zōopoieō · give life

What it means

zōopoieō (ζωοποιέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “give life”.

Make alive; restore to life.

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. To make alive, or raise the dead.

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

How it is translated

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

• gives life ×4
• made alive ×3
• give life ×2
• gives them life ×1
• life-giving ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• John×3
• Romans×2
• 1 Corinthians×3
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Galatians×1
• 1 Peter×1

• John 5:21

  For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom he wishes.

• John 6:63

  It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh is of no use. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

• Romans 4:17

  (as it is written: I have made you a father of many nations) in the presence of the God whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls the things that do not exist as though they existed.

• Romans 8:11

  And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised the Messiah Jesus from the dead will give life also to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who dwells in you.

• 1 Corinthians 15:22

  For just as in Adam all die, so also in the Messiah all will be made alive.

• 1 Corinthians 15:36

  You fool! What you sow is not made alive unless it dies.

• 1 Corinthians 15:45

  So also it is written: The first man, Adam, became a living soul; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

• 2 Corinthians 3:6

  who also made us sufficient to be servants of a new covenant, not of letter but of Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

• Galatians 3:21

  Is the law then against the promises of God? By no means! For if a law had been given that could give life, righteousness would really have been by the law.

• 1 Peter 3:18

  Because the Messiah also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, so that he might bring you to God, put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

And 1 more times.