Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
to live
Usage: δι-άγω [in LXX for עבר hi., etc. ;] __1. to carry over. __2. Of time, to pass: βίον, 1Ti.2:2; absol., to live, before ἐν, Tit.3:3.† (AS)
Diago means “lead life” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1236 — biqa (“plain”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1236 διάγω (diago) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. diago (dee-ag'-o) v. 1. to pass time or life [from G1223 and G71] It has 23 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include life and living. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
diago (dee-ag'-o) v. 1. to pass time or life [from G1223 and G71] KJV: lead life, living Root(s): G1223, G71
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to live
Usage: δι-άγω [in LXX for עבר hi., etc. ;] __1. to carry over. __2. Of time, to pass: βίον, 1Ti.2:2; absol., to live, before ἐν, Tit.3:3.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render diago, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1236 (διάγω) appears 21 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
15 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And he brought forth the people that were in it, and put them under the saw, and under iron harrows, and axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus he did to all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, he made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divinations and auspices, and sold themselves to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him.
6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
So Judas gathered his host, and came into the city of Adullam. And when the seventh day came, they purified themselves, as the custom was, and kept the Sabbath in the same place.
But Dositheus, called the son of Drimylus, by birth a Jew, afterward a renegade from the laws and observances of his country, conveyed Ptolemy away, and made an obscure person lie down in his stead in the tent. It befell this man to receive the fate which was meant for the other.
The husbands of these, in the prime of their youthful vigor, instead of crowns wore halters round their necks; instead of feasting and youthful jollity, spent the rest of their nuptial days in wailings, and saw only the grave at hand.
First 23 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1236.
And he brought forth the people that were in it, and put them under the saw, and under iron harrows, and axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus he did to all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, he made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divinations and auspices, and sold themselves to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him.
And he caused his sons to pass through the fire, and used divination and auspices, and made groves, and multiplied wizards, so as to do that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
And he defiled Topheth which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, constructed for a man to cause his son or his daughter to pass through fire to Molech.
And he sacrificed to their idols in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, and passed his children through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
He also passed his children through the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom; and he divined, and used auspices, and sorceries, and appointed those who had divining spirits, and enchanters, and wrought abundant wickedness before the Lord, to provoke him.
He leads counselors away captive, And maddens the judges of the earth.
He clove the sea, and led them through: He made the waters to stand as in a bottle.
And brought Israel through the midst of it: For his mercy endures forever:
To him who led his people through the wilderness: For his mercy endures forever.
and on the head of every way thou didst set up thy fornications, and didst defile thy beauty, and didst open thy feet to every passerby, and didst multiply thy fornication.
And I will cause you to pass under my rod, and I will bring you in by number.
For they have committed adultery, and blood was in their hands, they committed adultery with their devices, and they passed through the fire to them their children which they bore to me.
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will try them as silver is tried, and I will prove them as gold is proved: they shall call upon my name, and I will hear them, and say, This is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
So Judas gathered his host, and came into the city of Adullam. And when the seventh day came, they purified themselves, as the custom was, and kept the Sabbath in the same place.
But Dositheus, called the son of Drimylus, by birth a Jew, afterward a renegade from the laws and observances of his country, conveyed Ptolemy away, and made an obscure person lie down in his stead in the tent. It befell this man to receive the fate which was meant for the other.
The husbands of these, in the prime of their youthful vigor, instead of crowns wore halters round their necks; instead of feasting and youthful jollity, spent the rest of their nuptial days in wailings, and saw only the grave at hand.
But the Jews, as we just said, instituted a dance, and then gave themselves up to feasting, glad thanksgivings, and psalms.
Brought them through the Red Sea, And led them through much water:
So every carpenter and workmaster, That laboreth night and day: And they that cut and grave seals, And are diligent to make great variety, And give themselves to counterfeit imagery, And watch to finish a work:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1236, grouped by book.
Diago (Strong's G1236) is a Greek word most simply glossed "lead life". diago (dee-ag'-o) v. 1. to pass time or life [from G1223 and G71]
This page currently indexes 23 linked usages for Strong's G1236 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1236 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as life and living. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 15 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1236, with linked reader references where each row is available.