βίος: Difference between revisions

|txtha=βίου, ὁ (from Homer down);<br /><b class="num">a.</b> [[life]] [[extensively]], i. e. the [[period]] or [[course]] of [[life]] ([[see]] [[below]] and Trench, § xxvii.): ).<br /><b class="num">b.</b> (as [[often]] in Greek writings from [[Hesiod]], Works, 230,575; [[Herodotus]], [[Xenophon]]) [[that]] by [[which]] [[life]] is sustained, [[resources]], [[wealth]] (A. V. [[living]]): WH omits; Tr marginal [[reading]] brackets the [[clause]]); [[goods]]). (For לֶחֶם in SYNONYMS: [[βίος]], [[ζωή]]: [[ζωή]] [[existence]] (having [[death]] as its [[antithesis]]); [[βίος]] the [[period]], [[means]], [[manner]], of [[existence]]. Hence, the [[former]] is [[more]] [[naturally]] used of animals, the [[latter]] of men; cf. zoology, biography. N. T. [[usage]] exalts [[ζωή]], and so tends to [[debase]] [[βίος]]. But [[see]] Lightfoot, Ignatius ad Romans 7 [ET].]