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. Hosea 6:2 יְחַיֵּ֖נוּ ye.chai.Ye.nu · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him.

  2. Hosea 6:2 וְנִחְיֶ֥ה ve.nich.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him.

  3. Hosea 14:7 יְחַיּ֥וּ ye.chai.Yu · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the grain, and blossom as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

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