zōon · living creature, animal

What it means

zōon (ζῶον) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “living creature, animal”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The beings beside God's throne.
2. A living creature that lives by instinct, without reason.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• living creatures ×13
• living creature ×7
• animals ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Hebrews×1
• 2 Peter×1
• Jude×1
• Revelation×20

• Hebrews 13:11

  For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the Holy Place by the high priest as an offering for sin are burned outside the camp.

• 2 Peter 2:12

  But these, like irrational animals, born by nature for capture and destruction, blaspheming in matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,

• Jude 1:10

  But these blaspheme all that they do not know, and what they understand by instinct, like irrational animals, by these things they are destroyed.

• Revelation 4:6

  and before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal. And in the middle of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind.

• Revelation 4:7

  And the first living creature was like a lion, and the second living creature like a calf, and the third living creature had the face as of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight.

• Revelation 4:8

  And the four living creatures, each of them having six wings apiece, are full of eyes all around and within; and they have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God the Almighty, who was and who is and who is coming.”

• Revelation 4:9

  And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who lives to the ages of the ages,

• Revelation 5:6

  And I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though slaughtered, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

• Revelation 5:8

  And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

• Revelation 5:11

  And I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,

• Revelation 5:14

  And the four living creatures were saying, “Amen!” and the elders fell down and worshiped.

• Revelation 6:1

  And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, “Come!”

• Revelation 6:3

  And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come!”

• Revelation 6:5

  And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, “Come!” And I looked, and look, a black horse, and the one who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand.

• Revelation 6:6

  And I heard something like a voice in the middle of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.”

• Revelation 6:7

  And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come!”

• Revelation 7:11

  And all the angels were standing around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell before the throne on their faces and worshiped God,

• Revelation 14:3

  And they sing as it were a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the hundred forty four thousand, who had been bought from the earth.

• Revelation 15:7

  And one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the fury of God, who lives to the ages of the ages.

• Revelation 19:4

  And the twenty four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, “Amen! Hallelujah!”

And 3 more times.