Strong's #979: bios (pronounced bee'-os)

a primary word; life, i.e. (literally) the present state of existence; by implication, the means of livelihood:--good, life, living.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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bios

1) life

1a) life extensively

1a1) the period or course of life

1b) that by which life is sustained, resources, wealth, goods

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: a primary word

Citing in TDNT: 2:832, 290

Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

 

Mark 12:44: "she had, even all her living."
Luke 8:14: "riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection."
Luke 8:43: "which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could"
Luke 15:12: "to me. And he divided unto them his living."
Luke 15:30: "son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him"
Luke 21:4: "hath cast in all the living that she had."
1 Timothy 2:2: "a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and"
2 Timothy 2:4: "entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier."
1 Peter 4:3: "For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the"
1 John 2:16: "and the pride of life, is not of the"
1 John 3:17: "whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his"