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. Judges 8:19 הַחֲיִתֶ֣ם ha.cha.yi.Tem · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by all of you

    And he said, They were my brethren, the sons of my mother: as Jehovah liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.

  2. Judges 15:19 וַיֶּ֑חִי vai.Ye.chi · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    But God clave the hollow place that is in Lehi, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore the name thereof was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi, unto this day.

  3. Judges 21:14 חִיּ֔וּ chi.Yu · An action: strong action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

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