Lively, Living
Lively, Living
lvli, living (, hay; , zao): Living, sometimes lively, is the translation of hay (often also translated life); it denotes all beings possessed of life (Gen 1:21, Gen 1:24; Gen 2:7, Gen 2:19; Exo 21:35, live); we have frequently the phrase, the land of the living (as contrasted with she’ol, the abode of the dead), e.g. Job 28:13; Psa 27:13; Psa 52:5; Isa 38:11; the characteristically Biblical expression, the living God, also frequently occurs (Jos 3:10; 1Sa 17:26, 1Sa 17:36; 2Ki 19:4; Psa 84:2); also frequently in the New Testament as the translation of zao (Mat 16:16; Mat 26:63; Joh 6:57, the living Father; Act 14:15); lively in Exo 1:19 (hayeh) and Psa 38:19 denotes fullness of life, vigor; hayyah, a living being, is mostly confined to Ezekiel, translated living creatures (Eze 1:5, Eze 1:13, Eze 1:14, etc.), also Gen 1:28; Gen 8:17, living thing; living is sometimes applied figuratively to that which is not actually alive; thus we have the phrase living waters (Jer 2:13; Jer 17:13; Zec 14:8, Living waters shall go out from Jerusalem) in contrast with stagnant waters – waters that can give life; so Joh 4:10, Joh 4:11 (bubbling up from the spring at bottom of the well); Joh 7:38; Rev 7:17 the King James Version; living bread (Joh 6:51); a new and living way (Heb 10:20), perhaps equivalent to ever-living in Christ; living stones (1Pe 2:4, 1Pe 2:5) are those made alive in Christ; a living hope (a hope full of life), 1Pe 1:3; living (zao)is sometimes also manner of life (Luk 15:13; Col 2:20); diago, to lead or go through, is also so translated (Tit 3:3); bos is means of life, translated living (Mar 12:44; Luk 8:43); living, in this sense, occurs in Apocrypha as the translation of zoe, Defraud not the poor of his living (Ecclesiasticus 4:1).
The Revised Version (British and American) has living for alive (Lev 14:4), for the lively (Act 7:38), for quick (Heb 4:12), for lively (1Pe 1:3; 1Pe 2:5), for conversation (1Pe 1:15; 2Pe 3:11); living creatures for beasts (Rev 4:6; Rev 5:6, etc.); every living thing for all the substance (Deu 11:6); living things for beasts (Lev 11:2, Lev 11:47 twice); for living (Psa 58:9), the green (thorns under the pots), margin Wrath shall take them away while living as with a whirlwind; for the book of the living (Psa 69:28), the book of life; for (I am) he that liveth (Rev 1:18), the Living one; for living fountains of waters (Rev 7:17), fountains of waters of life; for trade (Rev 18:17), gain their living, margin work the sea; for Son of the living God (Joh 6:69), the Holy One of God (emended text).