Words the Bible translates as living creature
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ḥayחַיalive, living: having life rather than being dead.
+3 more meanings
- as surely as someone lives: the fixed opening of a sworn oath.
- a living thing: an animal, most often a wild one.
- life: being alive, and the full, flourishing life that God gives.
- zōonζῷονa living creature: any being that is alive, whether an ordinary animal or one of the living beings around God's throne.
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