Romans 14:7:5Rom.14.7.W5TAB
ζῇ
dzê
“lives”
- Transliteration
- DZÊ
- Extended
- DZÊ
- IPA
- /ˈdzɛː/
Meaning by language
- English
- lives
Alphabet Analysis
| Zeta | z — as in daze | |
| Eta | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
- word
DZÊ
- sentence
ou-de-EIS gar hê-MON he-au-TO DZÊ KAI ou-de-EIS he-au-TO a-po-THNÊI-skei
Exegesis
The present indicative verbs zē {ζῇ | zē̂} ‘lives’ and apothnēskei {ἀποθνῄσκει | a-po-thnē̂-skei} ‘dies’ convey gnomic, general truths rather than isolated events. The syntax is tightly parallel: “no one of us to himself lives, and no one to himself dies,” with the second clause omitting hēmōn but clearly implied from the first. This parallelism binds life and death together as two phases of one relational existence, paving the way for verse 8, where both are explicitly linked to belonging to the Lord. In translation, the formal version preserves the close symmetry of “lives to himself” / “dies to himself,” while the dynamic rendering draws out the communal implication by repeating “of us” and using “for ourselves” to clarify that self as ultimate focus is being denied.
Root and etymology
zaōzeta–alpha–omega
“to live, be alive”
In context — Romans 14:7
For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.
About this coordinate
Romans 14:7:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Romans 14:7, so the Greek word ζῇ (dzê) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Rom.14.7.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Rom.14.7.W5.S1) and character.