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)
Every occurrence
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Ecclesiastes 6:3 יִֽחְיֶ֜ה yich.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
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Ecclesiastes 6:6 חָיָ֗ה cha.Yah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?
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Ecclesiastes 7:12 תְּחַיֶּ֥ה te.chai.Yeh · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it.
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Ecclesiastes 11:8 יִחְיֶ֥ה yich.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.