חָיָה

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root (compare חָוָה, חָיָה); to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive; keep (leave, make) alive, [idiom] certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, ([idiom] God) save (alive, life, lives), [idiom] surely, be whole.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Every occurrence

1. 1 Samuel 2:6 וּמְחַיֶּ֑ה u.me.chai.Yeh · An -ing word: strong action

   Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

2. 1 Samuel 10:24 יְחִ֥י ye.Chi · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

   And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom Jehovah hath chosen, that there is none like him along all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, Long live the king.

3. 1 Samuel 27:9 יְחַיֶּ֖ה ye.chai.Yeh · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

   And David smote the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel; and he returned, and came to Achish.

4. 1 Samuel 27:11 יְחַיֶּ֣ה ye.chai.Yeh · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

   And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell of us, saying, So did David, and so hath been his manner all the while he hath dwelt in the country of the Philistines.

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