חָיָה

cha.yah · to live

Hebrew · Strong's H2421 · Verb · Sounds like: khaw-yaw' · 282 occurrences

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)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
חָיָה 283 vb. live
Qal 203
1. live
2. be quickened, revive
Pi.
1. preserve alive, let live
2. give life
3. quicken, revive, refresh
Hiph.
1. preserve alive, let live
2. quicken, revive

Every occurrence

  1. Amos 5:4 וִֽחְיֽוּ׃ Vich.Yu · A command to all of you: simple action

    For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live;

  2. Amos 5:6 וִֽחְי֑וּ vich.Yu · A command to all of you: simple action

    Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.

  3. Amos 5:14 תִּֽחְי֑וּ tich.Yu · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by all of you

    Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

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