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. Job 7:16 אֶֽחְיֶ֑ה 'ech.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    I loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

  2. Job 14:14 הֲיִ֫חְיֶ֥ה ha.Yich.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.

  3. Job 21:7 יִחְי֑וּ yich.Yu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

  4. Job 33:4 תְּחַיֵּֽנִי׃ te.chai.Ye.ni · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Almighty giveth me life.

  5. Job 36:6 יְחַיֶּ֥ה ye.chai.Yeh · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    He preserveth not the life of the wicked, But giveth to the afflicted their right.

  6. Job 42:16 וַיְחִ֤י vay.Chi · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

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