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LIVE, 54
1. To abide to dwell to have settled residence in any place. Where do you live? I live in London. He lives in Philadelphia. He lives in a large house on Second street. The Swiss live on mountains. The Bedouin Arabs live in the dessert.
2. To continue to be permanent not to perish.
Men's evil manners live in brass their virtues we write in water.
3. To be animated to have the vital principle to have the bodily functions in operation, or in a capacity to operate, as respiration, circulation of blood, secretions, &c. applied to animals.
I am Joseph doth my father yet live? Genesis 45 .
4. To have the principles of vegetable life to be in a state in which the organs do or may perform their functions in the circulation of sap and in growth applied to plants. This tree will not live, unless watered it will not live through the winter.
5. To pass life or time in a particular manner, with regard to habits or condition. In what manner does your son live? Does he live according to the dictates of reason and the precepts of religion?
If we act by several broken views, we shall live and die in misery.
6. To continue in life. The way to live long is to be temperate.
7. To live, emphatically to enjoy life to be in a state of happiness.
What greater curse could envious fortune give, than just to die, when I began to live?
8. To feed to subsist to be nourished and supported in life as, horses live on grass or grain fowls live on seeds or insects some kinds of fish live on others carnivorous animals live on flesh.
9. To subsist to be maintained in life to be supported. Many of the clergy are obliged to live on small salaries. All men in health may live by industry with economy, yet some men live by robbery.
10. To remain undestroyed to float not to sink or founder. It must be a good ship that lives at sea in a hurricane.
Nor can our shaken vessels live at sea.
11. To exist to have being.
As I live, saith the Lord - Ezekiel 18 .
12. In Scripture, to be exempt from death, temporal or spiritual.
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. Leviticus 18 .
13. To recover from sickness to have life prolonged.
Thy son liveth. John 4 .
14. To be inwardly quickened, nourished and actuated by divine influence or faith. Galatians 2 .
15. To be greatly refreshed, comforted and animated.
For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 3 .
16. To appear as in life or reality to be manifest in real character.
And all the writer lives in every line.
1. To live with, to dwell or to be a lodger with.
2. To cohabit to have intercourse, as male and female.
LIVE, 54
1. To continue in constantly or habitually as, to live a life of ease.
2. To act habitually in conformity to.
It is not enough to say prayers, unless they live them too.
LIVE, a.
1. Having life having respiration and other organic functions in operation, or in a capacity to operate not dead as a live ox.
2. Having vegetable life as a live plant.
3. Containing fire ignited not extinct as a live coal.
4. Vivid, as color.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
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.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
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.
Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Live'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/l/live.html.
Entry for 'Live'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/l/live.html.
