Zoopoieo means “make alive” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2227 — zarchi (“Zarchite”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2227 ζωοποιέω (zoopoieo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. zoopoieo (dzo-op-oy-eh'-o) v. 1. to (re-)vitalize {literally or figuratively} It has 19 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include life, quickeneth, quickened, quicken, and alive. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
zoopoieo (dzo-op-oy-eh'-o) v. 1. to (re-)vitalize {literally or figuratively} [from a derivative of G2198 and G4160] KJV: make alive, give life, quicken Root(s): G2198, G4160 See also: G2226
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2227. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to make alive
Usage: ζωο-ποιέω, ῶ [in LXX for חָיָה pi., hi., Jdg.21:14, 4Ki.5:7, Neh.9:6, Job.36:6, Psa.70:20, Ecc.7:12 * ;] __1. in cl. (= ζωογονέω), to produce alive. __2. In LXX and NT, to make alive, cause to live, quicken (DCG, ii, 606a; Cremer, 275): Jhn.5:21 6:53, Rom.4:17 8:11, 1Co.15:45, 2Co.3:6, Gal.3:21. Pass., 1Co.15:22 15:36, 1Pe.3:18.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render zoopoieo, 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 New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old 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 G2227 (ζωοποιέω) appears 8 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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11 indexed usages in New Testament.
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
8 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Benjamin returned to the children of Israel at that time, and the children of Israel gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the daughters of Jabesh-gilead; and they were content.
And it came to pass, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he rent his garments, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to recover a man of his leprosy? consider, however, I pray you, and see that this man seeks an occasion against me.
And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2227.
And Benjamin returned to the children of Israel at that time, and the children of Israel gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the daughters of Jabesh-gilead; and they were content.
And it came to pass, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he rent his garments, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to recover a man of his leprosy? consider, however, I pray you, and see that this man seeks an occasion against me.
And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
He will not by any means save alive the ungodly: And he will grant the judgment of the poor.
What afflictions many and sore hast thou shown me! Yet thou didst turn and quicken me, And broughtest me again from the depths of the earth.
For wisdom in its shadow is as the shadow of silver: And the excellence of the knowledge of wisdom Will give life to him that has it.
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
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Zoopoieo (Strong's G2227) is a Greek word most simply glossed "make alive". zoopoieo (dzo-op-oy-eh'-o) v. 1. to (re-)vitalize {literally or figuratively}
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's G2227 across 14 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2227 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as life, quickeneth, quickened, quicken, alive, and quickening. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 8 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G2227, with linked reader references where each row is available.