βίωσις, -ews, 1), manner of living and acting, way of life : Acts xxvi. 4. (Sir. prolog. 10 διὰ τῆς ἐννόμου Bidceas ; not found in prof. auth.)

βίωσις biōsis 1x

manner of life, Acts 26:4*

**† βίωσις, -εως, ἡ

(< βιόω), [in LXX: Si prol. 12 * ;]

manner of life: Ac 26:4.†

βίωσις. No example of this word in profane sources is as yet forthcoming. With its use in Sirach Pyo/og. 10, διὰ τῆς ἐννόμου βιώσεως as a summary of the practical aim of teachers of the law, we may compare a Jewish inscription of A.D. 60-80 in Ramsay C. and B. ii. p. 650, οὕστινας κ[αὶ] ἢ συναγωγὴ ἐτείμησεν ὅπλῳ ἐπιχρύσῳ διά τε τὴν ἐνάρετον αὐτῶν [βὔωσιν καὶ τὴν π[ρ]ὸς τὴν συναγωγὴν εὔνοιάν τε καὶ σπουδήν. For the poetic βίοτος, see the sepulchral inscription of B.c. 145-16 in A7chiv i, p. 220% ὧν γενόμην εὔνους βίοτον διάγουσ᾽ ἅμα, 22129 σαυτὸν μὴ τρύχειν μνησάμενον βιότου. βιωτικός. . P Tebt 1. 52° (c. b.c. 114) has ἕτερα βιοτικὰ σύμβολα, “‘other business documents,” a good illustration of the NT passages (Lk 213, 1 Cor 635). Still better is P Ryl II. 125) (A.D. 28-9) Kal ἐμοῦ χωρισθέντος εἰς ἀποδημίαν βιωτ[ι]κῶν χάριν, “when I had left home on business concerning my livelihood” (Edd.). E. Rohde, Zz grtech. Roman, Ὁ. 38 f. (Kletne Schriften Il.) has a note on the phrase βιωτικαὶ διηγήσεις, ““ with other phrases from literary Kow employing the word. It occurs often in Vettius Valens. stories of ordinary life,

βίωσις (biōsis) — lifestyle. βίωσις, εως, ἡ, way of life, [NT]: in a Jewish Inscription, ἐνάρετος β. [Refs 1st c.AD+]; ἐν μιᾷ β. ματ᾽ ἀλλήλων [Refs 6th c.AD+]