Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Means of subsistence or living; as, to earn a livelihood; as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance. 2. (n.) Liveliness; appearance of life.

Multi-Version Concordance Livelihood (3 Occurrences) Luke 15:12 The younger of them said to his father,'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them. (WEB) Deuteronomy 24:6 No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living. (See NIV) Zechariah 13:5 but he will say,'I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.' (See NIV)