ζῶν (zon)

ζῶν is an Ancient Greek form of ζάω, meaning “live”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 245 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.11.121: … ὃν ᾔδει μοῦνος, τοῦτο κελεύων· καὶ θνήσκει παρʼ ἐκείνοις. ἦν οὖν τοῦτʼ ἄρʼ ἀληθές· ἢν ᾖ τις σοφὸς ὄντως, καὶ ζῶν ἐστιν ὄνησις, χὤταν μηδὲν ὑπάρχῃ. Γέγονε δὲ κατὰ τὴν πεντηκοστὴν καὶ ἐνάτην Ὀλυμπιάδα. καὶ ἐπέστειλεν ὧδε·

Euripides, Rhesus 374: ζων δίβολόν τʼ ἄκοντα πάλ-

New Testament, Hebrews 4.12: Ζῶν γὰρ ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἐνεργὴς καὶ τομώτερος ὑπὲρ πᾶσαν μάχαιραν δίστομον καὶ διικνούμενος ἄχρι μερισμοῦ ψυχῆς καὶ πνεύματος, ἁρμῶν τε καὶ μυελῶν, καὶ κριτικὸς ἐνθυμήσεων καὶ ἐννοιῶν καρδίας·

All forms of ζάω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.