Zoogoneo describes giving, preserving, or being kept alive in the situations shown in Scripture.

The occurrences describe life being given, preserved, or withheld: God is identified as the one who gives life in 1 Timothy 6:13, while Luke 17:33 and Acts 7:19 place the term in statements about preserving life and infants not surviving.

1. Giving or keeping life · dominant

   In 1 Timothy 6:13, the present active participle identifies God in the clause that the APB renders “who gives life to all things.” In Luke 17:33, the future active form occurs in the contrast between seeking to preserve life and losing it; in Acts 7:19, the present passive infinitive occurs in the purpose clause that the APB renders “so they would not survive,” after infants were exposed.

   1 Timothy 6:13Luke 17:33Acts 7:19

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the contexts with “gives life,” “preserve,” and “survive.” Because it is a whole-verse translation, those English expressions show the verse contexts rather than fixed translations of the lemma.