ΒΙΟΥΣ, βιους
BIOUS, bious
Sounds Like: BEE-oos
Translations: life, a life, lives, living, to live, they live
From the root: ΒΙΟΣ, ΒΙΟΩ
Part of Speech: Noun, Verb
Explanation: This word can be either a noun or a verb. As a noun (ΒΙΟΣ), it refers to life, especially the course of life or the means of living. As a verb (ΒΙΟΩ), it means 'to live' or 'to pass one's life'. In the provided examples, it appears to function as both a noun (referring to 'lives' or 'life') and a verb (meaning 'they live'). It is a compound word if it's an inflection of the verb ΒΙΟΩ, which is derived from the noun ΒΙΟΣ.
Inflection: Noun: Masculine, Accusative Plural; Verb: Present Active Indicative, 3rd Person Plural, or Present Active Participle, Masculine, Nominative Singular
Strong’s numbers: G0979 (Lookup on BibleHub), G0980 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 49:256
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
No other words from the same root, ΒΙΟΣ, ΒΙΟΩ, appear in our texts.
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