LOGOI

The corpus record

ζωοποι-έω

zoopoieo

make alive

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Where it lives

  • 1 Peter 1 · 5.8/10k
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  • 1 Corinthians 3 · 4.44/10k
  • Romans 2 · 2.85/10k
  • 2 Corinthians 1 · 2.23/10k
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  • John 3 · 1.96/10k
  • Esdras II 1 · 0.84/10k
  • Job 1 · 0.75/10k
  • Regnorum IV 1 · 0.58/10k
  • Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
  • Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

= ζωογονέω I, Arist. HA 555b9; = ζωογονέω II.2, Id. GA 730a2, Thphr. CP 3.22.4: metaph., D.S. 2.52.

II make alive, bring to life, endow with life

make alive, θανατῶσαι καὶ ζ. LXX 4 Ki. 5.7, cf. Ev.Jo. 5.21; bring to life, νεκρά Luc. VH 1.22, cf. Sch. E. Alc. 122; endow with life, ἑαυτό Dam. Pr. 78, al., cf. Procl. Inst. 25:—Pass., ib. 209.

2 preserve alive

preserve alive, LXX Jd. 21.14.

In the wild

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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