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. Leviticus 18:5 וָחַ֣י va.Chai · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah.

  2. Leviticus 25:35 וָחַ֖י va.Chai · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And if thy brother be waxed poor, and his hand fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: as a stranger and a sojourner shall he live with thee.

  3. Leviticus 25:36 וְחֵ֥י ve.Chei · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    Take thou no interest of him or increase, but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

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