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Life
King James Dictionary
or LIFE, n. plu lives. See Live.
1. In a general sense, that state of animals and plants, or of an organized being, in which its natural functions and motions are performed, or in which its organs are capable of performing their functions. A tree is not destitute of life in winter, when the functions of its organs are suspended nor man during a swoon or syncope nor strictly birds, quadrupeds or serpents during their torpitude in winter. They are not strictly dead, till the functions of their organs are incapable of being renewed.
2. In animals, animation vitality and in man, that state of being in which the soul and body are united.
He entreated me not to take his life.
3. In plants, the state in which they grow or are capable of growth, by means of the circulation of the sap. The life of an oak may be two, three, or four hundred years.
4. The present state of existence the time from birth to death. The life of man seldom exceeds seventy years.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. 1 Corinthians 15 .
5. Manner of living conduct deportment, in regard to morals.
I will teach my family to lead good lives.
6. Condition course of living, in regard to happiness and misery. We say, a man's life has been a series of prosperity, or misfortune.
7. Blood, the supposed vehicle of animation.
And the warm life came issuing through the wound.
8. Animals in general animal being.
Full nature swarms with life.
9. System of animal nature.
Lives through all life.
10. Spirit animation briskness vivacity resolution.
They have no notion of life and fire in fancy and words.
11. The living form real person or state in opposition to a copy as, a picture is taken from the life a description from the life.
12. Exact resemblance with to, before life.
His portrait is draw to the life.
13. General state of man, or of social manners as the studies and arts that polish life.
14. Condition rank in society as high life and low life.
15.Common occurrences course of things human affairs.
But to know that which before us lies in daily life, is the prime wisdom.
16. A person a living being usually or always, a human being. How many lives were sacrificed during the revolution?
17. Narrative of a past life history of the events of life biographical narration. Johnson wrote the life of Milton, and the lives of other poets.
18. In Scripture, nourishment support of life.
For the tree of the field is man's life. Deuteronomy 20 .
19. The stomach or appetite.
His life abhorreth bread. Job 33 .
20. The enjoyments or blessings of the present life.
Having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. 1 Timothy 4 .
21. Supreme felicity.
To be spiritually minded is life and peace. Romans 8 .
22. Eternal happiness in heaven. Romans 5 .
23. Restoration to life. Romans 5 .
24. The author and giver of supreme felicity.
I am the way, the truth, and the life. John 14 .
25. A quickening, animating and strengthening principle, in a moral sense. John 6 .
26. The state of being in force, or the term for which an instrument has legal operation as the life of an execution.
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Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Life'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/l/life.html.
