλου — 1 Occ.
βίβλους — 1 Occ.
βεβρωκόσιν — 1 Occ.
Βιθυνίαν — 1 Occ.
Βιθυνίας — 1 Occ.
βίον — 7 Occ.
βιῶσαι — 1 Occ.
βίωσίν — 1 Occ.
βιωτικά — 2 Occ.
βιωτικαῖς — 1 Occ.
βλαβεράς — 1 Occ.
βλάψαν — 1 Occ.
βλάψῃ — 1 Occ.
βλαστᾷ — 1 Occ.
βλαστήσασα — 1 Occ.
ἐβλάστησεν — 2 Occ.